I. Nakhla is an artist, musician, and teacher. Through sound, workshops, music, and performance, they build sonic worlds. Nakhla is interested in the accessibility and curation of archives, forming sonic interventions that insist on active pasts and urgent presences. Nakhla’s audio work is embedded in relations between voice, place, environment, and identity (personal as well as community, intergenerational as well as ‘present’-tense). Their work performs sound and music as transitory places, prompting questions about what we consider to be space, place and exhibition. With collaboration and participation a key part of their practice, Nakhla works with the sonic to queer sites of production, in search of inclusive and ongoing sonic ecosystems.
Nakhla works as a lecturer at Camberwell College of Art, UAL (BA Sculpture) and Northampton University (BA Fine Art).
Selected Exhibitions / Performances
Residencies:
Selected Artist, Make New Work commission (WASTE), ARC, Stockton, UK (2024)
Selected Artist, ame C.I.C Digital Gardens Residency, Huddersfield (2023)
Selected Artist, Digital Residency Program, IMT Gallery (2021 – 2022)
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2024
WASTE live performance, ARC, Stockton, UK
Live DJ set for Yuli Serfaty, ‘Hunter, Killer, Father, Lover’, Xxijra Hii Gallery, London
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2023
end measure live DJ set with In-grid, Marquis N16, London
The Way We Were, Tenderly, live audio performance, Avalon Cafe, London
Performance for Digital Gardens Residency, ame C.I.C, Dai Hall, Huddersfield
AHRC / University of Cambridge commission ‘Monstrous Math’, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
Live improvisation for ‘Curating IMT Gallery’ Routledge book launch, IMT Gallery, London
Instrumental music for Cedar Lewisohn’s Plastic Language, Dub Poetry Special, NTS Radio, Online
‘Concourse’ end measure album release, Online
end measure live performance/DJ set with FakeDak, Corsica Studios, London
E Land Total Sound, collaboration with Katherine Smith, Iklectic Art Lab, London
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2022
In-grid X SET end measure live performance/DJ set, SET Woolwich, London
‘A Bit Cliché’, Live Performance, Xxijra Hii Gallery, London
‘On the Lips of Time’, Public sculpture / sound commission, Queens Walk, Southbank Centre, London
In-grid realbodies, live performance, Corsica Studios, London
Proxy Aurelia, live performance, IKLECTIK, London
Digital residency collective in booth w/IMT Gallery, London Art Fair
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2021
London Grads 2021, Saatchi Gallery, London
Slade school of Art, MA/MFA summer show, Slade school, London
Bambi Woods Presents, Radio broadcast, Athens, Greece
New Futures, Kovet Art Gallery, Online
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2020
London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London
Queer in Exile, online exhibition and digital book
Intimacy Spills, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London
Performance of ‘Solo Chorus’, Bloomsbury Theatre, London
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2019
ArtLicks Radio Weekend, C.L.I.T Live, Radio broadcast
Score for choreography – part of On Edge: Is this for real, Science Gallery, London
Slade School of Art Interim show, Slade School, London
Radio broadcast of ‘The Sound of Bugs’ and ‘Slap me Flat’ on Resonance FM
Colour Tale exhibition at Slade School of Art, performance reading and drawings
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2018
Deliquium Sound Art Triennial, Electrowerkz, London
Album releases:
Bedding, Bedding, Bedding, end measure album release, online (2023)
Concourse, end measure album release, online (2023)
Album X IMT, end measure album release, online (2022)
Sound Mixes and Scores:
2024
Composition, mix, master for Yuli Serfaty Film, ‘Hunter, Killer, Father, Lover’, Xxijra Hii Gallery, London
2023
Sound mix and post-production for ‘Memorial Gestures’ by filmmaker April Lin, for Holocaust Centre North, London
Sound recording, mix and master ‘Atlas Of Mediterranean Liquidity’ by artist Korallia Sterdges, Goethe Institut Zypern/Cyprus, Online Release
2022
Sound design and mix for ‘The Earthly Realm is Out of Balance’ for artist April Lin, FACT Liverpool/Jerwood Arts
Sound mix for ‘Myam Mwam Meow Miaow Mam Ma’ by artist Korallia Sterdges, Slade School of Art Degree show 2022, + New Contemporaries 2023
2021
Sound mix and sound design for ‘Tending to Ta’ by film maker April Lin and Queer East
Film Festival, screened at Horse Hospital, London
Sound mix and sound design for ‘TR333’ by film maker April Lin screened at Welcome Collection, London, CCA Glasgow, and Sheffield Doc Fest, UK