Diane Mahín ()

Diane Mahín is a Dutch-Iranian performance maker and sociologist who creates visceral, performative worlds shaped by sound and image. Her work dissects the body as a social artifact: fleshy, noisy, and molded by social absurdities. A single sound from the body can open an entire world. Diane follows this sound, tears it apart, and reassembles it into theatrical codes drawn from the learned behaviors of an unbearable society. The strange becomes eerily familiar. In that disarming recognition, audiences encounter something disturbingly intimate: themselves, shaped by a brutal world.