41 Alleys is a site-specific radio project that reactivates a dormant frequency adjacent to Golden Star Radio, the first Chinese-language station in North America once located at 850 Grant Avenue, where a ghost sign remains. It draws from stories of Golden Star broadcasters embedding messages from immigrants to loved ones overseas. Field recordings from Chinatown’s 41 alleys comprise a sonic composition with messages of search and safety. Radios installed throughout Wentworth Alley amplify these transmissions, collapsing the intimate space of radio with Chinatown’s shared geography. Sound moves through this network, channeling the shadow-selves and coded identities that shape legacies of survival. 41 Alleys asserts radio as alterity tech, where frequencies encode resistance to fascism, xenophobia, and genocidal border regimes. The print serves as both archive and template for future activation. 41 Alleys flexes the power of ‘alternate’ being, where shadow selves far from being hidden, are precisely where we transmit.​​

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About Sholeh Asgary

Sholeh Asgary (b. Iran) engages performance, interdisciplinary forms, and collective processes to investigate, memorialize, and express the complexities of joy and survival inherent in diasporic and refugee experiences. Sholeh’s primary material and deepest conceptual concern is sound. Through site-specific installations, sound sculptures, performance, archival projects, and collective-collaborations, her work challenges colonial assumptions about what is heard, proposing new futures through sound. 

 

Sholeh's debut EP, "آبـان (Aban)," was released to critical acclaim with Sming Sming Books and Crystalline Morphologies. Her work is featured internationally, including in SONDUKE and Art in America's New Talent Issue. A solo exhibition is included in the 2024-25 Pacific Standard Time-Getty initiative, "Atmosphere of Sound." She is a 2023 YBCA BAN9 artist and Artadia finalist. Her work has been presented by institutions including Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Sotheby’s, ARoS Kunstmuseum, The Lab, and Stanford University. Sholeh’s Audio Archive Booth is short-listed for a Creative Capital grant. 

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Sholeh Asgary融合表演、跨學科的模式和集體過程，來探索、紀念和表達異鄉人和難民所經歷複雜的快樂和求生本能。Sholeh最基本的材料和最深層的概念關注是聲音。透過場地特定的裝置、聲音雕塑、表演、檔案和集體合作，她的作品挑戰殖民地時期所聽到的固有假設，透過聲音提出新的未來。

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Sholeh的首隻唱片由Sming Sming Books和Crystalline Morphologies出版，獲得一致好評。她的作品在國際間展出，包括中東雜誌SONDUKE和年度專題報告Art in America's New Talent Issue。她的個人展覽”聲音的氛圍”，被納入2024-2025太平洋標準時間- Getty倡議展覽。Sholeh是2023年YBCA BAN9介紹的藝術家之一，亦是Artadia的決賽選手。波特蘭當代藝術學院、國際知名藝術經銷商Sotheby’s、丹麥藝術博物館ARoS Kunstmuseum、The Lab和史丹福大學都曾展出她的作品。Sholeh的音頻檔案室入圍”創意資本”的資助項目。