Elham Puriya Mehr Elham Puriya Mehr
Elham Puriya Mehr (Iran-Canada) is an independent curator and lecturer based in Vancouver, on the Unceded Territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. She received her BA and MA from Tehran University of Art, her Ph.D. in Art Research from Alzahra University, and her Postdoctoral at Advanced Practice from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research focuses on the potentiality of ‘learning’ in social spaces that generate new vocabularies, new practices, and new knowledge through the possibility of ‘events.’
Having worked internationally as an educator, curator, and writer over the past years, she has lectured in conferences, symposiums and talks. She is co-founder of Empty Space Studio, a non-profit nomadic platform based in Tehran and Vancouver.
In 2015, Elham Puriya Mehr participated in the Crisis of History exhibition series at Framer Framed, of which she curated the third edition Beyond History together with the Dutch curator Robert Kluijver. Part of the exhibition was the project Voice-over Noord, a continuation of her earlier project My Own Privacy Policy (Sanandaj, Kurdestan, Iran, 2014).
Exhibitions
Exhibition: Crisis of History #3 - Beyond History
Curated by Robert Kluiver and Elham Puriyamehr
Agenda
Coffee Tastes Like Coffee: Coffee Ritual and Book Launch of Cocuyo
A coffee tasting workshop and the book launch of Cocuyo, by artists Ana Tomimori and Carlos Felipe Guzmán of Proyecto Cocuyo at Werkplaats Molenwijk
