pantea

Multimedia Artist

Photo courtesy of the Artist.

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pantea is an interdisciplinary artist from Iran engaging with narratives of ecological and more-than-human connection.

Her work has incorporated performance, creative nonfiction, film, photography, and music. More recently, pantea is focused on developing a socially engaged practice by exploring possibilities brought about by sound and listening. She is passionate about the environment, plants, and wetlands. pantea is one half of the design group Studio Informal and a member of Khamoosh, an artistic research group dedicated to preserving and archiving Iranian sonic heritage. Her work on the plant Sundew has been published in Plumwood Mountain Journal, with other works performed and exhibited internationally across the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, India, Turkey, and Scotland. More recently, pantea is a 2021 Sonic Acts OVEREXPOSED resident and in 2022 presented the installation Fragile Fragments at CTM Festival in collaboration with Berlin-based duo u-matic & telematique.