okcandice (a.k.a sonic seamstress) is an artist-curator, writer, archivist and musician. They are the director of sonic practice studio Bedtime Stories, co-founder of queer dance party SHUBZ and a radio resident for Berlin’s Refuge Worldwide.
Their practice is concerned with grief methodologies, audio-visual archives, Black oral history collections and experimental sonics in civic space. Previous positions include Curator (Sheffield Doc Fest), Digital Curator (Birmingham Museum & Gallery), Curator (Eastside Projects), Guest Lecturer (Royal College of Art), Acquisitions Advisor (Government Art Collection) and fellowships with the Woven Foundation, Jerwood Foundation, and Obsidian Foundation.
okcandice is currently researching sonic-somatics of grief and is training to be a Death Doula.
Their work has been exhibited at Sophiensæle (Berlin), New Art Gallery (Walsall), The Barber Institute (Birmingham), Festsaal Kreuzberg (Berlin), Fabric (London), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Kunstverein Hamburg, Birmingham Symphony Hall, NN Contemporary Art (Northampton), Gropius Bau (Berlin), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Southbank Centre (London), HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), and BOZAR (Brussels).