Sille Kima ~ Keywords: light, performance, sound, silent brilliances, speculative worldbuilding, non-linear time, land justice, reinscribing the post-soviet, ecological sensibility, connecting the anti-imperial movements

Sille Kima is an artist and a musician whose work is rooted in the haptics of the sonic. Their work ascribes to the poethics the embodied practices of the Finno-Ugric oral tradition, staying grateful to the black Black Radical thought. She works with her vocal as her main instrument for making spatiotemporally located sound installations, live performances, radio plays, spoken word and artist films in support of a work of nonlinear and speculative worldbuilding towards reinscribing the crooked grammars of affection formed by ongoing legacies of exploitation, melting towards liberation. Recently, their work is centered around light – an element simultaneously holding the possibility of both enormous violence and nourishing warmth. 

They have played live shows at Sabbath (90mil Berlin), UNM festival (Reykjavik) and Daylight Project (Tallinn) and collaborated for radio shows on Dublab LA, Montez Press New York, radio Alhara, Lyl radio and Radiophrenia Glasgow. Their performances and installative work have recently been shown at GAMU (Prague), Dammweg & Para/text (Berlin), Water Tower (Viljandi), Kanal (Võru), Centrale di Fies (AEROPONIC ACTS), NIDA Art Colony (with DAI) and Salina (with DAI), and they have been to residencies at Mustarinda, pAIR, Kordon and NART. She also occasionally teaches at the intersection of land justice and solidarity at the Estonian Academy of Arts and is one of the founders of Kreenholm Plants in the border town of Narva.

*Learn more about Sille Kima's 20 minute performance All sun quiet down, all light pass through you for Chameleon Orbit ~ DAI's Aeroponic Acts 2024 at Centrale Fies in Italy. 

*Learn more about Sille Kima's written MA thesis (DAI, 2024): Towards molten light, deep dark

*During her journey with DAI, Sille made significant contributions to: COOP Summit 2023: NIGHTTIME SCREAMING/DAYTIME WHISPERING ~ A Creational Story in Four Acts as well as COOP SUMMIT 2024 ~ Assembling Land: Rehearsals towards Place-making

*Follow Sille's 'Life after DAI' via their website: https://sillekima.com as well as instagram