Golnoosh Heshmati

sculptuur , performance , keramiek , installatie , Geluid , Community , Artistiek onderzoek , Archieven

Golnoosh Heshmati is an artist, researcher, and curator based between Rotterdam and Tehran. Her practice merges artistic and curatorial approaches, creating dialogues within fragmented archives of everyday life through listening, text, sound, ceramics, and performance. Living between languages and places, she approaches translation, gaps, and repetition as tools within everyday politics, developing scripts and multichannel sound works.
She co-founded Rabt, a nomadic space dedicated to community engagement focusing on sonic practices, and is a member of Khamoosh, an artistic research community that mediates conservation and restoration by exploring the sonic heritage of Iran.

**A score for a (local) practice, 2025-ongoing** - Sound walk and sonic mix [Research on ways of interpreting and witnessing through score writing] As part of the Listening Biennial 2025, “Score for a local practice” was developed as a shared score. At a time when our bodies and communities are shaped, directly and indirectly, by the echoes of war and violence, sharing experiences becomes an opportunity for collective reflection. The score invites the participants to ask how we listen to the urgencies each locality holds, and how we can approach and hold this complexity together. The sound walk is concluded with a sonic mix that I created from contributions from the participants. Photo by Maryam Katan

**What is Left to Listen to Now? 8-channel installation and performance, MaMA Rotterdam, 2025** - This work is a performance and multi-channel sound installation, part of an ongoing process that has evolved through listening to, unlearning from, and recording the everyday remnants of a building in Tehran. The work consists of a brief yet continuous moment of conversation that transforms into a performance, while the sound installation is composed of discarded pipes that expand into the space, capturing the everyday sounds that the building's structure holds and carries within itself. Photo by Sohrab Kashani

**The Whirring In My Bones Sounding Beyond Structures - Publication - 2025** - This publication, originally written as an MA thesis in Artistic Research, examines how practices of archiving, listening, and unlearning shape relations between bodies, spaces, and communities. Situated within and in dialogue with the lived context of a residential building in Tehran, it brings together theoretical frameworks such as hauntology, archival unlearning, and sonic sensibility with situated observations and artistic experiments. Across three movements, [repeats], [lingers], and [dis-connects], the work traces how everyday routines, inaudible resonances, and collective encounters open alternative ways of sensing, knowing, and making with, proposing listening as both a method and a mode of worlding.

**Grasping a Gasp: A Sonic Memory Installation and performance, West Den Haag Paradise, 2024** - “How can one listen to the body, whether that body is human or the structure of a building?” To explore this question, "Grasping a Gasp: A Sonic Memory" is an installation and performance in which I seek to connect with sonic memories associated with my home. This connection is achieved through delicate attempts to nurture these memories using clay objects that function as failed instruments. During the performance, I simultaneously repeat the same routine while finding subtle ways to escape it.

**Tracing NO3− Digital video, prints, West Den Haag Paradise, 2024** - Tracing NO3− consists of soundscapes from a building's elevator, video footage from the rooftop, and photographed textures of the building's structure itself. Using my voice, I share bodily experience of tracing different aural experiences connected to various parts of the building, with a focus in this video on the rooftop and the navigation associated with it. Some spoken words and specific colours stem from harmful chemical components found in vital and everyday life resources such as air and water, which have been shared bodily experiences/exposures among the residents in the recent decade. Photo: Arianna Cavalensi

Listening To Gouran (collective residency - Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee Radio) — **Listening to Gouran, collective residency , Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee Radio, 2023** - Khamoosh participated in Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee's radio residency in Autumn 2023. During this time, Golnoosh Heshmati, pantea and Khorshid Parsi reflected on and researched previous ongoing projects that initially started from a trip that two members of Khamoosh had made to Gouran village on Qeshm Island, located in the south of Iran. During our one-on-one conversations among Khamoosh members, we have had discussions about places, people, and species. The experience of listening and replaying recorded sounds from Gouran allowed our minds to wander into the depths of various subjects that seemed to reside silently in the backdrop of those sounds. One such topic that fascinated us was the relationship between the wind and the lives of the Gouran community. We discovered that this community, like many other communities close to the sea, follows a distinct calendar, intricately intertwined with their natural surroundings. Continuing these shared experiences, Khamoosh members are collaborating in diverse ways to explore how their work can contribute to the local community of Gouran and revitalise cultural confidence. As part of the radio residency's production, Khamoosh has contributed to a sound glossary. Notably, Sasha and Panjool are currently in the process of designing and developing a glossary that documents the Qeshmi language, specifically focusing on the Gourani dialect. This collaborative effort aims to preserve and showcase the linguistic heritage of the region. This residency finished with a broadcast; a sound collage of different layers of their conversations, questions and intimate moments with the layers of the recorded sounds from Gouran. https://jajajaneeneenee.com/residency/khamoosh/

**Rabt, 2020 - ongoing** - Rabt is a nomadic space dedicated to connecting communities through collective engagement, centered around sonic practices. Initiated in Tehran in 2020 by Golnoosh Heshmati and Sohrab Kashani, Rabt initially functioned as a transdisciplinary and collaborative studio until 2024, when it transitioned to its current nomadic format. Rabt’s small yet growing library and archives are hosted by Tehran Limits, where Rabt’s events in Iran also take place. Image by Maryam Katan - part of asummer workshops facilitated by Aliaskar Abarkas, hosted by Tehran Limits.

Cacophony Stories (Listening Academy) Performative reading, listening session and workshop

Datum: 01-10-2025 t/m 05-10-2025

Locatie: daadgalerie

This performative reading and storytelling presented part of “Cacophony Stories” in the Listening Academy, investigates how the “disturbed ecologies” of personal life, entangled with recent social and political histories, shape our relationships to the structures we inhabit, from buildings to bodies.

https://listeningbiennial.net/academy-editions/cacophony-stories

What is Left to Listen to Now? Installation & performance part of "Mourning a revolution" at MaMA Rotterdam

Datum: 06-08-2025 t/m 29-08-2025

Locatie: MaMA Rotterdam

What is Left to Listen to Now?
8-channel sound installation and performance
2025
Listening to the whirring, crackling, and igniting within the structures we inhabit reveals the interconnections between moments, tracing relentless attempts and failed promises that haunt us and the ghosts we have become. How do these ghosts move, vibrate, and echo through time and space? Through critical listening, how can we unite the echoes of change within ourselves and the structures that shape our existence?

https://thisismama.nl/en/events/general/summerswap-mourning-a-revolution/

Regenerative Archives

Datum: 12-06-2025 t/m 12-06-2025

Locatie: Nieuwe Instituut

https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/pages/programma-symposium-regeneratieve-archieven

Rewire Festival (Context Program)

Datum: 05-04-2025 t/m 05-04-2025

Locatie: Page Not Found

A conversation and listening session on community building and spaces for collaborative listening and social action. Golnoosh Heshmati invites Cristina Cochior, pantea, and Yamen Mekdad to share their ways of working around gathering and utilising digital infrastructures for sharing knowledge, rethinking everyday technology, and addressing the moment's urgency through listening and sounding.

https://www.rewirefestival.nl/artist/conversation--listening-session-resonances-of-chan

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