Farah Azrak (b. Damascus, Syria 1986) is a transdisciplinary polyvocal artist, performer, facilitator, and somatic movement and voice practitioner. Her work spans performance making, voice work, video, sound, collage, writing, textile and extends to leading community-based projects and grassroots initiatives. Rooted in somatics and social activism, she explores the body as a site of creative treansformation and regenerative language, with the voice being a force of healing, power, disruption, and deep listening and connection.
Drawing from personal and collective experience, her performances blend raw form with crafted environments, engaging audiences in visceral spaces that question notions of relational dynamics of place, presence, and perception. She loves to engage in creating alternative spaces for collective knowledge creation, regenrative practices and shared visions for liberation.
Farah graduated from Fashion Design in London in 2013, and soon after dived deeper into the body through various schools of dance improvisation, meditation and sensorial education in the UK, France, Canada, and other places. In 2017, she finished her training as a Somatic Movement Practitioner in the Netherlands (ISMETA certified), and she began experimenting with video and collage as portals for the body imaginalis. In 2018, her voice emerged through her somatic practice and since then it has been central to her work.
Farah’s passion for nature and ecology guides her in creating immersive environments that reflect deep interlacing of systems, and the visceral need to rebuild relationship with the natural world and modes of perception and listening.
Alongside her artistic practice, Farah is a psychosocial support facilitator and somatic practitioner working with individuals and different groups of people in various creative and therapeutic support contexts, including disenfranchized communities using body-based practices and expressive arts.
Farah’s collage and video works were exhibited in Yerevan, London, Paris, and Beirut. In 2021, she directed and produced her first research project 33 VERTEBRAE — an interactive durational performance of 33 hours that was awarded by Culture Resource for production grants. Later, she co-directed CIRCUIT — an immersive site-specific vocal performance at the Dome experimental theatre at Rachid Karame Exhibition Park in Lebanon. In 2022, she curated and performed in DE-COMPOSING VOICE in collaboration with Beirut Synth Center and Beirut Art Center. In 2023, she presented MY SKIN, MY EAR, an immersive live sound experience that was commissioned by Capacities of People, Capacity of City exhibition in Beirut. In 2024, she was invited to Oslo, Norway by Masahat Festival as a resident artist to lead a 5 weeks project, SONGS OF ANEMONE. Later in 2025, while she traveled to many places to teach and continue her learning and research, she dived into sound art while experimenting with the extended electronic voice during her Prozess residency in Bern Switzerland, and later performing at the international music festival Beirut & Beyond.
Farah also creates sound pieces in collaboration with other artists, for live performance and for the radio, as well as performing sound poetry and spoken word at poetry events. She also co-founded BULABAN social circus for refugee children in Lebanon as an alternative education program of play and radical immagination. She was also active in initiating several grassroots projects that are centered around the arts and performance making serving local communitites and marginalized group of people in Lebanon.