Dania
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Dania Shihab (Baghdad, 1982) is a transnational artist, musician, curator and emergency doctor based in Barcelona. She holds a bachelor of medicine / bachelor of surgery degree from the University of Tasmania (2006) and holds an associateship in advanced emergency medicine from the Australia College for Emergency Medicine (2024). She divides her time between Spain and the most remote corners of Australia, where she works as an emergency doctor.
Her artistic practice explores the complex terrain of migration, interstitial identity, and the shifting boundaries of state sovereignty from the perspective of a forced migrant. Currently she is examining war torn ecologies through the medium of sound. She has performed in venues such as Cafe Oto and La Casa Encendida, CCCB and at festivals including Sónar, Sonic Acts, Mira and Loop Festival. She was selected as an artist for the SHAPE+ audiovisual arts platform, has completed a residency at Providenza (France), and was a guest composer EMS (Sweden) and has been selected as an artist for the main residency program at La Becque (Switzerland) 2026. She has guest lectured at Bard (NYC) and the Royal College of Music (Stockholm). Shihab is the founder and director of the experimental platform Paralaxe Editions, and her music has appeared on labels such as Geographic North, Ecstatic, Somewhere Press, Superpang, OOH-sounds, and Longform Editions.