Hoda Siahtiri is an audiovisual performance artist and researcher based in Brussels. Her work centres on embodied memory, ancestral vocal traditions, and ceremonial heritage. Through her PhD research Singing The Silences, she developed her voice alongside the lineage of Bakhtiari women from western Iran, paving a path of collective healing through remembrance and self transformation.
Hoda’s performances, short films, audiovisual exhibitions, and ceremonies have been presented at festivals and cultural venues across Belgium and Europe.
She is a multidisciplinary artist with a professional background in cinema and theatre, having spent a decade in Tehran as a performing artist, filmmaker, scriptwriter, and editor. Over the past eleven years in Brussels, she has consolidated her practice within a network of artists, cultural institutions, and a growing audience.
After completing a master’s in documentary filmmaking (Docnomads) at LUCA School of Arts and further specialization in performance at a.pass, Hoda established her artistic career as a performer, vocalist, videographer, and dramaturge. Her practice engages storytelling to mediate silenced voices through audiovisual andperformance media.
‘Speaking nearby’ her ancestral vocal tradition of Bakhtiari women lament singing, she embarked and fulfilled a journey of an artistic Ph.D research at University of Antwerp & Sint Lucas Antwerp. Within this trajectory she developed a methodology of vocal practice based on indigenous ceremonial knowledge. Deeply investedin themes of displacement, grief, the feminine body, ancestral knowledge, and decolonial healing, Hoda’s creations revolve around diverse demonstrations of the ceremonial. Centered on embodiment, her work examines not only thematic concerns but also aesthetic and methodological approaches to storytelling.
