Dr Azadeh Fatehrad
London-based artist and curator Dr Azadeh Fatehrad has been awarded the prestigious St John's College Artist Residency 2018. She was the first Iranian to receive a PhD from the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London <https://www.rca.ac.uk/students/azadeh-fatehrad/> , and the first RCA Fine Art student to receive an Unconditional Pass in 2016, a remarkable feat <https://www.rca.ac.uk/students/azadeh-fatehrad/> . Fatehrad’s recent projects include ‘Sohrab Shahid Saless: Exiles’ at Close-Up Film Centre, Goethe-Institut and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2017-18); the ‘Feminist Historiography’ at IASPIS, Stockholm (2016) and the ‘Witness 1979’ at The Showroom, London (2015), among others <http://www.azadehfatehrad.com>. Fatehrad is a member of NECS-European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (Amsterdam) and have outstanding experience in the contemporary art scene, practice-based research and comprehensive pedagogy. She is co-founder of Herstoriographies: The Feminist Media Archive Research Network (HTFMARN) which supports the continued exploration of feminist history and archival material <http://herstoriographies.co.uk> . HTFMARN’s most recent public programme was the sold out event ‘It Takes a Million Years to Be a Woman: Feminist Communities & Living Otherwise’ as part of King’s College’s Arts and Humanities Festival, which explored films such as Allers-Venues (Vivian Ostrovsky, France, 1984, 16 mins), It Takes a Million Years to Be a Woman (Sisters of Jam, Sweden, 2011, 14 mins) and National Unity of Women (Azadeh Fatehrad, Germany, 2016, 20 mins). Fatehrad has also received prestigious awards for my practice-based research such as St John’s College, University of Oxford The 2018 Artist in Residence <https://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/news/years-artist-residence-azadeh-fatehrad/> .
Fatehrad conducts interdisciplinary research, which overlaps discourses such as political science, sociology, representation, photography, moving image and architecture, as well as cultural studies. Her practice ranges from still and moving images, to fictional stories, short films and artist books <https://www.kingston.ac.uk/staff/profile/dr-azadeh-fatehrad-505/>. She works primarily with ‘found footage’ and their socio-historical representation while evaluating their relation to life today. She has conducted diverse projects across Europe and the Middle East, including at the Munich Film Museum; Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main; the International Institute of Social History (IISH), Amsterdam; the Labour Archives/Työväen Arkisto, Helsinki; the Institute for Iranian Contemporary Historical Studies (IICHS), Tehran; and AFDI Archiv für Forschung und Dokumentation Iran Berlin eV, Berlin. She has adopted a cross-cultural approach throughout my historical research, looking at the artistic, social, aesthetic and political implications of existing images <https://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/college-life/art/>. Fatehrad aims have always been to try to introduce the rich collections she has worked with to as wide a public or audience as possible and reference the extraordinary history that lies behind the items alongside her artistic re-creations. Her projects have been positively reviewed by The New York Times, the Financial Times, CNN, Euronews, The Guardian and the British Journal of Photography, among others.
She has been successful in securing a considerable amount of funding and a large number of grants, including Research Funding by the Swedish Art Grants Committee; a Fully-funded Fellowship at the Royal Asiatic Society, London/New York; Research Grant DAAD, Germany; a Bursary for Summer Academy International Artist-Researchers by the University of the Arts, Helsinki; Grants for the Arts by Art Council England; Research Grants by the Iran Heritage Foundation; an Artist Residency Bursary by Nest, the Netherlands; a Research Development Residency Bursary by Imperial College London; and an Artist Residency Scholarship by CAMAC, France.
She is an artist and curator based at the Visual and Material Culture Research Centre, Kingston University London, working primarily with still and moving image in the context of historical representation < https://www.kingston.ac.uk/staff/profile/dr-azadeh-fatehrad-505/> . Her research, artistic and curatorial practice are intertwined around a process of gathering information and generating new imagery in response to archival material she discovers. Her practice ranges from still and moving images to fictional stories, short films and artist books. She has curated diverse public programmes including exhibitions, screenings and workshops as part of her ongoing research, such as ‘Sohrab Shahid Saless: Exiles’ at Close-Up Film Centre, Goethe-Institut and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2017-18); the ‘Feminist Historiography’ at IASPIS, Stockholm (2016) and the ‘Witness 1979’ at The Showroom, London (2015), among others. Fatehrad has presented academic papers at a variety of conferences such as ‘Gesture, Trace and Performance’, 5th Colloquium for Artistic Research, University of the Arts Helsinki; ‘The Captured Everyday Life: Akerman and the Politics of Representation’, Westminster School of Media, London; and ‘The Communal Social and Inter-Political Stage of Curatorial Practice’, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE among others.She is currently co-founder of ‘Herstoriographies: The Feminist Media Archive Research Network’ in London and curator of Beyond the Frame in partnership with Iniva, UAL and the Liverpool Biennial. Her work has been exhibited internationally in London, Vancouver, Amsterdam and Tehran. http://www.azadehfatehrad.com
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