Attack Decay Sustain Release Experiments in Sound with Sophie Huckfield, Nnena Kalu & Rebecca Kressley, Abbas Zahedi and more

Biography

ActionSpace supports young people and adults with learning disabilities across London, providing access to creative studios, professional guidance, and the support they need to grow as artists. They ensure learning disabled artists are seen and heard and fully included at the heart of the visual arts world.

Sophie Huckfield is a Stanley Picker Fellow at Kingston University. Their collaborative, political, and interdisciplinary practice draws on intersectional feminist and queer approaches, working with communities and archives to expand upon working-class histories. They also perform and DJ as Lady Ludd. For ADSR, they are working with Art & Design Foundation students at Kingston School of Art, to create Socially Useful Sonics and Instruments for a collaborative performance which incorporates archival sounds from the Broadside Mobile Workers’ Theatre and The Lucas Plan.

Nnena Kalu lives and works in London, UK. Winner of the Turner Prize 2025, Kalu’s practice is rooted in two-dimensional works, sculptures and installations. Through binding, layering and wrapping materials, Kalu explores space, scale and materiality with repetitive and durational sculptural processes. Kalu is a Resident Artist at ActionSpace and represented by Arcadia Missa.

Rebecca Kressley is an artist based in Amsterdam. Her work ranges in medium with sound as a continuum throughout. To some extent, she makes art as a response to a driving curiosity about relations between excess, intractability, sexuality and creativity. Her practice is frequently collaborative. She is currently a PhD Candidate in Philosophy of Art at Universität Mozarteum.

Lisa Slominski lives and works in London. She is a writer-curator and PhD candidate at Kingston School of Art, where her research examines how agency, identity, and representation operate in existing artworld strategies. Slominski is Senior Art Producer at Contemporary Art Society, co-founder of Art et al., and author of Nonconformers: A New History of Self-Taught Artists (Yale University Press, 2022). Her recent writing includes ‘Curating Difference’ in Art Monthly (November 2025).

Super Trouper is an evolving project organised by curator-researcher Lisa Slominski and supported by ActionSpace that centres on the artistic practices of Nnena Kalu and Rebecca Kressley. Super Trouper will continue to unfold across Attack Decay Sustain Release, wherein Kalu and Kressley work in proximity: Kalu will build new temporal sculptural works, and Kressley will generate sonic responses that consider the rhythmic and aural qualities of Kalu’s making.

Abbas Zahedi is currently a Stanley Picker Fellow and PhD Candidate at Kingston University. His major installation Begin Again (2025) is currently being presented as part of Gathering Ground at Tate Modern. For ADSR, Abbas will be working with a cohort of students from the School of Fine Art to explore the ongoing role of sound within his expanded studio practice. This includes a focus on collective listening, grief aesthetics, ambient structures, and the theoretical framework of dissociative realism – through which sound is treated as a conduit for infrastructural agency and affective detachment. Alongside this, Abbas will be collaborating with composer Thomas Boulousis, whose background in classical composition and language-based forms will intersect with the programme through a parallel line of inquiry.