“In exhibitions, we are usually eluded by the processes - what is unseen, unheard – and here, specifically, the ground that is not stepped on, symbolized by a part of the body amputated before it could even become whole. A transgenerational diaspora that, articulated with the movement for women’s liberation and empowerment in Iran, allows for the construction of a path that transcends the creator’s individuality and extends to her community: a community dispersed, excluded, dismembered across
the world.
Despite the devastating, oppressive, and violent undertone of Albayati’s body of work, there is also lightness and depth, another sense of time, if we allow it…where we are
overwhelmed by powerful emotions, that do not suffocate, but move us. When they try to steal our hope, the answer is to keep dreaming.” - from What Escapes Us, curator text
شکار آزادی | SHEKĀRE ĀZADI
Roxanna Albayati
Spring 2025 Dentro Gallery, Porto
Curated by Susana Chiocca
Supported by Arts Council UK & Help Musicians
Looking back on my first solo exhibition earlier this year, beyond grateful to have had beautiful collaborators involved 🫶
Animation | Argah
Additional videography | Soraya S & Erfaan Mahmoodi
Featuring | Šur for cello and live electronics by Roxanna Albayati and Marat Ingeldeev
Additional voice artists | Rebecca Moradalizadeh & Zora Za
@na_dentro@rebeccamoradalizadeh@mrttrml@erfaanzarelli
🎥🙏 @yasminemoradalizadeh
تولد دوباره | Tavalode Dobāre
29th November ~ 7:30 Doors ~ Kunstraum, London
We welcome you to witness the first public showing of Roxanna Albayati’s latest work. On 29th November, a special offering will take place ~ a live music performance alongside audiovisuals, with music collaborators Salvo Bella & Nicole Bettencourt Coelho.
Tickets are limited, with early bird options now available ~ online from £7 / OTD £10 ~ link in bio 🖤
Tavalode Dobāre (Reborn) is a story of a journey, as we follow Setareh, a wandering soul, embodying different forms through layers of temporality & consciousness. From dream-state stars to the realm of reality, Setareh finds herself following a spiritual wound, until left with a melancholic hope in human form.
Through a transcultural use of Sicilian, Persian & Sufi poetry, music & ritual practice, this audiovisual work nestles an individual’s grief within a collective pain & longing for clarity.
Live Collaborators: Salvo Bella & Nicole Bettencourt Coelho
Project Manager: Neath Champion-Shorr
Support: @aceagrams@kunstraumlondon@miloagriproduction@abastan.community
Graphics: Roxanna
Audio: Salvo (guitar) & Roxanna (voice/electronics)
Beyond excited to finally share that I'm joining a group of 10 wonderful musicians on @soundandmusicuk In Motion programme🔥
Over the next 18 months I'll be producing work dedicated to music traditions and voices which have been left in the past, or run the risk of being lost ~~~
So grateful to have the support and resources of the Sound & Music team 🙏
Link in bio to a full interview about my work 🤍
#SoundandMusic #InMotion2026 #FundedbyPRSF
📸 @directordero
💫 Three nights of experimental improvisation with Dirar Kalash & Friends in May.
Dirar Kalash, extraordinary Palestinian sound artist known for boundary-pushing sonic work and collaborations with artists like Nicolas Jaar, invites:
MAY 13 - BARBIE MUKODA - Flautist and improvised blending classical and experimental sound worlds through tone and silence.
MAY 22 - MARYSIA OSU - Harpist, producer, and composer who blends classical, ambient, and electronic music.
MAY 27 - ROXANNA ALBAYATI - Cellist & artist blending experimental music with cross-cultural improvisation and multimedia performance.
@dirarkalash@barbie.flutes@marysia_osu@roxhsana
Studio 12 is an intimate art space with a custom sound system & cocktail bar in Camberwell, London. It’s dedicated to art, music, poetry and film, rooted in transnational solidarities.
