Kiik Amor is a non-binary / trans artist from the UK working within the field of Experimental Design and Sonic arts. Their work is based at the intersection of information experience design, performance art, and trans-sonic worldbuilding. They present speculative hybrid worlds, exploring companion species and queer/trans sonic narratives through multidisciplinary experiences. For their artistic work, they manipulate latex, glass, and silicone to create sound sculptures that function as abstract forms of communication.

They also perform under the alias Kiik Amor; an exhilarating live performer, and experimental music composer. Kiik combines savage audio rot, broken pop melodies, and active noise to create diverse hyper-sonic worlds. Kiik detaches herself from reality through liminal performance bodies, abuse of audio and ethereal vocals, crushing any notion of tempo and key. Angelic, surreal, and disorientating music.

Current:
2024 - 2026, BALTIC / NART Residency Outcome, BALTIC Gateshead x NARVA Artist Residency, Estonia.
2024 - 2025, North East Emerging Artist Award Winner, Public Sculpture Commission, National Trust, Seaton Delaval Hall, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
2022 - 2025, Research Group, Exo-moaner’s Guide to Interplanetary Pleasures: Sex Education for Space, Experience Designer (Part-Time / Remote) Cambridge University, Cambridge.
2022 - 2025, Bhakun Design Studio, Lead Creative Director, Studio Based In London.

Forthcoming:
2026, BALTIC / NART Residency Exhibition, BALTIC Gateshead.
2025 September - November, North East Emerging Artist Award Exhibition, Public Sculpture Commission ‘The Lyre Of Elysium’, National Trust, Seaton Delaval Hall, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
2025 April, MasterClass Series, EKA / Estonian Academy Of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia.
2025 June, SlimeQrawlers Performance w/ Libby Heany, MoMi, New York.
2025 July - August, ‘Non Human Sonic Entities’, Solo Show w/ LAKE Gallery, Deptford, London.
2025, Exo-moaner’s Guide to Interplanetary Pleasures: Sex Education for Space, Exhibition + Book Launch, Cambridge University, Cambridge.
2025, Kiik Amor Album Launch + Tour, UK + EU Dates TBC.
2025, Bhakun Design / Jewellery Studio, Symbio 0.1 Jewellery / Wearable Artefact Digital Collection Launch, Lead Creative Director, Studio Based In London.

