Thea Farhadian is an interdisciplinary artist and performer based in the Bay Area. She studied Arabic classical music in New York City and in Cairo and holds an MA from San Francisco State in Interdisciplinary Arts. Her work has been seen internationally at venues which include the Meridian Gallery in San Francisco, the Center for Experimental Art and the Aram Kachaturyan Museum in Yerevan, Armenia, the Alternative Museum in New York City, Raumschiff Zitrone in Berlin, the Kultural Sommerfest in Oldenberg, Germany, and at the academic conference, "Islam, Women, the Veil and the West" at the University of Montana. In 2002, she co-founded the Armenian Film Festival in New York City and currently is one of the curators for the film festival in San Francisco.
Variation on Macquam Kurd G, 18:00, 2006
This piece integrates elements of tonality and ornamentation of Arabic classical music, with electronic, processed, and sampled sounds.
ZeroPointTwo (2005)
with Heike Liss
Video, color, silent, 19:00
“ZeroPointTwo,” a video collaboration between Armenian-American sound artist Thea Farhadian and German visual artist Heike Liss presents a poetic and simultaneously disturbing account of a woman having her head shaved. Filmed in real time, the work moves between states of the ordinary consciousness and the metaphoric, cultural, and historical understandings of the subject within the mind of the viewer.