okcandice archive
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> photography / text
> digital archive
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okcandice archive is a collection of observations by writer, artist-curator and musician, okcandice. It began as an experiment in 2012 and is now a lifelong audio-visual project on memory and imagining futures. more life / more love / more fruits.
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Call It Luck
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> performer
> short film
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Call It Luck is a song written by okcandice for Through The Cycle — a jazz/soul album by composer duo, Dhanya Langer and Max Scholl aka Modha.
The album and its accompanying short film (directed by Nils Hansen) explores mental health experiences and paths toward healing. It follows six characters who embark on individual journeys to confront and overcome the pains and traumas they have suppressed.
Display
2023 — Director’s Library (London, UK)
2023 — Minute Shorts (London, UK)
Northern Souls: Why We’re Here
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> film
> documentary
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Northern Souls: Why We’re Here is a documentary by okcandice produced for the exhibition Portals.
The film features an interview with the artist’s grandparents in their living room. The couple discuss their arrival to England from Jamaica in the 1960s; touching upon their first impressions of living in northern England (Sheffield) and how the growing Caribbean community positively impacted the city’s development.
The exhibiton cut zeroes in on the couple’s family heirlooms, the role of the display cabinet in West Indian culture and legacy through collected objects.
Display
2021 — Eastside Projects (Birmingham, UK)
The Morning After Love
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> film
> live performance
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The Morning After Love is a cinepoem/performance by okcandice presented at Hebbel Am Ufer theatre for Manifestos For Queer Fetures as part of the festival The Present Is Not Enough – Performing Queer Histories and Futures.
The short fillm follows two Black queer lovers and queries what capacity there is for love after lust.
Performance
2019 — Hebbel am Ufer Theatre (Berlin, DE)
Screenings
2025 — CinéClubQueer (Montreuil, FR)
2020 — Alvozay Festival (Berlin, DE)
2020 — Oyoun (Berlin, DE)
2019 — Trauma Bar & Kino (Berlin, DE)
2019 — Hebbel am Ufer Theatre (Berlin, DE)