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I am a transdisciplinary worker practising across multivarious fields, including but not limited to, art, academia, civic infrastructure, music, social justice and spatial practice. Across this disparate terrain, these are the practices I orient towards, like signposts: art as a form of knowledge production, infrastructure as method, sound as a spatial practice, spatial practice as a form of organisation and governance as relational care.
My formal education is in Anthropology (BSc) and Urban Studies (MSc). I have worked in institutional arts (Tate, Somerset House), public spatial services (Mayor of London, Enfield Council) and most lovingly, in a variety of emerging, informal and grassroots organisations, many of which I have helped set up directly. I have no formal art training.
Currently I am the co-director of Kin Structures, and a member of Akazib Records and no.name.sound.
Arman Nouri is an artist, curator and writer. He has presented his work at The Mosaic Rooms, Barbican, the Roundhouse, Ormside Projects, Lethaby Gallery, Theatre in the Mill and the Listening Academy. He has given talks and lectures on art, infrastructure and urban planning at a variety of forums, including Central Saint Martins, University College London and Architecture Foundation. Between 2021 and 2022, he led the Mayor of London's Culture & Community Spaces at Risk programme. He is the co-founder of Kin Structures, and a member of Akazib Records and no.name.sound.
(2020–). Artist-led organisation building infrastructure for spatial justice.
(2025–). Independent record label conjuring left-field music from the concrete phantasmagoric.
(2025–). Collective prototyping infrastructure for organisers and sound system operators.
Kin Structures is an artist-led organisation building infrastructure for spatial justice. Formed at the edges of art, curation, organisational development and grassroots planning, Kin Structures models collective practice in service of spatial equity, with a particular focus on knowledge production, creative expression and capacity building.
Founded by Arman Nouri and Kwame Lowe in 2020, Kin Structures works closely and dynamically with a network of artists, educators, charities, cultural and built environment organisations. These relationships have led to long-term projects such as our partnership with Setpoint London East at the Soanes Centre (2023–); establishing, and later working in partnership with, the Save Soanes campaign; strategic alliances with groups such as Resolve Collective, Multitudes and Centre for Knowledge and Equity; and more recently, critical engagements with organisations such as John Hansard Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery and Chisenhale Gallery.
Akazib Records is an independent record label conjuring left-field music from the concrete phantasmagoric.
Founded in London in 2025, the label has released two records so far: People of the Wind (2025) and From Lips to the Moon (2026). Whilst both records refute easy categorisation, a distinct sonics is emerging; a hybrid sound shaped by improvised encounters between electronic and organic music, sharpened at the edges of techno, dub, jazz, post-punk and hip-hop, and propelled forward by a curiosity for words, voices and stories.
Akazib has also put on live shows at Cafe Oto and The Horse Hospital, where the label's artists have performed alongside a range of musicians, poets and artists, including Abbas Zahedi and bill daggs, Maureen Onwunali, Kareem Dayes, Oluwaseun Olayiwola, Ariwo, Saint Abdullah, Alya Al-Sultani and Cerpintxt.
We are no.name.sound, a collective of soundworkers, technologists and artists developing sound system infrastructure for organisers and activists.
By sound system infrastructure, we mean a system for providing, operating and maintaining sound systems. As part of this, we are also prototyping sound system designs suited to a variety of accessibility needs.
This is an emergent enquiry into how the provision of sound systems can be systematised through distributed governance processes that centre the following key values: accessibility, care, sustainability, accountability.
This work is indebted to legacies of sound system culture, political organising, black feminist technology and co-operatives, within the UK and internationally.
Here are the key strands currently being developed by the project
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