Peyvand Sadeghian London, United Kingdom

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Award-winning multidisciplinary artist who uses performance, puppetry, and digital media to investigate power, displacement, and cultural inheritance. My research-driven practice is shaped by a neurodivergent perspective and a punk ethos. I create provocative, visceral work that challenges dominant narratives and interrogates the systems that define us.

My practice is an interrogation of power structures, displacement, and the fractures between perception and lived experience. I create multidisciplinary work that turns archives into ammunition and documentation into disruption , challenging the reductive narratives about who we are and how we are defined. Drawing from my life experience as a neurodivergent artist with a mixed Chinese Malaysian and Iranian refugee background and a working-class East London upbringing , my work explores themes of nationalism, liminality, and self-reconstruction.

Rooted in a punk ethos and radical experimentation , my creative process is driven by rigorous research and collaborative energy. I combine performance, puppetry, film, and digital media to craft multilayered, non-linear theatrical experiences. My aesthetic blends a "rough and ready" spirit with sharp, meticulous execution and has been described as "heartfelt, cheekily irreverent and sharply satirical" (Lyn Gardner). I treat theatre as a communal act where audiences become active participants and accomplices, not passive spectators. My performances are designed as laboratories for questions rather than answers , inviting those present to engage, question, and connect in a shared provocation. Ultimately, my practice aims to create art that is unapologetically challenging yet deeply grounded in care , dismantling the artificial distinctions between "high" and "low" culture to make space for the messy, complicated truths of human experience.