Ali Latif-Shushtari

Ali Latif-Shushtari (1990, Iran) is a composer and artistic researcher living in Switzerland. His work explores how artistic meaning comes to life in performative and spatial contexts. He focuses on the conditions under which artistic works develop through encounters, rather than being seen as fixed objects. Key to his practice are questions about liminality, indeterminacy, and relational perception — dynamics that shape the experience of composition. Originally trained in Solid-State Physics (BSc, MSc), he later pursued Music Composition and Artistic Research at the Bern University of the Arts (HKB). He views composition as an evolving event shaped by space, the body, and the presence of the audience. Light is a recurring compositional material in his work, not as illumination, but as a force that triggers perception in the audience, orients the body, and determines what can and cannot be observed, leaving the making of meaning to the subject.