Born in Teheran and having traveled extensively, Karen Nikgols’ work mixes cultural expressions and identities in an alchemical meltdown to find new ways of expression. Contemporary dance, choreography, raves, street cultures, new age and occultism all play into the body of work, investigating how to break down the boundaries between these. As a curator Karen Nikgol uses these skills in performance based works, creating direction and choreography on stage and in galleries that involve artists, dancers, martial arts practitioners, amateurs and writers, intertwining their different professions into a new mythical structure or narrative. The video works also incorporate performance documentations to produce further narratives, creating an abstraction of the original source material.