Khrystyna Kirik

Khrystyna Kirik is a Ukrainian sound and media artist whose practice moves between live performance, installation, field recording, found-object instrumentation, electronics, and voice. Her work approaches sound as a primary medium of investigation into what escapes direct perception — translating imperceptible phenomena into sensory experience and distributing agency across human and non-human materials, bodies, and environments.

Her recent EP State of Latitude was released on Standard Deviation in January 2026. A SHAPE+ 2024 artist, her work has been presented at CTM Festival Berlin, Kantine am Berghain, Conflux Festival Rotterdam, Interstice Festival Normandy, UH Fest Budapest, Sonica Presents Glasgow, Skanu Mezs White Night Riga, XJazz! Festival Berlin, and Le Phénix Valenciennes, among others.

upcoming events

2026

Apr 12 – Rewire, Hague, Netherlands

Apr 24 – Jazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland

selected works

The Core (Khrystyna Kirik × Mark Bain), 2025
live sound and vibration performance

Subwoofer and ultra-subwoofer systems activate the architecture itself as a resonant structure, channeling seismic data recorded across Ukraine between 2022 and 2025 – missile strikes and explosions in Kharkiv and Kherson, the destruction of the Kakhovka dam, earthquakes, and the continuous tremor of ongoing conflict – converted into audible sound and low-frequency vibration. The performance translates the seismic traces of war into a physically felt experience, moving beyond hearing into the body itself.

State of Latitude
(Khrystyna Kirik × u2203 studio (Myk Rudik, Alen Has) × Anna Kuzemko), 2024
four-part audiovisual installation

Built from field data, archival photographs, and ecological records, with sound weaving together a traditional Ukrainian steppe song (Hilka collective, 1996) with electronic and environmental recordings. Four natural territories scarred by the full-scale invasion – Sviati Hory, Syvash, Velykyi Chapelskyi Pid, and Kamianska Sich – are documented through ecological research and interviews with a biologist. Each chapter holds a specific landscape: its ecosystems, its rhythms, and the precise damage military activity has inflicted upon them. The work treats these places not as symbols of loss, but as concrete environments with their own processes, species, and thresholds of survival.

Sub-sur-face, 2024
audiovisual installation

Using 3D scanning as its primary visual method, the work dissolves anatomical form into fluid, porous digital textures – rendering skin, internal resonances, and spatial thresholds as shifting terrain. The digitized body becomes a living topography, mapped through sonic and visual cartographies of its surface and interior. The installation moves through posthuman questions of vulnerability and identity, treating the human figure not as a fixed form, but as something permeable, unstable, and continuously recomposed.

Tree, 2024
interactive sound sculpture

Found materials – metal, plastic, glass, foam, moss, bullet casings, string, piezo pickup, and neon light — assembled into a hybrid form that holds damage and growth at once. Shattered, crumpled, scarred, and living things coexist in a single structure: destruction and flowering occupying the same body. The sculpture invites interaction, drawing visitors into its liminal space.

Sonic Climates
(Khrystyna Kirik × Elod Máté Janky × Peter Teller), 2024
sound installation with live electroacoustic improvisation

Electrical micro-variations captured from living plant tissues are translated into parameters for sound synthesis, with florariums forming the installation's central physical presence. Responding to shifts in humidity, temperature, and human proximity, the plants generate a continuously evolving soundscape – one that is never composed, only grown. Into this, the performers listen and adapt, their improvisation shaped by signals that are neither musical nor human in origin. The work proposes a shared ecology – attentive, reciprocal – in which plants act as active biological agents within a more-than-human whole.

Cube (Khrystyna Kirik × Nick Acorn), 2023
interactive sound installation

A permeable architectural structure embedded with proximity and motion sensors channels visitors' bodies, gestures, and movement through probabilistic real-time mappings into a four-channel spatial soundscape – textures, grains, and sonic trajectories shifting continuously with each presence and passage. No interaction produces the same result twice. Agency is distributed across visitors, materials, and the system itself, making the Cube less an instrument to be played than a shared spatial environment that plays itself through collective inhabitation.

releases

State of Latitude

Standard Deviation, 2026

Soundtrack I She Her

Selfrelease, 2024

Liky Pid Nohamy, 2024

Corridor Audio, 2024

Phantoms Of Perception

Flaming Pines, 2024

Pohlyad Vseredynu

Telesma, 2024

live performances

Conflux Festival, 2025

Sub-sur-face, 2024

Cxema Because, 2024

Tree, 2024

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