Ashkan Sepahvand is a writer, translator, and researcher. His interests trace associations from within the histories of somatics, the sensory, transformation, pedagogy, utopia, queerness, collectivity, ritual, performance, and the self. He studied art history at Vassar College and philosophy at the European Graduate School. Currently, he is a research associate for the Anthropocene Project at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW). His work and writings have been presented at dOCUMENTA (13), Former West, Tanz im August, Sharjah Biennial X, Homeworks 5, Jerusalem Show V, Qalandiya International, Kunsthaus Bregenz, and Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA).