A Space For Sound

LIVE ARTIST | MOTHER CLOUD SPATIAL SOUND FESTIVAL

A Space For Sound (Rena Anakwe) is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, poet and healer working primarily with sound, visuals, and scent. Exploring intersections between traditional healing practices, spirituality and performance, she creates works focused on sensory-based, experiential interactions using creative technology. She is based in Brooklyn, New York by way of Nigeria and Canada.

Rena is a graduate of: the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts (MPS), The Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University (MFA) and New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business (BS.)

Most recently, she was awarded with a 2021-2022 MacDowell Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Arts, a 2022 Jack Nusbaum Artist Residency at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) and the 2021 Canadian Women Artists’ Award from NYFA & the CWC (Canadian Women’s Club) of New York, among numerous other awards and recognitions.

Under the moniker ‘A Space for Sound’, Anakwe released the first in an ongoing audio series titled “Sound Bath Mixtape vol. 1” in Summer 2020, through New York City-based label and collective PTP. In Fall 2021, her album "Sometimes underwater (feels like home)" was released through RVNG Intl's Commend THERE Label.