Blindside x LA Sound Series: Entangled Transmissions

Pratyay Raha is a sonic arts practitioner whose immersive works explore the entanglements of ecology, geophysical processes and human infrastructures. Working with field recordings and critical listening, he creates sonic environments that challenge fixation, separation, and boundaries. His practice approaches listening as both an artistic methodology and a political act, demonstrating how sound can dissolve boundaries as audiences inhabit multiple worlds simultaneously. Through site-responsive listening works, he invites reflection on fragile ecosystems, engaging audiences with the distributed agency of human and more-than-human sites to foster collective responsibility for threatened environments.

Adele Wilkes is an anti-disciplinary artist who contemplates the strange and often sublime experience of being in the world through a relational, affective and subjective lens, influenced by her fascination with multispecies perception, animism, spiritual ecology, and altered states. Her first love, cinema, permeates her work, which invites us to explore non-ordinary and more connected ways of knowing and being. She shares most of her time between Naarm and the region of her birthplace on Bundjalung Country.

Jahan Xanlü is a Swiss-Iranian writer and musician, with ancestral ties to Central Asia but currently based in Naarm. They use a linguistic lens to explore the root of ancient rituals and mythologies to merge them with modern frameworks that engage with present degrading ecological realities. Their work incoporates writing systems, oral memories and digital dust into their solar-punk dream. They advocate within the internationalist community radio movement, featuring and hosting shows across the globe. Always on the move, they seek to work with found objects (physically or digitally) and local flora and traditions as a means of recording their locus. Musically, Jahan mixes Central Asian improvised instrumentation and voice with industrial and doom metal music, and plays in the band Miras.

Amaara Raheem is a Sri Lankan born Australian artist and writer working across dance, sound, video, text and participatory practice. Her work approaches choreography as a way of listening to bodies, sites and histories, through collaborative and site-responsive processes. She was an ABC Top 5 Arts resident, a Creative Fellow at State Library Victoria and a Frank Van Straten Fellow at Arts Centre Melbourne. Her recent performance, After Agatha, was developed through a Front Room Residency at Temperance Hall. In November 2026, she begins a Forrest Foundation Creative Fellowship at WAAPA/Edith Cowan University, exploring artist-in-residence practices through her multidisciplinary project Radio Repair.

Laura McLean is a curator and researcher, living and working between Naarm Melbourne and Meanjin Brisbane. As Associate Curator at Liquid Architecture and Artistic Director at Blindside, she works with experimental practices and critical ideas engaging sound, listening, and media technologies across Australia and the Asia-Pacific. Past curatorial projects include A longing for far off places, Blindside, Melbourne (2026); The place we do not know is the place we are looking for and Recompositions, West Space x Liquid Architecture x Sarai, Melbourne (2025); Capture All, Liquid Architecture x Sarai, Melbourne/Delhi (2021-2024); CIVICS, Maroondah Federation Estate Gallery, Melbourne (2020); Startup States, Sarai-CSDS, Delhi (2019); Jenna Sutela_Orgs, Artistic Bokeh, Vienna (2015); and Contingent Movements Archive, Maldives Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale and UNESCO, Paris (2013). Laura holds an MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths, and is completing a PhD in Curatorial Practice at Monash University.