elekhlekha อีเหละเขละขละ
Kengchakaj–เก่งฉกาจ and Nitcha–ณิชชา.
Kengchakaj–เก่งฉกาจ and Nitcha–ณิชชา.
elekhlekha อีเหละเขละขละ is a collaborative research-based group consisting of Thai diaspora Bangkok-born, Brooklyn-based artists, Kengchakaj–เก่งฉกาจ and Nitcha–ณิชชา. The collective delves into subversive storytelling by exploring non-hegemonic sounds and visual archives, historical research–decoding, and unlearning biases. elekhlekha’s work spans performing documents, multimedia, and technology centers to interrogate, experiment, explore, and define decolonized possibilities. A Thai word, elekhlekha means dispersedly, chaos, all over, and non-direction to break free our practices from being labeled through a Western lens.
In 2022, they were awarded the Lumen Prize Gold Award. The artists have received grants and development funds from Rhizome, the Processing Foundation, Lincoln Center, and more for their projects. elekhlekha was a 2024 Eyebeam Democracy Machine Fellow, 2023–2024 AIR at CultureHub, and a Y10 Art & Code track member.