Farah Azrak (b. Damascus, Syria 1986) is a transdisciplinary polyvocal artist, performer, facilitator, and somatic movement and voice practitioner. Her work spans performance making, voice, video, sound, collage, and extends to community-based projects and grassroots initiatives. Rooted in somatics and social engagement, she explores the body as a site of transformation, while the voice being a force of healing, disruption, and connection.
Drawing from personal and collective experiences, her performances blend raw form with crafted environments, engaging audiences in visceral experiences that question notions of relational dynamics of place, presence, and perception - and the lack thereof. She loves to engage in creating alternative spaces of collective knowledge creation, regenrative practices and shared visions for liberation.
Farah graduated from Fashion Design in London in 2013, and soon after dived deeper into the body through various schools of dance improvisation and sensorial education in the UK, France, Canada, and other places. In 2017, she finished her training as a Somatic Movement Practitioner in the Netherlands (ISMETA certified), and she began experimenting with video and collage as portals for the body imaginalis. In 2018, her voice emerged through her somatic practice and since then it has been central to her work.
Farah’s passion for ecology guides her in creating immersive environments that reflect the deep enmeshments of systems, and the visceral need to rebuild relationship with the natural world.
Alongside her artistic practice, Farah is a psychosocial support facilitator and somatic practitioner working with individuals and different groups of people, including disenfranchized communities using body-based practices and expressive arts.
Farah’s collage and video works were exhibited in Yerevan, London, Paris, and Beirut. In 2021, she directed and produced her first research project 33 VERTEBRAE — an interactive durational performance of 33 hours that was awarded by Culture Resource for production grants. Later, she co-directed CIRCUIT — an immersive site-specific vocal performance at the Dome experimental theatre at Rachid Karame Exhibition Park. In 2022, she curated and performed in DE-COMPOSING VOICE in collaboration with Beirut Synth Center and Beirut Art Center. In 2023, she presented MY SKIN, MY EAR, an immersive live sound experience that was commissioned by Capacities of People, Capacity of City exhibition in Beirut. In 2024, she was invited to Oslo, Norway by Masahat Festival as a resident artist to lead a 5 weeks project, SONGS OF ANEMONE.
Farah also creates sound pieces and performs live with voice and electronics, among other on-going audio-visual projects, collaborations, and collective street performances. She co-founded BULABAN social circus for refugee children in Lebanon as an alternative education program of play and radical immagination. She was also active in initiating several grassroots projects that are centered around expressive arts and performance making serving local communitites and marginalized group of people.