Akil Ahamat’s work across video, sound, performance, installation and games considers the physical and social isolation of online experience and its effects in configuring contemporary subjectivity. Driven particularly by their research into the use of ASMR in online spaces as a self-administered therapeutic tool, Akil translates its restorative effects into intimate audio experiences in the public space of the gallery. Translated further back into online experiences in recent work, these aesthetics are used to sensorially reproduce core questions about listening and relating.

Akil has most recently produced online works for Parramatta Artist Studios, Sydney Review of Books, Bleed: Biennial Live Event in the Everyday Digital, and PACT, Erskineville. They have most recently exhibited physically at Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Monash University Museum of Art, Artspace, Verge Gallery and UTS ART. Akil was shortlisted for the NSW Visual Arts Emerging Emerging Fellowship (2020) and the winner of the John Fries Award, UNSW Galleries, Sydney (2018).