Ashkan Sepahvand

Ashkan Sepahvand is an artist, writer, and researcher. He was born in Tehran, Iran, grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and lives and works between London and Berlin. His practice takes time. He is interested in words and bodies. Projects take the form of performances, publications, and regular collaboration with friends. Edited volumes include: "How to Die - Inopiné" (Archive Books, Berlin: 2021), “Odarodle – an imaginary their_story of naturepeoples, 1535–2017” (Schwules Museum*, Berlin: 2018), "Elements for a World: Stone, Wood, Sky, Water, Fire" (Sursock Museum, Beirut: 2016), "Textures of the Anthropocene: Grain, Vapor, Ray" (The MIT Press, Cambridge: 2015), and "seeing studies" (Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern: 2012). Together with Natascha Sadr Haghighian, they founded the institute for incongruous translation, a framework for their shared studies. He is one half of ssssSssssssss, a study-friendship with Virgil B/G Taylor. Currently, he is finishing a practice-based DPhil in Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford.

Ashkan@DAI:

The Kitchen of 4, 5, 6 December 2024 at NAC in Nida, Lithuania.