Jahan Xanlü

Jahan Xanlü is a Swiss-Iranian-Central Asian writer and artist, currently based in Naarm. Building on his work in linguistics, she uses a linguistic lens to explore ancient tradition and mythologies and merge them with modern contexts to dream of futures that engage with the degrading ecological realities of the present.

Jahan typically mixes Central Asian instrumentation with industrial and doom metal motives within traditional improvisational frameworks. She advocates within the internationalist community radio movement, featuring and hosting shows on HKCR, 3CR…but in contrast he often works with found objects (physically or digitally) as a means of representing the locale.