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Afra Khan
bangaloREsident-Expanded@C. Rockefeller Center

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In the sphere of artistic pursuits, Afra Khan practices as an electronic music producer, live controllerist/DJ and visual artist engaging primarily in audio-visual art + digitally manipulated architectural / abstract photography.

With a majority of her childhood spent in Saudi Arabia and being an ardent student of Kabbalistic philosophy, she finds the notions of conformity, belonging and identity very archaic ideas in the context of planetary futurism.

Her interest as a new media artist is to converge all the skills and knowledge she has collected on her Earth journey and relay them into artistic experiences that lie at the intersection of science and technology.

In 2019 she was curated under the V I S I B I L I T Y banner in the premier electronic music exhibition - Expo Electro - at the Philharmonie de Paris, showcased alongside visual works of legendary electronic musicians like Daft Punk and Kraftwerk. Her audio-visual work titled ‘SATYRNUS - The Wise Prince’ can be found archived in the Sound and Moving Image catalogue at the British Library, U.K.

As an artist, she believes that audio-visual art is one of the most powerful mediums of our time and that all artists share the responsibility of creating work that transforms the experience of the viewer by offering hope, inspiration and a means toward evolution.

To check her creative pursuits, visit
Instagram: @anakhemia
Youtube: @ANAKHEMIA

While at C. Rockefeller Center for Contemporary Arts, Dresden, Afra will work on The RetroReceiver.

Have you ever experienced a premonition?
A gut feeling?
A foretelling dream?
What is its basis?
In technical speak, it is your future communicating with your present.
But, what if your future can communicate with your past?


While the idea that something can be present in two places at the same time might be absurd to many of us, this happens all the time in the quantum world. The RetroReceiver art project plays on the very nature of Quantum Mechanics - weird and wonderful!

This residency is in partnership with the City of Dresden.

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