WE:Shape

ACTIVITY ARCHIVE

Music &
Human Rights Cluster
(2023)

Vienna Master of Arts in Applied Human Rights (University of Applied Arts Vienna)

Position: Concept, Curation, Moderation

Art & Security
Workshop (2025)

Rethinking Protection, Power & Expression

Position: Concept co-developer, co-moderation

Golnar Shahyar, as a representative of WE:Shape has been part of the artistic board of Kultursommer Wien 2020 & 2021 to put together a festival that involves almost 2000 artists of the Viennese performance and literature scene by creating open-air performance opportunities.

Point Shard, a podcast produced by Rojin Sharafi, is about different social issues that have concerned me recently, such as a representation of marginalized communities in multicultural societies and white institutional space, racialized emotional labor, gender binaries, and ethnocide within the music ecosystem and in musical language.

"Wiener Stimmen" in Musikverein Wien" (2022)

A performance project in cooperation between Brunnenpassage & Wiener Musikverein

Position: Concept co-development

!!DON'T YOU "WORLD" ME!!

Mechanisms of Exclusion and Inclusion in contemporary music and sound art with Golnar Shahyar (WE:Shape), Bernhard Günte (of Wien Modern), Rosa Reitsamer and Christine Schörkhuber!

Dissonant Counter Point - On the democratisation of music and musical practices (2022)

A Podium Discussion in cooreation with Wiener Musikverein & D/Arts

Position: Co-curator & Podium Guest

Akademie Zweite Moderne:
Gipfeltreffen – Strategien der Sichtbarkeit

A Wiener Festwochen Event in cooperation with D-Arts

Position: Moderation

Niemand kann irgendwem eine Stimme geben

Golnar Shahyar was interviewed by VAN editor Merle Krafeld about the musicality of different languages and the diversification of the music business.

Netzwerk Junge Ohren!

Golnar Shahyar (WE:Shape) and Elisa Erkelenz (Outernational) will have a conversation about transcultural musical practices and ways to approach EDI (Equity, Diversity, Inclusion) in music institutions in Germany