Adam Dove | Nexcyia
(b.1995 Paris, France)
Officially known as Adam Dove, Nexcyia is an African-American/French sound artist and experimental ambient musician based between London and Paris. Working with found sound, Nexcyia weaves together harsh sound design and swooping soundscapes into works that bridge many moods, emotions and places through noise, granular synthesis, textures and rhythms.
Dove is a fine artist and researcher holding an MA in Contemporary Art Practice from the Royal College of Art and a BA in Sound Arts from the University of the Arts London. His fine art practice focuses on the notions of alienation and otherness in the African-American experience and explores this through sculpture, installation, painting, sound, and moving image.
Nexcyia has released Origin EP on Takuroku, Crawl EP on Alien Jams and has performed in various venues/festivals such as the ICA, Barbican Centre, Cafe OTO, Chisenhale Gallery Primavera Sound, IKLECTIK and more.
Education
2019 -2021 • MA • Royal College of Art • Contemporary Art Practice
2015-2018 • BA Honours • University of the Arts London • Sound Arts
2014-2015 • Foundation Diploma • Camberwell College of Art • Film Practice
2008-2014 • International Baccalaureate • Ermitage International School of France
Upcoming shows and work
Feb 1st ICA, London
Feb 9th IKLEKTIC, London
Feb 26th Cango (Centro nazionale di produzione Virgilio Sieni) – Black History Month – Florence
March 2nd Chisenhale Gallery – Ravelle Pillay – Idyll – Live Performance
March 11th Collective Ending – Formless Anxiety
March 24th Patchworks – Sound in Light II – Day 1, London
March 25th Patchworks – Sound in Light II – Day 2, London
April 21st La Casa Encendida – Madrid, Spain
April 29th Roter Salon w\ LXV – Berlin, Germany
May 19th – Grey Space in the Middle – Hague, Netherlands
Selected Solo, Group Exhibitions, Performances
2022
Café OTO – Archaic Vaults
Reference Point 180 Studios: Diasporas Now
Soup Manchester – Index Records with NEXCYIA, NUEEN + Conna Haraway and Slowfoam
Pipe Factory (Glasgow) with NEXCYIA, NUEEN + Conna Haraway and Slowfoam
Barbican Centre – Caterina Barbieri & Nexcyia
SET Dalston – SUBSET #1 with NEXCYIA, PENTU, EYE MEASURE etc…
BY:LARM Festival – Oslo, Norway
Venue MOT – LOOSE TRAX: Alien Jams Special
IKLECTIK with Ashcircle, Jo Montgomerie, Calling Cards Publishing (Apologies in Advance #17)
Wire Magazine – Below the Radar 40 at The Spanners
Fade Soundscape – UFONIC w/Wordcolour (Live Performance)
Primavera Sound Festival (Barcelona, Spain) Primavera a la Ciutat @ LAUT
Avalon Cafe – AGGREGATOR – (Live Performance)
Venue MOT – NEXCYIA + EXAEL + SPECIAL GUEST DJ + MU TATE + NIL + MISTAREEZ + ARAD ACID (Live Performance)
Cafe OTO – NEXCYIA + MU TATE + RACINE (Live Performance)
Pleasure Gallery with mu tate, Performance, Brisol, UK
2021
Candid Gallery “untitled”, Group Exhibition, London, UK
Space289 with aircode & Malik Nashad Sharpe, Susu Laroche, London, UK
Iklectik with astridsonne , London, UK
Café OTO, with mu tate, malvern-brume, Louise Le Du, London, UK
Cafe OTO, aircode and Ewa Awe & Kyyberwall , London, U
Institut Francais du Royaum-Uni w/ Agathe Max + Charlotte Kaslin , London, UK
Cromwell Place: Royal College of Art, MA Contemporary Art Practice Group Show, London, UK RCA2021 – Online Exhibition
Most Dismal Swamp at Corsica Studios, London, UK
2020
South Kiosk Gallery, Imminent Vibrational Logic, [Online Exhibition and Performance]
XOLO x Threads*Takeovers [Online Performance]
302_Redirect – 1992, Institute of Contemporary Art [Online Exhibition]
Cherche Encore 7 : Spring [Online Performance]
Ambient Rituals: aircode, mu tate, Racine SET Dalston, London, UK
W.I.P Show – Royal College of Art, Dyson Gallery, London, UK
2019
Anti-Prom Performance, Bussey Building, London, UK
Gaze to the UNKNOWN at Mimosa house, London, UK
Fallacy video and sound installation- with Sara Serroit, Neu workshop, Munich, GER
“La Nostalgie du Future” Show Two: Design – Central Saint Martins, London, UK
2022
Radio Sygma Compilation – Track Commission
https://radiosygma.bandcamp.com/album/3
ShowStudio – Generation – Video Commission https://www.showstudio.com/projects/bodies-of-knowledge/generation-nexcyia?autoplay=1 ShowStudio – Vagina by Celine Pierron – Video Commission (Collaboration) https://www.showstudio.com/projects/bodies-of-knowledge/vagina-celine-pierron?autoplay=1 Wire Magazine: July 2022 Mix
https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/wire-mix-nexcyia
