Since 2022, we have been running an artist-in-residence programme. Each year, we support four artists, who we select based on an open call. Our aim is to support visual artists, who (want to) work with radio, in producing or researching for a new work, and to offer them a platform beyond their five-week residency period.

Bint Mbareh is a sound researcher with a focus on water in Palestine. Her interest in the physical parallel between water waves and sound waves leads her into questions of border dissolutions (between bodies, between states, between tenses), and into the possibility of being enveloped by the voice and by sounding communally – similarly to being enveloped by a water body. She challenges settler colonial epistemology by taking seriously Palestinian ways of knowing, from rain-summoning music to shrine pilgrimage as an instigator to political revolution.

Buulbuul is a collective formed by Haider & Kas, artists from Kazakhstan currently based in The Netherlands. This lyrics & sound collective is based on the poetic and musical concept called 'gül-u bulbul', which refers to the flower gardens and nightingales in the love poetry (ghazals) of the Persianate world, such as that of Hafez. Modern-day pop songs in Central Asia, despite using a contemporary Turkic vocabulary and sound, still borrow their musical and lyrical inspirations from those traditions, which began before Russo-Ottoman attempts to erase their Persianate influences. By further fleshing out these concepts in an experimental way, both lyrically and sonically, Haider & Kas also focus on the homoerotic aspect of those ghazals.

Naomi Hettiarachchige-Hubèrt (NL) is an artist and graphic designer based in Amsterdam. She’s interested in how to re-enchant, challenge and rewrite hegemonic, western belief systems that infiltrate the everyday and spill into personal and collective consciousness. Her research is often activated through storytelling, which carries voices of human and non-human entities, alternative universes and ways of inter-existing, (auto-)fiction and reappropriated signifiers that manifest into visual, textual and sonic gestures.

Nombuso Mathibela is a cultural worker, educator, writer, and vinyl selector based in Johannesburg, working through sound, focusing on anti-colonial liberation histories and cultural ecological behaviours in Africa. She is the founder of Jewel Scents & Song, a Pan-African research space thinking through metal and jewelry production. Mathibela is an associate at Nawi Collective and an archivist at the Centre for the Study of Race, Class and Gender at the University of Johannesburg. She is a co-resident at the Ways of Repairs artistic research residency. Mathibela works with and responds to sound archives, including music, vinyl, cassettes, CDs, field recordings, audio interviews, voices, noise and silence as cultural texts.

Naledi Chai is an interdisciplinary artist working in filmmaking, collage, design, and sculpture. Chai holds Bachelor's Degree of Arts in cinematography, sound design, film editing and scriptwriting. Her work explores object displacement and space, and repurposes discarded materials. Chai is interested in methods, approaches and ideas that centre Sub-Saharan African art practices. She has collaborated with Boiler Room TV and co-curated and contributed to the sound artist-led Drone Day 2023. Chai participated in the Waste Not Want Not exhibition, the Brixton Light Festival and Art After Baby, and was recently part of Bauhaus.Listening.Workshop at the Goethe-Institut. She also curated International Drone Day 2024 in Johannesburg.

Amara Higuera is an artist and writer from Los Angeles (the ancestral and unceded land of the Gabrielino-Tongva and Chumash peoples). She is exploring histories of precarity, resilience, and (re)generation through lens based inquiry and sound. She is currently writing poetry and making sound works as a practice of personal exorcism and artistic research.

Khamoosh is a participatory transdisciplinary research community that mediates conservation and restoration by exploring the sonic heritage of Iran through recorded sounds of everyday life; sounds less heard or even silenced. This process-based work aims to build an interactive archive of sounds and to exchange, resurrect and decolonize these sounds using artistic methods.

Alec Mateo is a Dominican artist from New York working with words, sounds, and gestures to explore emancipated modes of being by negotiating relationships to narrative. Fueled by the Black Radical tradition and fealty to hip-hop, ambient and folk music, Mateo's work uses sound to create spaces that attempt to betray the violence inherent to story, and instead find within them spaces of contemplation, reflection, and ultimately joy.

Mika Hayashi Ebbesen, aka Mikatsiu, is a queer Japanese-Norwegian artist who identifies as a frequency witch and works in the independent arts publishing sector as an editor. Projects as a performer and composer over the past decade stem from a life-long interest in physical and sonic choreography; their curiosity is centred around investigating the ever-evolving social relationships woven between archives and practices of attunement. From 2018 to 2021 they co-curated From Breath To Matter, a Berlin-based event series exploring the voice as a medium within the field of sound-dance, and hosted a podcast mini-series with Jule Flierl about experimental vocal practices.

See Kim's residency presentation, including three radio shows, here: 'On Gaborone, 1985' and 'Satellite Activism'

Born in Gaborone, Botswana, Kim Karabo Makin is a multidisciplinary artist, radio DJ/host and Master of Fine Art (MFA) graduate from the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town. Much of Makin's work is informed by a lived sense of displacement and multiculturalism – with particular attention to the role that context plays in identity formation. Makin's practice at present compounds aspects of her background in Sculpture (her undergraduate major) with her experience in Radio – presenting on-air at UCT Radio for over five years. Her practice thus combines Sculpture, Sound and Installation, with a research archival base and unique spatial awareness. She continues to form a core member and contributing artist of the collective platform The Botswana Pavilion. Most recently, Makin has participated in a number of online panel discussions in collaboration with Southern Africa Arts (British Council), the World Bank Art Program and the Zeitz MOCAA. She also practices as a Lecture Assistant and Tutor at the Michaelis School of Fine Art.

Find Emiddio's residency presentation here: nuum FM and MF muun

Emiddio Vasquez is a Cypriot-Dominican electronic musician and artist. His practice deals with material transformations that blur the encoding-decoding processes across media as a way of engaging with the larger infrastructures at stake. Drawing on memories of uprooting and his interest in media technologies, his work looks at themes surrounding the politics of visibility, mediated sensing, and the processes of subject formation, with a particular interest for the contemporary condition of the neoliberal subject.

In 2018, he founded Moneda (@moneda_._) a record label, sound event series, and publishing initiative.

See Naomi's residency outcome here: gurgling gargoyles gobbled gobbling goblins

Naomi Credé is an artist and writer whose research revolves around experiences and understandings of bodily control in relation to real and fictional spaces, particularly in response to sensations such as dizziness, disorientation and exhaustion. She works primarily with sound and text—using voice as both a medium and a focal point of her research—resulting in immersive installations, radio broadcasts, writing, performances and readings. Naomi is a co-founder of Amsterdam based collective Fabulous Future.

See Artun's residency outcome here: Philoctetes: Rehearsals (Act I)

Artun Alaska Arasli (1987) is a Turkish artist and writer based in Amsterdam. Presentations of his work include Prose, Kantine, Brussels; Cardena: Warming Up, Rozenstraat, Amsterdam; Porcupine, Jan Van Eyck, Maastricht; The Beauty Commission, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. His texts have been published in Le Chauffage, nY, Interjection Calendar (Montez Press). Since 2017 he has co-authored theater plays for i.a. NTGent, Toneelgroep Oostpol, and Het Zuidelijke Toneel.