Olesia Onykiienko
The musician and composer Olesia Onykiienko/Kyiv, better known in the electronic music scene by her stage name NFNR (Neither Famous Nor Rich).
Olesia Onykiienko / NFNR writes music for films, theater and installations and is a curator of the Womens Sound platform and the NGO Institute of Sound. NFNR uses techno with industrial elements, drone and ambient that takes you even further into experimental soundscapes.
DTF Magazine ranks NFNR among the TOP 10 female DJs and producers on the Kyiv scene.
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Selected works and projects
- Autopoiesis ( full video or teaser ) an experimental performative audiovisual installation and film directed by Matilda Marina // created for a residency The Palace Collective, 2020
- Sonatas of SleepLess / Ars Electronica 2018, Linz Austria 6-channel live performance with piezo sensors
- Beggar audiovisual performance for ap:ART residency 2020 [Poltawa/Berlin] in collaboration with Johnny Quest (performer) and Boreal Cami vj-ing
- Audio installation Bubny Voices for the Performance Crossings Festival Prague 2020, exhibited in Holešovická Šachta, finished as an audio release on the label
Selected Audio Releases
- Corridor Audio Global Modular Traffic 2/3 (2019)
- Nachtkultur , Cashmere Radio 2021
- Oi, zaviom vienki` Mokosho 2019 EP (music, arrangement, vocal as part of Mokosho folk art laboratory)
Selected Soundscape Works
- Nyvka soundscape/fieldrecording interactive composition for RIVERSSSOUNDS residency 2021
- Soundwalk for Riversssounds 2021
- Bubny voice soundscape album 2020
- Transport system Listening to the city 2016
- Showerscape for Sonic Terrain
Selected plays
Art residencies
- 2021 Riversssounds
- 2021 Taking the Stage 2.0 – DCCC
- 2020 ap:ART [Poltava/Berlin]
- 2020 Nachtkultur / Cashmere Radio Berlin & VCRC Kyiv / 2020
- 2020 Budapest Hotel Art Residency , Yasynia
- 2020 Performance Crossings Prague
- 2020 London ‘Various stages` Mahogany Opera Group , Battersea arts centre, London
- 2019 Catch a cat/ Berlin 2019
- 2019 Nad Bohom Vynnytsia 2019
- 2019 Nachtkultur / Cashmere Radio Berlin & VCRC Kyiv / 2019
- 2019 Hooligan / theatrical residency at Mystetskyi Arsenal 2019
- 2018 Shifting Perspectives: Merging Approaches to Arts and Activism / Fahren, Germany Oct 2018
- 2018 Construction festival residency, Dnipro / with K.Berlova, exhibition REALITY , Art Svit Gallery
- 2018 `86`Urban residency, Slavutych /project with K.Berlova
Selected Performances
- Performance Crossings 2020 / Prague, Nyege Nyege & CTM Berlin 2020
- `Ozveny sezóny. Mini-festival nezávislé ukrajinské kultury` Cross Atticc / Prague 2019
- STWST48x4Sleep – ARS ELECTRONICA associated event / Linz, Austria2018
- Sound night #5 Panke.gallery / Berlin 2018
- 3:e Våningen / Gothenburg, SE 2018
- Centre Culturel et d’information de l’Ambassade d’Ukraine /Paris, France 2017
- Awaji Art Circus / Awaji, Japan 2016
Curatorial Projects
- WOK international electronic music residency 2021
- V:UNCASE sound-art residency 2020 Zhytomyr
- Womens Sound since 2019
- Nad Bohom 2019 Vinnytsia
