Braudie Blais-Billie is a Brooklyn-based writer hailing from the Seminole Tribe of Florida's Hollywood reservation.

Braudie Blais-Billie is a Brooklyn-based writer hailing from the Seminole Tribe of Florida's Hollywood reservation. Focusing on the intersection of Indigenous issues, art, and culture, her work has appeared in publications like Pitchfork, i-D, Glamour, Billboard, and more. She has fiction published in The Evergreen Review and Columbia University's School of Arts interdisciplinary journal Some Kind of Opening.

Braudie Blais-Billie

Dakota is a Bundjalung and Gumbaynggirr descendent, and is currently based in Lenapehoking (New York City).

Dakota is a Bundjalung and Gumbaynggirr descendent, and is currently based in Lenapehoking (New York City). As a poet and storyteller, Dakota has been published by print and online journals including Overland Literary Journal, Australian Poetry, Red Room Poetry, Cordite Poetry Review and more. His work consists of poems, stories and mixed-media reflections that engage with Country, history and manhood. Dakota has a forthcoming debut poetry collection titled Arsenic Flower. As a recipient of the Roberta Sykes Scholarship, Dakota is undertaking a Masters in Museum studies at New York University with a focus on reparative ethics, rematriation and biocultural collections. Dakota believes in healing Country and empowering Community through art and storytelling.

Dakota Feirer

SJ Norman is a cross-disciplinary artist and writer. During the course of an eighteen- year career, he has worked extensively in Australia and internationally.

SJ Norman is a cross-disciplinary artist and writer. During the course of an eighteen- year career, he has worked extensively in Australia and internationally. In addition to his practice as an independent artist, he is the founder and co-curator (with his collaborator, Joseph M. Pierce) of the Indigenous-led experimental art festival Knowledge of Wounds, inaugurated in New York City/Lenapehoking in 2020. His writing has been published in literary journals, and has won or placed in numerous literary awards. His first book of fiction, Permafrost, is forthcoming with the University of Queensland press. SJ was born on Gadigal land.

SJ Norman

Hayden Ryan is an Aboriginal sound scholar and artist of Yuin descent from the south east coast of New South Wales, currently residing in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia). His work centres Indigenous sonic an spatial practice, a concept that realises the inextricability of land, body sound and culture within Indigenous knowledge systems.

Hayden Ryan is a Yuin spatial sound artist and scholar, residing in Narrm (Melbourne). Supported by Creative Australia, the Roberta Sykes Foundation and Ian Potter Cultural Trust, Hayden completed his Master of Music in Music Technology at New York University (2022-2024) where he explored the reclamation of acoustic sovereignty through integrating spatial audio into Indigenous cultural practice. Hayden is currently undertaking a PhD in the SIAL Sound Studios at RMIT University, researching Indigenous relations to sound and acoustic space as explored through spatial audio technologies and signal processing techniques. With a keen interest in spatial audio and acoustics, Hayden’s artistic work and research convolves psychoacoustic and immersive concepts with Indigenous epistemologies of sound, country and knowing to reclaim acoustic sovereignty in both sonic arts and academic spaces.

Hayden Ryan

Ikwe (Kelsey Van Ert/Kelsey Pyro) is an African American and Ojibwe artist and musician from St. Paul & Minneapolis, based in Brooklyn. She is a first generation descendant of the Fon Du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (Ojibwe/Anishinaabe), of which her mother is an enrolled citizen.

Ikwe (Kelsey Van Ert/Kelsey Pyro) is an African American and Ojibwe artist and musician from St. Paul & Minneapolis, based in Brooklyn. She is a first generation descendant of the Fon Du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (Ojibwe/Anishinaabe), of which her mother is an enrolled citizen. She is a two time recipient of the Brooklyn Arts Council Community Arts Grant (2018 & 2019). She is also a recipient of the 2022 AudioFemme Agenda Grant. She was a 2018 Artist In Residence at The Shed where she developed and presented her musical piece, “MAKADEWIIYAASIKWE”the Ojibwe word for, “a Black woman; a woman of African descent.”
The work was later recorded during the 2019 Protest Garden  artist in residency at The Wyckoff House. Her work has been presented at Lincoln Center Out of Doors with La Casita,  the Brooklyn Prelude Festival, SECCA in Winston-Salem NC, Beckham Gallery in Flint MI, and Wa Na Wari in Seattle WA.  Kelsey is currently a Music Technology Masters student at New York University.
Her educational work has been supported by the NYU Steinhardt Dean’s Opportunity Scholarship, Stephen Temmer Scholarship, Native Forward Scholarships, and The Audio Engineering Society Educational Foundation Scholarship. Her master's thesis is focused on increasing Indigenous presence in technology and music preservation through the development of a web based virtual representation of the Native American Hand Drum.

Kelsey Ikwe

Born into a rich tapestry of Chinese culture, Zheyu "Pierre" Pi seamlessly fuses traditional elements with cutting-edge modern music production.

Born into a rich tapestry of Chinese culture, Zheyu "Pierre" Pi seamlessly fuses traditional elements with cutting-edge modern music production. As a versatile music producer, percussionist, and composer, Zheyu explores a vast sonic landscape that spans electronic, metal, and orchestral music.
In the bustling arts scenes of New York and Chicago, Zheyu has contributed evocative soundtracks to various installation art projects, creating immersive auditory experiences that complement visual art. Additionally, he has lent his talent to the world of indie gaming and film, crafting soundscapes that have elevated award-nominated projects and earned recognition for their emotive power and originality.

Zheyu Pi (Pierre)

Blindside and Liquid Architecture are excited to announce Acoustic Sovereignties, a sonic arts installation curated by Yuin sound artist, Hayden Ryan and mentored by Liquid Architecture Associate curator Laura McLean. Acoustic Sovereignties foregrounds resistance to colonial hegemony through sonic intervention, highlighting the ways in which First Nations and non-Western sound artists reclaim and express their acoustic and spatial histories.

In this exhibition, artists based in Naarm (Melbourne) and Lenapehoking (New York City) articulate their personal and cultural identities through sound, visuals, storytelling, poetry, music and spatial audio. Featured artists of Native and African American, Chinese and Aboriginal Australian heritage have contributed works that will be presented over an immersive loudspeaker system and a dedicated audio-visual listening space, inviting audiences to engage with their stories over an intimate and unique medium.

Participating artists: Dakota Feirer, SJ Norman, Hayden Ryan, Zheyu Pi (Pierre), Kelsey IKWE and Braudie Blais-Billie. The exhibition launches at 6pm, Thursday 21 November to the public with a Mob Only opening 5-6pm. This exhibition will run until mid-December. More information [here](https://linktr.ee/acousticsovereignties)

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