Noah Gokul

Statement

Noah (they/them) is a Queer multidisciplinary artist and educator from Oakland, CA. Rooted in care and storytelling, they use sound for meaning-making and healing, combining soca, Indian folk, house, and experimental noise to create expansive, multi-genre landscapes. Working primarily with sound, they also utilize film, writing, performance art, and video to create spaces of radical imagination and possibility at intersections of art, healing, and liberation.

GlogauAIR Project

I would like to use this residency to further build out my offering space called Dragonfly Co-Lab and the corresponding creative practices that join in the collaborative/experimental nature of Dragonfly Co-Lab’s design. Dragonfly Co-Lab is an online lab focusing on the experimental practice of art and healing. This offering intends to bridge my passions of art, healing and liberation through a multidisciplinary platform. I hope to create a space with the values of experimentation and collaboration across disciplines, underpinned by the principles of process wisdom, rooting in care, and creativity for world-weaving. During this summer, I plan to begin my research and practice on the symbolism and resonances of the spiral, through multimedia explorations of my own experience with ‘spiraling’ mentally. I hope to connect with the other GlogauAIR residents so they can join in the collaborative nature of the Lab. I will spend half of the residency in Portland, Oregon, USA and the other half in Berlin, and will use this opportunity to experiment with artists in both communities, as well as the landscape of both environments.

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