Experience Art through Sound and Vision
Welcome to my digital space, where sound, movement, and visual art converge. Explore an interdisciplinary practice that bridges contemporary electronic exploration, performance, and community-rooted storytelling.
Bio
Kiba (they/them) moves fluidly between sound, movement, and text, operating as an essential cultural connector across New York’s contemporary art and nightlife ecosystems. Their artistic foundation is shaped by decades of immersion in underground club culture, vinyl selection, and interdisciplinary inquiry. More recently, their practice has expanded to bring Japanese folk traditions directly onto the vibrant dance floors of New York. Through these experiences as a DJ, they craft genre-transcending sets that tell compelling musical stories. Ultimately guided by themes of love, wellness, and social justice, Kiba's approach deeply resonates with diverse communities across art, culture, and music.
Their live sets are further elevated by a striking visual presence. Rooted in self-styled performance costumes and fluid choreography, these visual choices function as an integral sculptural element of their work. Guided by an ethos of community care, bodily autonomy, and radical joy, Kiba continues to evolve by exploring the possibilities of rap and multilingual performance. This interdisciplinary trajectory shapes their recent works, including the sound composition Sudden Reentry to Martian Pachinko (2026), the autobiographical essay Ningen Mirror Ball (2026), and performances such as Dance Spirit in Stone: Awa Odori at the Noguchi Museum (2025), Still, Waters Run Deep at Rock Paper Scissors (2025), and OBE / Desatar / Jisei (自生) at the Loisaida Center (2025). Across these projects, Kiba treats performance, sound, and text as interconnected forms through which memory becomes a shared, embodied experience.
人間味 - Ningen Mirror Ball
An autobiographical essay by Hiromi Kiba tracing a journey from Japan to New York City. The text explores memory, cultural identity, and resilience, framing the rhythm of life and human imperfections through the metaphor of a mirror ball.
Audio Works
An evolving collection of original music produced in Ableton Live 12, collaborative sound and visual works, and recorded poetry performances bridging sound art, rhythm, and spoken word.
Love Injection Fanzine & Records
Love Injection Fanzine & Records is an independent Brooklyn-based print publication and record label documenting underground club culture and vinyl history.
From 2019 to 2022, Kiba wrote the recurring column Music and Spirituality, examining how deep listening and dance floor movement act as spiritual practices. Alongside their writing, Kiba contributed to the fanzine's ongoing independence by modeling for mutual aid merchandise campaigns, directly supporting the publication's survival.
Project
This space maps ongoing engagements at the intersection of grassroots solidarity, transformative justice, and live culture. Explore these collaborative initiatives to see how text, sound, and movement function as living tools for collective healing, memory, and social structural re-imagination.
Family Workshop: Awa Odori
9/21/2025 @ Noguchi Museum 9-01 33rd Rd, Astoria, NY 11106
A unique program celebrating the rhythmic vitality and poetic spirit of Isamu Noguchi’s Awa Odori (1982). The event bridged visual art and movement, inviting participants to explore sculpture through the lenses of poetry, music, and dance.
Photographer: Yoshinori Nito, Photo Copyright: ©The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum / Artists Rights Society
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Poetry Performance Video
An ongoing digital record of live experimentation, documenting creative dialogues with visual and sound artists, solo sound design, and multilingual rap. These archives capture the evolving scope of performance residencies, newly premiered and screened works, and text-based experimentation across diverse venues.
Sound Selection as DJ Kibachan
Performing as DJ Kibachan, Kiba brings a genre-fluid, expressive sound selection to the dance floor. Sets have spanned monthly residencies at Nightmoves and Tokyo Record Bar, previous appearances at Jupiter Disco, and a summer residency at Ace Hotel Brooklyn in 2024.
Beyond nightlife, DJ Kibachan frequently brings this selector practice to community and arts programming, including the closing reception for hc(X)change at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts / Blackburn 20/20 Gallery and the Community Supported Agriculture season finale at St. Nicholas Miracle Garden in Harlem.
Kiba also performed as the wedding DJ for artist Sydney Shen at the TWA Hotel, utilizing an unconventional, forward-thinking soundtrack to shape the celebration.
ACLU Charity Auction
10/5/2025 @ Nightmoves 295 Grand St Brooklyn NY 11211
Hosting this charity auction at Nightmoves captured the wild, soulful energy of New York nightlife channeled toward a vital cause. It was a privilege to contribute sound to this ACLU fundraiser, hosted by Christina Topsoe of The Four Horsemen and Kim Hastreiter of Paper Magazine.
Photo: Miki Yamato
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Media, Mentions & Contributions
An archival overview of writing, public radio appearances, and sound selections—documenting ongoing dialogues across dance floors, community spaces, and contemporary art.
Kiba