Shareeka Helaluddin is an experimental artist, radio producer and community facilitator interested in the sonic, written word and collective organising; currently working on unceded Wangal Country.
Creating under the pseudonym akka, she fuses voice memos, found-sounds, echoic compositions, and influences of her mixed-multifaith lineage. She uses soundscaping as a means to unhinge linear expectations of colonial form and knowledge - in the pursuit of divinity and connection. She is currently the Executive Producer for anti-racist radio show Race Matters on fbi.radio, leading a team of young racially diverse people through an imaginative and liberatory approach to radio. Alongside this, she also works in community engagement and advocacy, bridging queer people of diverse cultural and spiritual practices towards socially-just, healing and anti-colonial gathering.
She has shared and collaborated on work as part of Liquid Architecture and SARAI, westspace, The Listening Academy, Cement Fondu, New Weird Australia, The Powerhouse Museum, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, ACCA Data Relations Summer School, Soft Centre, The Old Fitz Theatre, MCA’s Art Bar, First Draft Gallery; as well as graduating from fbi.radio’s music mentorship program Dance Class in 2019.
Photo: Benny Johnson