Pegah Tabassinejad is an interdisciplinary artist and educator originally from Iran, currently living and working on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. Tabassinejad’s practice primarily revolves around the creation of digital and live performances, films, and video installations. Her work interrogates the intersections of digital and surveillance culture with identity; the dynamics of virtual and physical presences and absences; and the forces that shape the movement and perception of marginalized and female bodies in both private and public spaces.
Her projects have been exhibited locally and internationally at venues and festivals such as VIFF-Signals, IDFA DocLab, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, VIVO Media Arts, and Gallery Gachet. Her latest eight-channel video installation, Entropic Fields of Displacement, received the prestigious IDFA Award for Digital Storytelling.
