Publications

This page brings together books, edited journals, artistic research, essays and conversations. Entries are grouped by form so that publications can be read as part of Noori’s wider artistic and editorial practice.

Books and long-form research

Cover of Three or Four Irrelevant Stories: Art and Hyper-politics

Three or Four Irrelevant Stories: Art and Hyper-politics. Konstfack Collection, 2021. Doctoral research on microhistory, political enclosure and artistic methods of historical narration. Download PDF.

Cover of Accessing Utopia

Accessing Utopia. Artist publication. Download PDF.

Cover of Professor Balthazar and a Monument to the Invisible Citizen

Professor Balthazar and a Monument to the Invisible Citizen. Artist publication. Download PDF.

Cover of The Life of an Itinerant through a Pinhole

The Life of an Itinerant through a Pinhole. Artist publication. Download PDF.

Cover of The Black Eyes of Bruce Lee

The Black Eyes of Bruce Lee. Artist publication. Download PDF.

Edited journals and platforms

VIS journal issue Brieftopia

Brieftopia. Edited issue, VIS: Nordic Journal for Artistic Research. Read the issue.

VIS journal issue Contemporary Ar(t)chaeology

Contemporary Ar(t)chaeology. Edited issue, VIS: Nordic Journal for Artistic Research. Read the issue.

VIS Nordic Journal for Artistic Research

VIS Editorial Board. Editorial committee member, 2022–present. Visit VIS.

Sarazad artistic research platform

Sarazad.art. Co-founder and editorial board member, 2021–present. Visit Sarazad.

Artistic research and essays

Mowing the Grass essay at Postcolonial Politics

“12+3 Days of Writing. Mowing the Grass: The Epistemic Violence and the Enemy of My Enemy.” Postcolonial Politics, July 2025. Read online.

Seascape of Imagination in NO NIIN

“Seascape of Imagination.” NO NIIN, issue 23, Helsinki, 2023. Read online.

A Funambulist at Urgent Pedagogies

“A Funambulist: Unearthing the Narratives of Karachi’s Colonial and National (Postcolonial) Formation.” Urgent Pedagogies, IASPIS. Read online.

On the Dermis of Body in X-Ray of a Revolution

“On the Dermis of Body.” In X-Ray of a Revolution, edited by Shahram Khosravi.

Once upon a Time, There Was a Monument

“On Top of the Mountain: Once upon a Time, There Was a Monument.” FIELD: A Journal of Socially-Engaged Art Criticism, issue 21, Spring 2022. Read online.

Unconscious Colonial Memory in GSG 3

“Unconscious Colonial Memory.” In GSG 3: Colonialism Today, edited by Iva Kovač and Sanja Horvatinčić. English and Serbo-Croatian. Read PDF.

PUBLIC 61: Currencies of Hospitality

“A Monument to the Invisible Citizen.” PUBLIC 61: Currencies of Hospitality. View issue.

The Life of an Itinerant through a Pinhole in VIS

“The Life of an Itinerant through a Pinhole.” VIS: Nordic Journal for Artistic Research. Read exposition.

Conversations and interviews

In the Art of Necromancy conversation

“In the Art of Necromancy.” Conversation with Edgar Schmitz, Rose Choreographic School. The discussion considers necromancy as an artistic method, the incompleteness of history, decolonisation and the labour of memorialising the past. Listen or read.

Dazed MENA interview on The Life of an Itinerant through a Pinhole
The Life of an Itinerant through a Pinhole interview image

“The Life of an Itinerant through a Pinhole.” Interview with Dazed MENA on colonial memory, historical face blindness and photography. Read interview.

KHOSRAVI

NOORI

Artist & Researcher