Collateral Echoes
> guest curator
> vr / xr / film
> installation
Info
Collateral Echoes is the centrepiece of this year’s Alternate Realities exhibition at Sheffield Doc Fest. From artist and filmmaker Baff Akoto, this new installation commemorates the potential, personalities and memories of Black and Immigrant Britons disproportionately killed after police contact since 1969.
Collateral Echoes combines XR, moving image and immersive sound design to present first-person testimonies, archival imagery and performance. Including spoken prose from Paapa Essiedu and poetry by the late, great Benjamin Zephaniah, the exhibition memorialises those killed – and gives voice to the communities who survive them – in this exploration of nostalgia, loss, grief and joy.
Display
2025 — Site Gallery (Sheffield, UK)
Birmingham Now
> curator / creator
> digital archive
> oral history
Info
Birmingham Now is an interactive digital map, developed by Birmingham Museums, which brings together sound clips from the past and present from across Birmingham.
It includes extracts from historic interviews from Birmingham Museums’ City Sound Archive, new reordings sent in by members of the public as well as work by creative groups in Birmingham.
Birmingham Now was created and curated by okcandice as part of The Woven Foundation Curatorial Fellowship. Project concept developed in support with funding from The Woven Foundation and developed and facilitated by Birmingham Museums Trust. The platform was developed by Bruno St-Jacques (landozone) and designed by Devision.
visit the map
You’re invited to explore, listen, and even add your own stories to the map, helping us to grow this unique collection of Birmingham sounds.
CoLab
> curator/project manager
> workshops
> zine production
Info
iniva takes CoLab to Handworth, Birmingham, returning to Holyhead School to further develop relationships and knowledge exchanges, with a focus on the urgent matter of the climate emergency.
CoLab Birmingham aims to enable young people to understand and address the complex issues surrounding the climate crisis. CoLab’s aim is to provide durability and lasting impact to the climate crises in individuals and in the Holyhead School.
Throughout the workshop sessions, students use sound, painting and sculpture to explore eco-anxiety and autonomy. During the sessions, students will experiment with environments to respond to themes such as nature and landscape preservation and food and water scarcity. The project will conclude with a printmaking experiment for students to create their own climate protest posters, inspired by the 1968-1971 Camden poster workshop.
Team
Curatorial Lead — Beatriz Lobo (iniva)
Artist-Educator — Exodus Crooks
Art Therapist — Karen Dhlamini
Climate Specialist and Researcher — Dr Susanne Boerner (University of Birmingham)
Zine
Promise Me Tomorrow: Notes on Climate Change (2023)
Project
2023 — iniva (London, UK)
Blood & Fire
> curator
> photography
> archives/ephemera
Info
As one of the UK’s leading Black artists of the commonwealth generation, Blood & Fire: Our Journey Through Vanley Burke’s History focuses on Vanley Burke’s journey to illustrate a wider, connected history of Black British experiences using the communities of Birmingham as a lens.
The artist has re-examined his personal collection after he lost a number of archival materials to a house fire. The fire served as a turning point for his art practice and this exhibition questions what it means to put these objects into a curatorial and historical context, gathering our past to pave the way for our future.
Display
2022/23 — Soho House Museum (Birmingham, UK)
Portals
> curator
> installation
> archive
Info
Portals explores the display cabinet in West Indian front rooms as a site for domestic archiving, memory, and structuring futures.
Artist-Curator okcandice invited Jade Foster, Marlene Smith, Rianna Jade Parker and Vanley Burke to treat the gallery space as its own cabinet; a view into the experiences of Black British culture and customs via the objects we keep and the stories we tell.
Display
2021 — Eastside Projects (Birmingham, UK)
Associated Programming
Community Archiving Day
Friday 8 October, 12pm – 7.30pm
Donations welcome from 12pm-5pm. Food and drink served from 6pm
Portals: In Conversation with Marlene Smith and Jade Foster
Saturday 23 October, 2-3pm
LIVE in the gallery
Portals: In Conversation with Vanley Burke and Rianna Jade Parker
Saturday 30 October, 2-3pm
LIVE in the gallery
LOOP
> curator
> installation
> multimedia
Info
LOOP is an exhibition constituted by actions and gestures, choreographed and presented to audiences, defined by the body, the floor, the walls, the sound, the sensors, the womb, the book, by whirling, by dancing with nature, and by trying to position these practices in the loop of history.
We don’t know what comes next but we want to perform again. We want to speak. To say something about subjectivity, class, race, and gender at play. We are artists constructing narratives, histories, fictions, and processes of being live, physical, virtual, and mediated.
LOOP asks what is at stake in encountering and experiencing performance? And how is this experience negotiated live and in person with the possibility of close physical proximity? Or mediated, distanced, documented and transmitted via technology and screens?
Team
Artist — Adham Faramawy
Artist — Harold Offeh
Artist — Keiken
Artist — Phoebe Collings-James
Artist — Samra Mayanja
Artist — Will Fredo
Curator — Harold Offeh
Curator — okcandice
Display
2021 — Eastside Projects (Birmingham, UK)
Kingdom Return
> curator
> prints
> public programming
Info
F-K Galerie explores self healing and empowerment with two events responding to the exhibition 'Till Kindom Come' by Opashona Ghosh.
Kingdom Return; a spoken word event and Femme New World; a panel discussion and artist presentation on self healing and community-bonding.
Team
Artist — Opashona Ghosh
Curator — Stephanie Ballantine
Curator — okcandice
Performer - Trovania Delille
Performer - Turke Chini
Panelist - Erkan Affan
Panelist - Anisha Müller
Panelist - Maissa Lihedheb
Moderator - R. Tilly
Food - Sarah Alikhan (Biri Bibi)
Display
2019 — F-K Gallery (Berlin, DE)