Past:
2024 November, Non-binary / Trans Performance Art / Music Event, Enclave Gallery, London.
2024 November, SHTSHTSHT , Non-binary / Trans Performance Art / Music Event, Church, London.
2024 October, Spatial Sound / Movement Performance, LAKE Gallery, Deptford, London.
2024 October, CONQUEER, Non-binary / Trans Performance Art / Music Event, Strange Brew, Bristol.
2024 August, Living Mycelium Sculpture Performance Series w/ Katya Sykes, GossamerFog / ALT-R, London.
2024 March - June, ‘HYPA-PHIXED’ Exhibition, ‘invitro’ Curator In Residence Programme, GossamerFog Gallery / Alt-R, Enclave Projects, Deptford, London.
2024 June, BUTTER PYRAMID Group Exhibition, Kupfer Gallery, London.
2024 March, EKA Artist In Residence, Estonian Academy Of Arts (Design Architecture Art Science), Jewellery & Blacksmithing, Tallinn, Estonia.
2024 January - March, BALTIC Gateshead x NART Narva Art Residency, Baltic Regions, Estonia.
2023 December, Performance w/ PHARMAKON, CHTHONIC 2 Festival, Iklectik Art Lab, London.
2023 November, Trans-Species Sonic Worlds Performance, The OVERKILL Festival (The Outburst Of The Digital Swamp), NL, Enschede.
2023 November, Trans-Formative Samhain Performance Workshop, Cobalt Studios, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
2023 September, Curation : TransLament w/ YaYa Bones + Magda Ontara + More, Experimental Music / Performance Art Event, The LubberFiend, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
2023 September, Performance Film w/ Daisy Dickenson, Sage Gateshead Re-opening Ceremony, Sage Gateshead, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
2023 August, ARIA, Omsk Social Club, 6 Day Performance Residency, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2023 August, DUST to DUST Exhibition + Performance Programme w/, Tianzhaou Chen, Wolfgang Tillmans, Roly Porter, Reiko Whitfield + More, Z Collection, London.
2023 June, Curation, TransLament w/ BORA Mure + More, Experimental Music / Performance Event, The LubberFiend, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
2023 June, Trans-Species Sonic Meditation, GutLevel, Sheffield.
2023 June, Trans-Species Sonic Meditation, Cobalt Studios, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
2023 June, Midsommar Immersive Ritual Workshop, Cobalt Studios, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
2023 May, Fiber Festival, Performance Lecture : Trans-Sonic Worldbuilding, De Brakke Grond Symposium Hall, Amsterdam.
2023 March, Outlands Festival, Workshop / T alk Panel, Non-Binary + Queer Listening Perspectives, Centrala Space, Birmingham.
2023 March, Polyphonic Lament Vinyl Release (Artificial Intelligence Informed Composition Project), Led by Eleni Ikon, Royal College Of Art, London.
2023 February, Kiik Amor (Jordan Edge) Presents Sarahsonn, Audio-Visual Performances, Cobalt Studios, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
2023 January, An8x Berlin collective AN(8)X presents a night of Intelligent and Experimental Media Art, Exhibiting Artist, Arkaoda, Berlin.
2022 December, T our De Moon, University of the Underground Artist Event, NellyBen Hayoun Studios EARTH Hackney, London.
2022 September - December, T our De Moon, University of The Underground / NellyBen Hayoun Studios, Artist in Residence / Lecturer, London.
2021 - 2022, Sound Generator UK, Sound Arts UK, Arts Council England, Artist Research & Development Residency.
2022 September, Sit Back, Relax & Enjoy The Apocalypse, Art Exposure, LaVallée Space, Brussels. 2022 June - September, Sit Back, Relax & Enjoy The Apocalypse, Artist & Curator In Residency, LaVallée Space, Brussels.
2022 September - October, Mutualism Audio-Visual Installation, Balance Festival, Leipzig.
2022 August, Mutualism Audio-Visual Installation, Traumburg Festival, Amsterdam.
2022 July, Mutualism Audio-Visual Installation, Fiber Festival , Amsterdam.
2022 June 30th, Live Performance Art, TUB Gallery, Hackney, London.
2022 June, The Royal College Of Art Communication Degree Show, Information Experience Design, The Barge House, London.
2022 May, Forces Durational Performance w/ Paddy Richardson, Cobalt Studios, Newcastle.
2022 April, Headless Collective Group Exhibition, The Island, Bristol.
2022 April, Alternative Histories Of Sound, Iklectic, London.
2022 March, Non-Binary and Queer Perspectives On Listening w/ Joshua Legallienne, Brighton Centre For Contemporary Arts, Brighton.
2022 February 15th, Improvising Your Immediate Environment, Visiting Lecturer, Royal College Of Art, London.
2021 October, Hyper Mortal Performance, Unvale Collective, Electrowerks, London.
2021 September, Sound Arts UK, Sound Generator Research & Development Presentations, Cafe Oto, London.
2021 August, SPUR.World Physical Exhibition, D.UNIT Studios, Bristol.
2021 August, Hyper Embodiment Performance, As Above So Below, The SteamShips Gallery, London.
2021 July, Hyper Embodiment Performance, Heaven Loops, London Core Space.
2021 July, Hyper Sexual Embodiment Performance, UAL University Open Studio, London.
2021 July, Hyper Sexual Embodiment Performance, Genitalia Sculpture & Media, T oward a New Spirituality, Lumen Crypt Gallery, London.
2021 June, Polyphonic Lament, Led by Eleni Ikon, Royal College Of Art , London.
2021 April - May, Async Virtual Game & Film Screening, Ling Zhang, Zuun Wang, Jordan Edge. Coutts Art Centre, Shanghai.
2021 May, Eastside Projects Birmingham, SPUR.World Gallery Partnership.
2021, SPUR.World, Virtual Exhibition Programme, Event Programme & Live Runthrough, Discussion Panel.
2021, SPUR.WORLD Virtual Ongoing Residency / School, Chaos Magick Space, Nottingham. Supported by Arts Council England, Arts University Bournemouth, School of Visual Arts New York and Liverpool John Moores. SPUR.WORLD Public Programming, 2021, Physical & Virtual Programme.
2020 September 28th - October 30th, TUSK VIRTUAL Festival.
2020 June 21st, ‘I Feel Like Our Works are Like Seeds That Grow Into New Ways of Thinking About Reality’ Beatrice Dillon In Conversation w/ Jordan Edge, Jamie Maule & Linnea Kristensen.
2020 25th June IKLECTIK [off-site] live streaming series.
2020 June, Royal College Of Art, MA Graduate Show.
2019 November, Sound Sculpture ‘Material Phonetics’, Gallery ACKUA, Kyoto, Japan.
2019 July, Sound Installation ‘Pressure Gradients’, The Auxiliary Gallery, Middlesbrough, UK.

