Shareeka Helaluddin is an experimental artist, radio producer and queer-community facilitator; currently working on unceded Gadigal Country. Creating under the pseudonym akka, her sound practice explores temporality, drone, dissonance, memory, ritual and a pursuit of deeper listening. Her work is often grounded in notions of healing and reciprocity, attempting to use soundscapes as a place to find connection and spaciousness.
She has shared and collaborated on work as part of Liquid Architecture and SARAI, WestSpace Offsite, The Old Fitz Theatre, Digital Writers Festival, MCA’s Art Bar, Firstdraft, Verge Gallery, Parramatta Artist Studios, as well as graduating from FBi Radio’s music mentorship program Dance Class.
Having recently begun her studies into therapy, she hopes to move towards a healing practice that explores somatics, care and sonic expression as a means of liberation for communities who have been maligned by dominant and problematic structures of mental health. By coalescing creativity and therapy, she also hopes to decentre institutionally-bound art to more sustainable, community-orientated pursuits.
