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آبـان Aban

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About

Sholeh Asgary (b. Iran) engages performance, interdisciplinary forms, and collective processes to investigate, memorialize, and express the complexities of joy and survival inherent in diasporic and refugee experiences. Her work challenges colonial assumptions about what is heard, proposing new futures through sound.

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October 24, 2026

SLINGSHOT FESTIVAL Durham, North Carolina

Sholeh Asgary opens the Slingshot Festival on Saturday, October 24. Tickets include both days.

Slingshot Festival returns October 23–24 to The Fruit for a weekender centered on electronic music, dance, and adventurous sound.

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November 21, 2026

Anahita II performance at San Jose Museum of Art

Saturday, November 21, 2026

Two performances: one at 2pm and one at 3:15pm.

Free with Museum admission; advance registration is required.

Limited capacity, each performance is capped at 20 tickets.

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August, 2026

Where Ghosts Reside at the End of the World: Choreographies of Steadfastness in the Persistence of Empire, Heather Rastovac-Akbarzadeh

Heather Rastovac-Akbarzadeh (Department of Dance, University of California, Riverside, CA) on Sholeh Asgary's collaborative work in sound, video, and movement with Dena Al-Adeeb, Leyya Mona Tawil, and Daiane Lopes da Silva.

This article belongs to the Special Issue Bodies on Edge in a Globalized World

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September, 2026

What Does Your Code Seek Out? Poetic Computational Fiberworks as a Framework for Digitally Spiritual Textile Adaptations, Mélika S. Hashemi, "Afterimage," UC Press

Sholeh Asgary's "Qanat" is included in this essay as one of nine artists of the Middle Eastern, North African, and South Asian (MENASA) pockets of the diaspora

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Spring, 2027

The Further Triennial - Solo Exhibition of new work, Tahrir by Sholeh Asgary, curated by PJ Gubatina Policarpio

Exhibition at Root Division, San Francisco

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July 10, 2026

a small ocean swallowed at San José Museum of Art

Friday, July 10, 2026 – Sunday, February 14, 2027

curated by Talia Heiman, a small ocean swallowed brings together artworks that embody a sense of ecological entwinement, poetically and experimentally reorienting human relationships to water. The exhibition features work by six intergenerational and international feminist artists: Sholeh Asgary, Patricia Belli, Kiyo Gutierrez, Jessie Homer French, Erin Jane Nelson, and Sunaura Taylor.

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