2019 August 30th - July 7th Immateriality sonic arts tour:
30/07: Nutclough T avern Gallery, Hebden Bridge, UK (exhibition)
31/07: Wharf Chambers, Leeds, UK (exhibition)
03/08: Hundred Years Gallery, London, UK (exhibition)
04/08: Green Door Store, Brighton, UK (exhibition + performance)
06/08: Alphabetti Theatre, Newcastle, UK (exhibition + performance)
07/08: Mono, Glasgow, UK (exhibition)

2019 March, Sound Installation ‘Nonlinear’, U: Order Of Reality, Royal College of Art, White City Gallery, London.
2019 March, Sound Installation ‘Re-bodiment’, Interior Design Futures Book Launch, Crucible Press, Royal College of Art, Kensington Courtyard Gallery, London.
2018 December, Sound Installation ‘Re-bodiment’, Royal Academy 250th Anniversary, Museum Futures Exhibition, Royal Academy, London.
2018 September, Fort Process Sound Art Festival, Newhaven Fort.
2018 September, Sound Sculpture ‘Singing Polymers’ Singing Sculpture Exhibition, Cobalt Studios. 
2018 January, Sound Installation ‘Freie Korper’, Turmoil Excess Vorspiel, CTM / Transmediale Festival Berlin, Modular + Gallery, Berlin.

2017 August, 1st - 29th, A Thing Heard: Four Ways of Listening sonic arts tour:
01/08: ONCA Gallery, Brighton, UK (exhibition)
04/08: Iklectik, London, UK (exhibition)
07/08-09/08: The Auxiliary, Stockton-on-T ees, UK (exhibition) 11/08: Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK (exhibition) 13/08-14/08: Interview Room
11, Edinburgh, UK (exhibition) 16/08: Wharf Chambers, Leeds, UK (exhibition)
18/08: Brunswick Club, Bristol, UK (exhibition)
20/08: Miranda, Ace Hotel, London, UK (exhibition)
25/08: Spektrum, Berlin, DE (performance)
27/08-29/08: Modular+ Space, Berlin, DE (exhibition)

2017 July, Audio Visual Work ‘Consonantal | sonorant’, TwoFold exhibition, Barge House, London. 2017 June, Sound Installation ‘Acclimate’, Brighton Degree Show, Grand Parade, Brighton.
2016 June, Audio-Visual Installation ‘Thermo-stasis’ Design Research Conference, The Grand Hotel, Brighton.

Awards | Residencies:
2024 March - June, ‘invitro’ Curator In Residence Programme, GossamerFog Gallery / Alt-R, Enclave Projects, Deptford, London.
2024 March, EKA Artist In Residence, Estonian Academy Of Arts (Design Architecture Art Science), Tallinn, Estonia.
2024 January - March, BALTIC Gateshead, Narva Art Residency NART , Baltic Regions, Estonia.
2024 - 2025, North East Emerging Artist Award, Seaton Delaval Hall, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
2023 August, ARIA, Omsk Social Club, 6 Day Performance Residency, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2022 - 2023, Music Incubator, T our De Moon Residency, London.
2022 August - September, Sit Back, Relax & Enjoy The Apocalypse, Art Exposure, LaVallée Space, Brussels.
2022 Koumaria Medea Electonique, Artist Residency, Sellasia, Greece.
2021 March - November, Sound Generator UK, Sound Arts UK, Arts Council England, Artist Research & Development Residency.
2021, SPUR.WORLD Virtual Residency / School, Chaos Magick Space, Nottingham. Supported by Arts Council England, Arts University Bournemouth, School of Visual Arts New York and Liverpool John Moores. SPUR.WORLD Public Programming, TBA 2021, Physical & Virtual Programme.
2019 - 2020 Kyoto City University of Arts, Royal College of Arts Exchange / Bursary programme, Kyoto, Japan.
2019 Sonic Arts Emerging Artist Award, The Auxiliary, Middlesbrough.
2019 Koumaria Medea Electronique, Artist Residency, Sellasia, Greece.
2017 Seoul (South Korean) Award of Excellence, Awarded for Installation work ‘Acclimate’, Brighton Degree Show, Grand Parade, Brighton.

Education:
2018-2020 - MA, Information Experience Design, Royal College of Art
2014-2017 - BA Honors Degree, First Class Distinction, Digital Music & Sound Arts, Brighton University
2012-2014 - HND, Music Production, Gateshead College