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, presented as the Bulgarian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, 2024. With Krasimira Butseva and Lilia Topouzova, curated by Vasil Vladimirov.
How to Fail at Laboratory Work (2026) is a multimedia installation currently in development by Julian Chehirian, in collaboration with D. Graham Burnett. The work excavates the origins of attention research through a reconstructed 1890s experimental psychology laboratory. Choreographing a reconstructed late-19th century psychoacoustic apparatus, tuning forks, oscillators, tachistoscopes, and arrays of analog instruments, the installation interrogates the modern scientific regime of attention and its impulse to parse perception into ever-finer measurable units.