Obel Ochieng

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Obel Ochieng

Preferred pronouns:

they/them
Birth year:

1994
Primarily based in or works from:

Kenya Sweden
Skills:

sound art writing visual and performance art curating dance noise
Topics:

ecological lgbtiqa+ healing body anti-oppression
Contact information:

Currently working on:

I am currently in a performance art residency in Sweden, from January 2026 to January 2028. During my time here I am collaborating, experimenting, and also creating cross-disciplinary work with water and queer bodies as my focus areas. You can learn more about the residency here.

Quick Facts:

Performance maker, writer, and sound artist working across sound, recycled materials, and movement. My artistic practice centers water and queer bodies as sites of memory, resistance, and transformation. Through performance and interdisciplinary research, I investigate how both water and queer bodies are legislated, controlled, commercialized, exploited, and regulated by social and political systems. My work explores the ways these entities resist containment, moving defiantly beyond imposed borders, structures, expectations, and regulations.

Three relevant works from the last 5 years of artistic practice:

Highest educational degree:

Bachelor in Theatre and Film Production

Work samples:

Undercurrents

Undercurrents is a performance exploring the relationship between water and oppressed bodies through sound, movement, and presence. The work emerges from the idea that both marginalized bodies and endangered waters are often silenced, controlled, or denied space to speak and be heard. Through an intimate act of listening, the performance creates a dialogue between human and water, treating water not as a resource or backdrop but as a living body with a voice.