Artistic practice & approach

Alex Dahdah works across moving image, installation, print, performance and design.

His work considers nationhood and belonging, the systems through which identity takes shape, and the overlap between personal experience and collective memory.

Perceiving Nationhood Passports and Post-Nations examine how belonging is constructed. Broadcast Reversed works through the conventions of television. The language initiative Kelme brings cultural questions into typography, communication and design.

Alongside independent work, Alex collaborates in production design, performance, music-video direction, visual identity and publication design. His educational work spans college teaching, workshops and museum programmes. He also contributes to film selection and arts grant review.

Language, visual communication and technology sit alongside the studio practice. Alex participated in the 2018 Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change, and contributes to the cultural initiative Kelme.