In conjunction with our current exhibition, TRANSLATIONS, we are delighted to welcome an ensemble sound and poetry performance of writer and translator poupeh missaghi’s Sound Museum, performed by artists and writers Brian Alarcon, Neshat Sadatmansoori and Bo Hwang.
Inaugural performance of “Soghout” by Valerie Hsiung. Set design and production by Shreeya Shrestha.
Doors at 6:30 pm. Performance begins at 7 pm with no intermission. Masks are recommended and will be available.
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Sound Museum (Coffee House Press, October 2024) is a theory fiction, a digressive monologue by a curator and torturer in Iran introducing her latest creation — a museum of torture — to a group of foreign journalists. A satirical archive of individual stories and places within rituals of repression and a system of control. In this performance, Sound Museum wields the archive against itself, disrupting its institutional voice and unraveling in a tumult of poetry, lamentation, and bare sound.
Brian Alarcon is a Colombian-American poet, performance and visual artist from Queens, New York. His poetry crosses the borders between mediums and industries, having performed at art galleries, for media clients such as Versace and Drome Magazine, non-profits like City Artists Corps and Counterpath Press, and he’s received fellowships from the Queer|Art Foundation and the Jack Kerouac School.
Bo Hwang is an artist and writer working with poetry and movement. Recent works include “abalone,” a poetry performance, object, and chapbook (Counterpath 2025), Nightlaps, finalist for Wendy’s Subway’s 2024 Open Reading Period and Squat Practice, finalist for the 2024 Essay Press Chapbook Contest. She has taught movement workshops at The Poetry Project and the Jack Kerouac School. She was born in the U.S. and raised in Indonesia.
Neshat Sadatmansoori is an Iranian writer with a BA in cinema. She is invested in interdisciplinary work and explores themes of nihilism, death, and transgression. She left Tehran to retranslate her country in a new language without censorship, a task she is starting to think is impossible. She is currently an Anne Waldman fellow at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.
poupeh missaghi is a writer, editor, translator (between English and Persian) and educator. Her books include Sound Museum (2024) and trans(re)lating house one (2020), both with Coffee House Press. Her translations include Boys of Love by Ghazi Rabihavi (University of Wisconsin Press, 2024), In the Streets of Tehran by Nila (Bonnier Books, 2023), and I’ll be Strong for You by Nasim Marashi (Astra House, 2021). She is currently an assistant professor of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver, and a faculty mentor at the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR.