Offering (2022—) is an ongoing research experiment exploring rituals of grief in shared space through sound, live performance, and archives. Each iteration is a site-specific work shared to facilitate intimate reflections on bereavement.


Offering V7
2023
Live
30 mins

Diasporas Now UK Tour
NN Contemporary Art (Northampton)
2 November 2023



Offering V7 centred on dub poetry, loops, and Caribbean drumming.

Curator
Diasporas Now

Artists
Candice Nembhard (okcandice)
Buket Yenidogan & Zhao Jiajing
Sym Stellium
BISHI
Jennifer Lauren Martin

Photography & Stills
Tara Florence



Offering V6
2023
Live
35 mins

‘Six days of Love’ for How Love Moves: Prelude
Gropius Bau (Berlin)
10 August 2023

Offering V6 centred on maternal grief, floral tributes, and sonic somatics.

Curator

Gropius Bau
Pallavi Paul

Artists
Candice Nembhard (okcandice)
hn. Iyonga
Edna Bonhomme & Obaro Ejimiwe
Ranjani Mazumdar
houaïda, Michael Salu & Nilita Vachani

Photography & Stills
Laura Fiorio





Offering V5
2023
Live
25 mins

Sommerfest
Haus am Waldsee (Berlin)
9 July 2023

Offering V5 centred on water lineages, the Atlantic slave trade, May Ayim and German-Jamaican colonisation. 

Curator
Haus am Waldsee

Artists
Candice Nembhard (okcandice)
Juliette Blightman
Cakes of Despair
Nina Beier & Bob Kil





Offering V4
2023
Live
20 mins

Prompt Corner
La Casa Encendida (Madrid)
11 February 2023

Offering V4 centred on veiled West African spirits, Catholic mass, Afro-Latinx musicians, and dancing. 

Curator

Juf Projects

Artists
Candice Nembhard (okcandice)
AurélienPotier
Geo Wyeth (Muck Studies Dept.)

Photography & Stills
La Casa Encendida





Offering V3
2023
Live
15 mins

Poetry Meets Jazz
Oyoun (Berlin)
29 January 2023

Offering V3 was a freestyle/improvisation with the PMJ house band featuring singing and poetry on loneliness. 

Curator

Jumoke Adeyanju

Artists
Yazmin Lacey
Mariam Sawires
Candice Nembhard (okcandice)

Photography & Stills
PMJ





Offering V2
2022
Live
22 mins

Miserere
St James’s Church Piccadilly (London)
13 October 2022

Offering V2 centred on distortes sound and echoes.

Curator

Jesse Darling

Artists
Freya Lily
Trans Voices
Candice Nembhard (okcandice)
Cherif Hashizume
Sarah Boulton


Photography & Stills
SJP






Offering V1
2022
Live
22 mins

Blue Fire
Samuel Worth Chapel (Sheffield)
6 August 2022


Offering V1 was a dedication to Sheffield —the birth and resting place of okcandice’s mother.

Curator

Otis Mensah

Artists
seigfried komidashi
Candice Nembhard (okcandice)
Alexander
Shebekeke
Ashley Holmes

Photography & Stills
SWC

Supported by
Sheffield General Cemetary Trust

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