Tickets link in bio 🌹
dirarxstudio12.eventbrite.co.uk
World is moving pretty fast these days. Find me and my musical offerings this week in London, both appropriate for our sensitive times ~
Thurs 30th +prayer+
A sonic meditation ahead of the Scorpio full moon 🌑 deep dive where strings and voices meets live processing and EMF frequencies with my beautiful collaborators @nmbc & @kannukene
Fri 1st ~ mutual aid fundraiser for Iran
Music sets, art and poetry, a much needed gathering. ❤️🩹
@niafekrix@qall@bahar0bahr
Event details in stories/reposts
Footage from Armenia’s Syunik region ~ honouring the Armenian genocide remembrance day last week 🤍
I don’t often post personal photos, but I can’t help but share these moments.
این نیز بگذره ~ this too shall pass
Throughout this past year, whilst the world has been upturning, this phrase saved us. Not only during witnessing the hard moments, but in the ability to savour and enjoy planning something so full of joy and love. The day itself was the same, an outpouring of love, where every detail had a meaning and purpose, deserving full presence. To have a day in my family home, totally transformed by my parents, surrounded by family & friends, was something too special to explain. As someone dear said, it wasn’t just a wedding, it was something that resonated deeper through our families’ units, and I think we are still yet to understand how exactly…
Celebrate love, dance in bizzare moments, allow a space for people to express whats right for them without judgment.
Beyond grateful to everyone who made our wedding unique 🙏 huge gratitude to my maman’s inner child who decorated to her heart’s content, and to her adult self for managing everything ❤️
Photos from my incredibile, high functioning production team of friends, and Reza jan (who only those present will understand his specific brilliance).
Roxanna AlBayati, Seán Being, Dirar Kalash, Oliver Turvey, and Caius Williams convene together for the first time as a string quartet (+1).
The evening will unfold across a series of movements.
7:30 Saturday 21.3
39a Loughborough Road
London SW9 7TB
Introducing Roxanna Albayati - who will be with us tomorrow, in our exploration of cultural and traditional roots. She’ll be playing gheychak, an ancient instrument from folk and classical Persian music, known for its melancholic sonority, able to express deeply rooted emotions.
14:00 dastgāhHETK – iraani dastgāh muusika töötuba / Iranian dastgāh music workshop by Roxanna Albayati
18:00 pärimusHETK – pärimusimprovisatsiooni kontsert / folk improvisation concert by Roxanna Albayati, Andro Manzoni, Sofia Filippou & Kristjan Kannukene
Roxanna is an Iranian-Iraqi interdisciplinary artist, researcher and music educator. Driven by embodied artistic research, her transcultural practice centres around combining experimental music with multilingual art forms and audio-visuals, where her music merges cross-cultural improvisation with Persian traditional music and the physicality of performance. Roxanna explores the conscious/subconscious and self/other, interrogating their interplay internally, spiritually & materially, whilst considering this through the perspective of Orientalist constructions and female place in society, fascinated by process and natural evolution of discovery.
@roxhsana
“When they try to steal our hope, the answer is to keep dreaming” - from Susana Chiocca‘s curator text from SHEKĀRE ĀZĀDI, spring 2025 in Porto
Every time I develop this body of work, I say to it
‘that’s it, we’re done…’
genuinely believing I can leave it behind, because it’s so painful.
The last time, I created a room filled with my mother’s voice - her story, my story, every Iranian women’s story. The night before I left Porto, I set up the exhibition space alone, just to listen to it one final time.
I cried, then laughed, then shut the space down.
If only it was that easy to shut these feelings down.
So of course, this work will always return.
And it’s always dedicated to the women of Iran.
Displaced @displaced.concerts is back tomorrow night ~ Friday 12th December ~ at @referencepoint180
After some months away, we’re returning with a night to mark our one year anniversary, opening with dialogue between artists and audience, a moment to feel free with words and reflections: something which happens so beautifully every event. This time, we’re dedicating more space for it. Followed by a line up which I’m personally more than impatient to play with.
Each event delves into my footage archive, a place for my nonsounding expression. This time, we’re featuring the incredible red cliffs at the Noravank Monestary in Armenia, when the sun kissed her surface at sunrise last summer. The 4am trip to catch the right light was worth it. Armenia has taught me too much about self preservation and discovery ~ it generates enough energy which cannot be contained in one place, and so your energy becomes dis-placed, left in various corners of the world.
Join us tomorrow for what some have named as an ‘internal shower for the soul’ ~ tickets are going, link in bio🕊️
@displaced.concerts graphics by @tasallatabasom ❤️
