Anoushé Shojae-Chaghorvand (b. 1991) is a New Jersey based artist who works primarily in kinetic sculpture. She creates spatial cinema in the form of sculptures, installations, and performances that capture the complexity, violence, and absurdity inherent in contemporary culture. She is partially interested in amusement in American culture, and how it runs parallel to tragedy. 

Shojae-Chaghorvand’s work encompasses a variety of time based media, initially beginning her artistic practice in performance art, and expanding into kinetic sculpture. In her work Shojae-Chaghorvand has always been drawn to the ephemeral and plays with the notion of liveness. She is drawn to kinetics because of their draw to their own destruction. In a similar vein as performance art’s relationship to the photograph as a death certificate of the moment. She believes kinetic sculpture goes one step beyond performance art. Performance does not have the constant endurance of the machine, and its death is theoretical.  The mechanism on the motor shaft will work to be freed from its tether to a non-functioning point. The mechanism wants to die, and it has a stage.