hydro (self-release)
https://nexcyia.bandcamp.com/track/hydro
2021
Alien Jams – Human (un-fold)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_gURZtTDEw&ab_channel=AlienJams
Romane Courdacher – “ You should sit here when the evening bathes the castled mind in gold” Off-World Suburbia, Gibberd Gallery Lazarus by Ibrahim Mahama, White Cube gallery, London, UK
VIRTUALLY REALITY – Lonely Room in My Head [online]
Euphonic Rhythms – Rhythmia, Vol. III [online]
Archaic Vaults ‘Continuing A Worn Out Tradition II’, London, UK Katharsis Label – No Limits, All Love [online]
2020
Mahenderparl Soraya – Saeculum for BFI South Asian Film Festival
https://www.fringeofcolour.co.uk/saeculum
Peter Spanjer – Come inside of me, White Cube, London [online] https://whitecube.viewingrooms.com/content/feature/927/artworks-9805-peter-spanjer-come-inside-of-me-2020/ Romane Courdacher – Off-World Suburbia, London, UK https://vimeo.com/435911728?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=117585395
ORIGIN EP – Café OTO
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/nexcyia-origin/
Crawl EP – Alien Jams
https://alienjams.bandcamp.com/album/crawl-ep
2019
Fallacy video and sound installation- with Sara Serroit
CSM Show Two: Design – “La Nostalgie du Future” , London, UK Radio Sygma – Crawl Space – Σ2, Russia
Past Radio
2022
Noods Radio – 3-months Residency – Nexcyia
NTS: Post-Geography w/ Nexcyia
Balamii Radio: January – Nexcyia
2021
RTM.FM with Cherche Encore
NTS: Beau Beaumont & Nexcyia
Balamii Radio: December – Nexcyia
Balamii Radio: October – Nexcyia
Balamii Radio: September – Nexcyia
Balamii Radio: August – Nexcyia
Balamii Radio: July – Nexcyia
Internet Public Radio: Variations (KMRU) – Nexcyia
Noods Radio: OOH-sounds w/Nexcyia
Eye Measure: w/Nexcyia – 1020.Live
2020
NTS: Alien Jams
Noods Radio: Edited Arts Guestmix
NTS: Mutualism
Montez Press Radio 302_Redirect
Collection Liberee MEMETIC XV – Nexcyia @n10-as
Jerome Worldwide
radiosygma GUEST 95 Adam Dove: World Surface Tension (Moscow, Russia)
2019
Threads Radio – International Winners w/ Adam Dove (NYC,USA) Internet Public Radio – Adam Dove (Guadalajara, Mexico)
Radio Sygma – GUESTS 82 Adam Dove (Moscow, Russia) BAS.PODCAST050 – Adam Dove (Warsaw, Poland)
Residencies
2020-current HQI (White City, London)
2019-2020 – Pol Bury Atelier, Perdreauville, Île-de-France
Selected Commissions and Collaborations
2021
Romane Courdacher – “ You should sit here when the evening bathes the castled mind in gold” Off-World Suburbia, Gibberd Gallery, Harlow, UK Lazarus by Ibrahim Mahama, White Cube gallery, London, UK
VIRTUALLY REALITY – Lonely Room in My Head [online]
Euphonic Rhythms – Rhythmia, Vol. III [online]
Archaic Vaults ‘Continuing A Worn Out Tradition II’, London, UK
Katharsis Label – No Limits, All Love [online]
2020
Mahenderparl Soraya – Saeculum for BFI South Asian Film Festival
Peter Spanjer – Come inside of me, White Cube, London [online]
Romane Courdacher – Off-World Suburbia, London, UK
2019
Fallacy video and sound installation- with Sara Serroit
CSM Show Two: Design – “La Nostalgie du Future” , London, UK Radio Sygma – Crawl Space – Σ2, Russia
Selected press and Interviews
2022
The Wire Magazine – July 2022 – (461) Interview with Rob Turner https://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/461
2021
Theory Therapy – n*30
Ransom Note, Nexcyia: Monday is “Ok” Mix
Stamp the Wax – Reduced by Nexcyia
Clot Magazine – transcending space while discussing sound as a vehicle for escape
Josh Mcloughlin: [Review] Tongue of blade ‡ Ears of mud (Cap Records), New Critique, September 2021
Fact Magazine – Alien Jams & Recsund tune in to extraterrestrial frequencies, London, UK
2020
The Wire Magazine – Below The Radar, Vol. 35
Black Bandcamp Presents, Public Records, New York City, USA
DJMAG – Premiere Nexcyia “24dec” Alien Jams
Resident Advisor – Debut EP “Crawl”
Links
https://www.stampthewax.com/2021/04/22/reduced-by-nexcyia/ https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/btr/below-the-radar-35/5 https://www.factmag.com/2021/01/08/alien-jams-recsund-tunein/ https://newcritique.co.uk/2021/09/28/review-tongue-of-blade-%E2%80%A1-ears-of-mud-cap-records-josh-mcloughlin/
https://www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/nexcyia-the-monday-is-ok-mix/ https://www.nts.live/artists/100151-nexcyia
https://2021.rca.ac.uk/students/adam-dove/
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