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Nils Hansen
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HAU Berlin
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okcandice / sonic seamstress is an x-disciplinary artist-curator living and working between Birmingham
okcandice was the 2023/24 Woven Foundation Curatorial Fellow; previously Digital Curator at Birmingham Museum & Gallery, Jerwood Foundation Curatorial Fellow, Obsidian Foundation Poetry Fellow and artist-curator at Eastside Projects.
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 - pictured), and BOZAR (Brussels).
Their writing has been published by Frieze, Sleek Mag, Highsnobiety, SAND Journal, Poetry London, Bath Magg, and Berlin Art Link, among others.
okcandice has been a Guest Lecturer at the Royal College of Art (London), an acquistions advisor for the Government Art Collection (London) and has delivered workshops and talks at Wysing Arts Centre (Cambridgeshire), D&AD (London), IKON Gallery (Birmingham), New Art Exchange (Nottingham) and ifa Gallery (Berlin).
okcandice hosts the monthly radio shows Bedtime Stories on Cashmere Radio (Berlin) and Must Be The Music on Refuge Worldwide (Berlin). They are also the founder-director of Bedtime Stories Radio Club; a sonic practice studio championing experiments in sound and oral heritage.
° more life / more love / more fruits °°