sasha wilde

PERFORMANCES, RESIDENCIES, COMMISSIONS

• A co-facilitator of Dreaming and Listening Matrix at St Margaret’s house, London. Experiments in bridging the social dreaming and sound healing practices, with psychotherapist Iggy Robinson and sound therapist Nicole Bettencourt Coelho, 2023
• Love and Kindness Spell, a live ritual performance at Spanners Nicole Bettencourt Coelho, featuring DIY wearables and a 4 voice choir with members from from the F* Choir, 2022
• Human Measure by Cassils. Vocal contribution to the score, USA & Canada, 2022
• A week-long choral/vocal residency at Bidston Observatory Artistic Research Centre, guided by Jenny Moore, 2022
• Bodiless Thing film by Wet Mess, score composition and sound edit, premiere at the ICA, London, 2022
• Live performance at Trans Day of Joy, Bright New Future festival, Somerset House, London, 2022 
• Sasha Wilde: sketches on surviving satanic panic – solo performance at the end of a two-month sound and performance art residency at Titanik Galeria, Turku, Finland, 2022
• Live improvised performance with Nicole Bettencourt Coelho and ritual dancer Byuka at the experimental improvisation space Iklectik, utilising their ambisonic 16.4 sound system. As part of the new performance art curatorial fellowship curated by Dyana Gravina, London, 2022
• R&D session + VR and film documentation of new live performance methods and technologies, exploring gestural devices through movement and sound, with Niya B, Byuka and Nicole Bettencourt Coelho at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London, 2022
• IRCAM, Centre Pompidou. A performance lecture presenting spatial sound and movement technologies for live performance, with Nicole Bettencourt Coelho and Yuki Nakayama, Paris, 2022
• Glastonbury festival, Shangri-La, Sistxrhood, crew member and performer, 2022
• Close Shave by dir. Lydia Garnett, music score for a short film, 2022
• Music score for Both& new campaign video, dir. Wes O’Connor, Los Angeles, 2022
• Composing for Art Workers TV series, dir. Jos Bitelli, coming out in 2023
• Sound composition for Finn, a short film dir. by Lydia Garnett, 2021
• Every Time I am Erased, I Write Myself Back, sound sculpture commissioned by the decolonial translation collective Mother Tongues, 2019
• Sound recording and engineering for Phoebe Davies and Nandi Bhebhe “Viscera”, Wellcome Collection commission, 2021
• Songwriter, producer, singer and mixing engineer on KERAI’s album Show Me A Future Where I Can Live, 2021
• Music producer for an electro-punk band Trouble Wanted, London, ongoing
• Music producer for Oily Lagoon’s track “Snake Woman”, Berlin, 2021
• Sound composition for “Art Workers” series, directed by Jos Bitelli, coming out in 2023
• SapfoFest, live performance event, festival opening, Lithuania, 2021
• Sodas2123, resident artist with the diaspora artists collective Transplantations, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2021-ongoing

VIDEO

• Let the Body Remind, an experimental film exploring the inner realities bondage can facilitate – a collaboration with visual artist Elie Halonen, Finland, 2023
• Performance for camera in “Heaven and Songs“ music video, dir. Lydia Garnett, 2019
• Performance for camera in “Evolution“ music video, dir. Oliver David; collaboration with artists Eve Stainton and Florence Peake; premiered at the Trans Day of Joy, online event, 2021
• Collaboration with an Iceland-based British artist Kitty von-Sometime, “Origin” music video, premiere and interview on OUT magazine, 2018

WRITING and TRANSLATION

• Translator of Jurga Tumasonyte’s “Taxi Driver”. Part of Contemporary Lithuanian Fiction chapbook series, published by Strangers Press, UK, supported by Lithuanian Culture Institute, coming out in 2023
• “Pilnatis” [“Full Moon”], short story published in a Lithuanian LGBTQ+ magazine Kreives, print, Lithuania, 2021
• “Working Class Kids Were Told They Had No Future Before It Was Cool” for Working Class Creatives Database, online takeover, new writing and art commission, UK, 2021 
• “Transmission”, short story published in Alterity studies magazine, issue 1, print and online, Corbel Stone Press, Iceland, 2017
• British Council and Lithuanian Culture Institute, literary translation mentorship, January-May 2018
• British Centre for Literary Translation, UAE, Translation and Creative Writing Summer School, 2018 and 2019

WORK EXPERIENCE 

• Lithuanian language teacher at School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, UCL, 2016-2019
• Lithuanian-English face-to-face interpreter for the NHS, 2016
• Volunteer mentor for children and teenagers with SEN at Markfield Centre, London, 2015

EDUCATION

• Alphabet radio/Soho radio, radio production course, March-April 2021, online
• MA Psychosocial studies, Birkbeck University, London, 2015-2018.
  Subjects studied: medical humanities, critical theories, moral philosophy, Lacanian and Kleinian psychoanalytic theories. Dissertation “How does AI, when conceived of in Deleuzian terms as an assemblage, bring into question agency, temporality, ethics and embodiment?” awarded best dissertation in the cohort prize. 
• Web development course: website and application building, Code First, London, 2016-2017
• BA Tibetan and Study of Religions, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 2010-2013
  Subjects studied: ancient and modern Tibetan language, Tibetan history, critical theories, continental philosophy, psychoanalytic theories.

LANGUAGES

• Lithuanian (native), English (fluent), French, Russian, Tibetan, Finnish