Acell Shaldibayeva is an artist and DJ from Almaty, Kazakhstan. She is also the co-founder of the techno club bULt, which comprehends topics such as traditions and rituals, decolonial optics, queer feminism, and its place and role in the reality of Kazakhstan and Central Asia by regularly holding techno parties, film screenings of non-mainstream art films, supporting research and art projects, and conducting master classes, lectures, poetry readings and exhibitions.
As a sound artist, Shaldibayeva was part of the ORTA collective, which engages in modern performance practices and participated in the NONAME 2021 festival at the Meyerhold Centre, Moscow. Together with Kazakh poet Anuar Duisenbinov, she also runs a series of sound poetry experiments to create a sound environment with ambient layers and electronic beats, in which sound and text are woven into a single fabric, reinforcing each other and erasing the boundaries between them.
Shaldibayeva’s experimental mix became the musical basis for a theatrical production of the choreographic group Jolda The Voice Inside. She played at the Boiler Room’s event ‘Contemporary Scenes’ in 2021.