**https://www.elekhlekha.xyz/**
**@elekhlekha (@nitchafame & @kengchakaj)**
elekhlekha อีเหละเขละขละ is a collaborative research-based group consisting of Bangkok-born, Brooklyn-based artists, Kengchakaj Kengkarnka–เก่งฉกาจ (https://kengchakaj.info/) and Nitcha Tothong(fame)–ณิชชา(เฟม) (https://nitcha.info/) that examines, decoded, explore, and define decolonized possibilities by creating, using code, algorithm, multimedia, and technology. They are interested in subversive storytelling using non-dominance sound and visual archives, historical research–decoding and unlearning biases, performing documents, multimedia, and technology to experiment, explore, and define decolonized possibilities.
elekhlekha has performed in small communities, larger institutional spaces, and music festivals, including Barbican Centre(UK); Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden(US); CultureHub(NY); Wonderfruit Festival (Thailand); Int-Act Festival 2022(Thailand); Wonderville NYC(as a part of LiveCode.NYC); Harvestworks(NY); Flux Factory(NY); Jamaica Center for the Arts & Learning(NY); The Jazz Gallery(NY); COMMON Festival(currents. fm); Homeward Bound(The Weekly Weekly, NY).
In 2022, they were awarded The Lumen Prize Gold Award—the first Gold Award winner to come out of the Global Majority category. In addition, the artists have received grants and development funds from Rhizome, the Processing Foundation, the Institute for Electronic Arts(iea), a City Artist Corps Grant, Queens Council on the Arts, and Babycastles for their projects. **elekhlekha is currently the NEW INC Y10 Art & Code track member, the first museum-led incubator for art, design, and technology founded by the New Museum, and a 2023–2024 Artist-in-Residence at CultureHub.
Tothong holds an MFA from the Parsons School of Design, and Kengkarnka holds an MM from the Manhattan School of Music. They’re currently based in Occupied Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NYC), the unceded lands of the Lenni-Lenape and home for many Indigenous peoples past, present, and future.
Photos from Cyberpunk Sundaze with Livecode NYC at Wonderville, Brooklyn, US, by S4y.
Photos by Thomas J. Logan, courtesy of Institute for Electronic Arts (IEA.)
Photos from The 11th Award Ceremony of the LUMEN Prize at Barbican Centre, London, UK, by Shangyou Shi. Courtesy of Lumen Art Projects.