okcandice / sonic seamstress is an artist-curator, writer and musician. They are the director of Bedtime Stories studio and a radio producer for Refuge Worldwide.
Their practice is concerned with methodologies of grief, Black audio-visual archives and uses of the sonic in civic space.
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 Arts Foundation, and Obsidian Foundation.
In recent years, they have performed and exhibited work 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).