Kiva Sakona
Kiva Sakona
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My work moves between video, installation, text and live situations. Interested in everyday aesthetic experiences as they intertwine with the ways late capitalism captures desire, I attend to the visual and temporal conditions of today’s audiovisual reality. I explore how images are bound up with a spirit of productivity, and how they become entangled with bodily experience, imagination and a sense of what is real. I work through narratives, situations and conditions in which images arrive in forms that hold these questions.

I have participated in artist residencies and presented work across Portugal, Japan, the Netherlands and Spain, with work forthcoming in Colombia. I am a PhD candidate in Artistic Research at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam and a member of TARR (Third Cycle in Artistic Research) at the Rietveld Academy. I hold a research master’s degree in Artistic Research from the University of Amsterdam, a master’s degree in Film Art Direction from ESCAC (Film and Audiovisual School of Catalonia), a bachelor’s degree in Audiovisual Communication from the University of the Basque Country, and a degree in Graphic Design from BAU (College of Arts and Design in Barcelona). In 2017, I co-founded What The Studio, a graphic design and creative direction studio, which I continue to run. Full CV available upon request.

email: kivasakona@gmail.com • instagram: @kivasakona

My work moves between video, installation, text and live situations. Interested in everyday aesthetic experiences as they intertwine with the ways late capitalism captures desire, I attend to the visual and temporal conditions of today’s audiovisual reality. I explore how images are bound up with a spirit of productivity, and how they become entangled with bodily experience, imagination and a sense of what is real. I work through narratives, situations and conditions in which images arrive in forms that hold these questions.

I have participated in artist residencies and presented work across Portugal, Japan, the Netherlands and Spain, with work forthcoming in Colombia. I am a PhD candidate in Artistic Research at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam and a member of TARR (Third Cycle in Artistic Research) at the Rietveld Academy. I hold a research master’s degree in Artistic Research from the University of Amsterdam, a master’s degree in Film Art Direction from ESCAC (Film and Audiovisual School of Catalonia), a bachelor’s degree in Audiovisual Communication from the University of the Basque Country, and a degree in Graphic Design from BAU (College of Arts and Design in Barcelona). In 2017, I co-founded What The Studio, a graphic design and creative direction studio, which I continue to run. Full CV available upon request. 

email: kivasakona@gmail.com
instagram: @kivasakona