Kira Kira M

Iceland, b. 1977.

Kira Kira, Kristín Björk Kristjánsdóttir, is a founding member of Icelandic art collective Kitchen Motors. For the past 10 years or so she has tinkered with noises in bands such as Spúnk (not to be confused with the Swedish one missing the comma), Big Band Brútal, Stórsveit Sigrídar Níelsdóttur and as Kira Kira since autumn 1999 in a Tokyo nightmare. She has composed music for theatre, dance and movies and performed and exhibited in various odd places in the world – on shelves, in church towers and park-ing lots.

Kristín’s visual work is often a staged as a haunted atmosphere of some sort, created with sound, smoke, wind and light presented in installations or on film: Singing black holes, blood driven cowboy hats hovering in thin air, a duel between smoke machines in castle towers, beset tape recorders, eternal explosions, trembling doors and some-one who died from laughter or romance.

/LARM

Links:

www.this.is/kirakira

www.kitchenmotors.com