Julian Chehirian is a historian of science and artist working on the history of the mind sciences.
Julian Chehirian — Historian of science and artist
A multimedia installation that unsilences the history of the Bulgarian gulag, staged most recently as the Bulgarian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Art Biennale, 2024. With Krasimira Butseva and Lilia Topouzova.
How to Fail at Laboratory Work (2026) is new work in progress. The multimedia installation excavates the origins of attention research through the speculative reconstruction of an 1890s laboratory for experimental psychology. Choreographing psychoacoustic apparatuses, tuning forks, oscillators, tachistoscopes, and other instruments, the installation interrogates the modern techno-scientific regime of attention and unfurls its slicing and dicing of human experience.