Shareeka Helaluddin is an experimental artist, radio producer and community facilitator interested in the sonic, written word and collective organising; currently working on unceded Gadigal Country.

Creating under the pseudonym akka, her practice is guided by intuition and listening. She fuses voice memos, found-sounds, echoic compositions, and influences of her mixed and multifaith Tamil-Bengali lineage. She finds solace and intrigue in drone, dissonance, and warped sounds of global club. akka uses djing as a means to deconstruct dance music -- unhinging linear expectations of form and sound. Her sound practice is an exploration of temporality, drone, dissonance, memory, ritual and a pursuit of deeper listening. 

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, First Draft Gallery, Verge Gallery, Parramatta Artist Studios, as well as graduating from FBi Radio’s music mentorship program Dance Class in 2019. She is currently the Executive Producer for Race Matters on FBi Radio, recently worked as a community facilitator for Twenty10 bringing forward an anticolonial healing space for queer and racially-marginalised peoples and services on the Hashim Advisory Commitee for the Aurora Group NSW. 

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. 

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