Candice Nembhard

Candice Nembhard (aka okcandice / sonic seamstress, based between Birmingham and Berlin) is an x-disciplinary artist-curator. Their practice examines methodologies of grief expressed through writing, sound, moving image, and performance, collected as audiovisual archives. A Jerwood Arts Curatorial Fellow and Obsidian Foundation Fellow, Candice is a co-founding member of the trio poet & prophetess, founder-director of Bedtime Stories, a non-profit sonic practice studio turned radio club, and founder of the now defunct all fruits ripe, an independent cinema series for queer, Black, and Global Majority filmmakers.

At Rupert, Candice will continue developing their research-performance series Offering into a multimedia experience; exploring uses of sound, performance, and moving image within public/collective rituals of grief. As part of her research, Candice wishes to explore Baltic grieving ceremonies and work with local choirs/musicians and craft maker with the aim of facilitating a shared, live activation on bereavement.