Nastassja Simensky
Studio B8
Nastassja is an artist and researcher whose work engages with critical heritage and the uneven impacts of global regimes on local places. She often works collaboratively with artists and non-artists, producing both authored and co-authored works. Her work takes varied forms, including a live performance staged with a string quartet on a cockleboat on the Thames Estuary, a choir in a limestone quarry and a 7th-century chapel; amateur radio transmissions of text and image; sound works for radio and tape; moving-image works; and poetic texts. Over the past five years, she has been working with the nuclear geography of Bradwell on the Blackwater Estuary, developing a new body of work spanning film, performance, sound and radio transmission.
Nastassja coordinates the Archaeology-Heritage-Art Research Network, a platform engaging with the politics and processes of archaeology to inform embedded, experimental, and collaborative art practices. She is one half of MOIST, an independent press based in Nottingham, publishing literary fiction, experimental non-fiction and poetry.
Selected commissions and residencies include: Making Time Artangel residency, 2025/26; ARTICA Svalbard, Artist in Residence, Nominated by OCA Norway, 2024; New Present Tense, Feminist Autonomous Centre for research (FAC), Athens, 2024; Postscript of Silence, McaM, Shanghai, 2023; A Slip of Telecine, with Coated spirits for FADE Radio, 2023; Leaky Transmissions, Arts Catalyst Curatorial Residency, 2022; Receiver, Focal Point Gallery; Rings on Water, FPG Sounds commission, 2022; Art and Archaeology residency at West Dean College of Art and Conservation; Critical Disturbance at Crafting a Sonic Urbanism: Listening to Non-Human Life, Theatrum Mundi; SHERDS, Nottingham Contemporary; Zu Gast bei den KunstVereinenRuhr, Urbane Kunst Ruhr.
