Khaled Sabsabi

Khaled Sabsabi is a community arts practitioner and artist who specialises in multimedia sound and hip-hop music.

Since 1990 Khaled has worked with communities in Western Sydney to create and develop arts led programs that explore people and places from a broad social, political and religious spectrum.

His work has been screened and performed in Australia at the Casula Powerhouse in Sydney and in Lebanon at the Beirut Theatre. He has also received an AFI nomination for his sound work on the film Color Bars (1997) and has produced sound and music for Writing from the Hip (Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney, 1996), which was awarded Best Play in the 1996 Contemporary Performance Awards.

Khaled was the recipient of an Australia Council fellowship in 2002 and completed an artist residency program in Camden Head, NSW in 2004.

He recently took part in the 2007 New Media Fest, SoundLAB and the 3rd Digital Art Festival in Rosario, Argentina. Khaled was also invited to participate at an arts symposium: Society, Politics and the Performative in New Zealand, where he spoke about the role that contemporary arts practice can play as a vehicle for social change.

Khaled has secured exhibitions in Spain for 2008 and is exploring further opportunities to host solo exhibitions.