Krista and Rashin have been collaborating on sound and video installations since 2006. Below is a selection of their work together.

A Father’s Lullaby, 2019

exhibited at:

project description:

A Father’s Lullaby is a multi-year, research-based community co-creation initiative that began in 2015. It interrogates racial bias and structural racism and acknowledges the role of media and technology in perpetuating this challenge as well as their potential to disrupt historical patterns. A Father’s Lullaby aims to be a poetic movement where art and technology mobilize a plethora of voices while utilizing public places and virtual spaces to ignite a more inclusive dialogue to effect social change, democratizing access to technology and storytelling through community co-creation. A Father’s Lullaby materializes in a vast array of creative and public engagement opportunities, including an ongoing series of public interventions, immersive, interactive, and participatory installations, incubation labs, tech workshops, and a pioneering XR co-creation pedagogy at Emerson College launched in Spring of 2020.

Selected by Prix Ars Electronica for the 2021 Award of Distinction in the Digital Musics category

We Break Down Ourselves, 2012

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Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY

project description:

Exhibited at the Migrations group exhibition at Proteus Gowanus, a gallery at the intersection of art, citizen science and local ecology archives, We Break Down Ourselves evokes the strains of a future nostalgia that clings with evangelical fervor to the waste products and animal remains of a mythical past --the current present-- where biodiversity and limitless forms of object production are still living realities. Here, as has been the case so many times in the past, the female body becomes the site on which these holy objects of strange desire are ritualized, revealed, discarded, and cast off.The title of this 4-way collaboration comes from a line in Rainer Maria Rilke’s eighth “Duino Elegy”: 

"It fills us. We arrange it. It breaks down. We rearrange it, then break down ourselves." -Rainer Maria Rilke

With text by Beatrice Marovich and sculptural objects by Kathy Dragomer 

Images by Krista Dragomer and Rashin Fahandej, text by Beatrice Marovich.

Images by Krista Dragomer and Rashin Fahandej, text by Beatrice Marovich.

Detail of sculptural images by Kathy Dragomer.

Detail of sculptural images by Kathy Dragomer.

Installation view of We Break Down Ourselves in the exhibition of "Future Migrations" at Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn New York.

Installation view of We Break Down Ourselves in the exhibition of "Future Migrations" at Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn New York.

160 Years of Pressure, 2006-2011

exhibited/screened at:

New York, Boston, San Francisco, Providence, Vancouver

project description:

Iran, Badasht, north of Tehran – 95 miles

United States, Seneca Falls, north of New York – 270 miles

1848, a woman in Iran by the name of Tahirih unveiled her face in a group of men in a proclamation of undeniable equality.

1848, a group of women in the United States, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mary Ann M’Clintock, Martha Coffin Wright, and Jane Hunt met for tea and began the women’s suffrage movement.

160 Years of Pressure parallels that wavelike motion now set in the intimate, personal space of one woman. The sound, video, drawings, and objects that comprise the project, in total, explore isolated moments of self-reflection, repulsion, confusion, outrage, and desire, and the building pressure of that tumult.  It is our response to what has or has not taken place since the circumstances in 1848.