The Lyre of Elysium

Slugtown is pleased to present The Lyre of Elysium, a solo exhibition by UK-based artist Kiik Amor, presented off-site at The Shop at Sadie Coles HQ, London as part of London Gallery Weekend.

Working within the field of performance, experimental design and sonic arts, Kiik Amor’s work is based in world-building for alter-experience. They present speculative worlds that represent queer / nb / trans sonic narratives through multidisciplinary performance architectures.

Resonating through the space is a multichannel soundscape composed by Amor, recorded by placing highly sensitive contact microphones and transducers directly onto the surfaces of the harp, capturing detailed frequencies and resonances hidden from the audible range. Through a daily process of re-tuning the harp – drawing on medieval / celestial tuning systems and experimental / improvisational approaches – the instrument becomes an ever-changing generative process. With each tuning, new compositions revealed themselves with the harp remaining in a state of flux: de-tuning, re-sounding, and never fixed. The resulting spectral and layered composition is an accumulation of these shifting states. A sonic representation of the harp’s interactions with touch, air, space and time.

Throughout the course of the exhibition Kiik and invited guests will activate the harp in a series of live performances in full dressage.