Regine Basha

Regine Basha has over 25 years of independent curatorial and consulting experience with
exhibitions, special commissions and publicly-sited projects in the US and
internationally as found in Bashaprojects.com. Since the early 2000s she has
researched and presented artists exploring the materiality of sound /music, as well as
artists working with revisionist histories. For several years Basha taught at Columbia
University MFA Sound department and continues to teach, lecture and sit on juries
worldwide. From 2016 - 2019 she was Director of Residencies at Pioneer Works and
continues to be Advisor to the Pocantico Residency, David Rockefeller Center New
York, Ca LaRosa in Verges, Spain; Artpace, Texas; Denniston Hill Residency New York
and SETI Residency. She holds a BFA in Studio Art and Art History from New York
University/ Concordia University and an MA from Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard
College.
The project Tuning Baghdad, founded by Regine Basha, is an audio-visual archive of
music, story-telling and narrative history related to Basha ́s diasporic Iraqi-Jewish
upbringing, her father ́s deep relationship to Arabic music and the chargli parties he
organized and the performers of Iraqi Maqam. Using photographs, mixed cassette
tapes, home movies and researched images spanning from the 1930s - 1980s, Basha
weaves personal and historical anecdotes of a ‘musical citizenship’. Since 2006, the
archival materials she has collected manifested as an archival website
Tuningbaghdad.com; a radio show with Clocktower Radio, a roving lecture/ tea salon
(Cabinet Magazine, Nawat Fez); a dinner party ‘Dar Al Suhl’ with Ella Shohat +Michael
Rakowitz (The Mosaic Room). Currently Basha is living in Spain with her son and working on a forthcoming book.