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a r!tual s3ns0r!um f0r sacred d!s0r!ent4t!on, f0lkl0re & r3-ench4ntm3nt


Kiki Kazimi (b. 1999, Cork, Ireland), an Irish-Dutch artist based in Amsterdam. Working across moving image, performance, sound and installation, her practice explores the subversive potential of the body, ritual and technology, with an interest in folklore, spirituality, contemporary subcultures and other forms of embodied knowledge.

Her work moves between the intimate and the political, drawn to experiences that disrupt fixed ideas of what is rational, permissible or real. Through audiovisual and performative forms, she explores desire, pain, pleasure, vulnerability and altered states, as well as the ways bodies and forms of knowledge are shaped by social structures, belief and power.

A recurring interest in her practice is re-enchantment: the possibility of summoning other ways of seeing, sensing and relating into the present. Rather than treating magic as an escape from the contemporary world, her work approaches ritual, folklore and irrationality as tools for questioning dominant systems of knowledge and making space for what has been suppressed, overlooked or rendered impossible. It moves between subversion and tenderness, intimacy and transgression, seeking moments where the boundaries between the material and the unseen begin to blur.

Kiki Kazimi is currently completing a BA in Moving Image at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Her work has been presented through exhibitions, screenings, performances, festivals and radio projects in Amsterdam and internationally, including at EYE Film Institute, Vondelbunker, De Nieuwe Anita, æther artspace in Sofia and No Name La Nature Festival in Liège.








NOTE ON “P_RN”


When I use the term p_rn in my work, I do so in the sense of post-p_rn: a movement that critically engages with the politics of representation, desire, embodiment, and power beyond mainstream pornography. Rooted in feminist, queer, and anti-capitalist discourse, post-p_rn challenges normative narratives of sexuality, reclaims agency over the body, and explores intimacy, power, and pleasure through radical, subversive, and artistic lenses. All festivals I work with share these ethics.