Kabir Carter

Kabir Carter shapes sound’s residues and traces flows of spatial intensities between humans, more-than-humans, architectural structures, and communication architectures. His research interests include dance, popular and experimental music, architectural acoustics, affective potentialities of sound-in-space, and histories of infrastructure. He has performed with and installed work within a variety of sites and environments including bodies of water, parks, industrial sites, theaters, art exhibition spaces, walkways, passages, staircases, and elevators. Carter’s work has been presented and exhibited at Diapason Gallery, New York; The Drawing Center, New York; GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen; HKW – Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Inter Arts Center, Malmö; Human Resources, Los Angeles; ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn; Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde; Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; Pageant, Brooklyn; and Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. He has participated in Bergen Assembly, CTM (club transmediale), Festival Bonn Hoeren, Full Pull, Performa Biennial, Sonic Acts Festival, Tuned City Brussels, and Unsound Festival New York. Carter has been a Danish Arts Council DIVA Programme awardee, a fellow at Hochschule Für Bildende Kunste Braunschweig, and a resident at LMCC Workspace Program, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. He serves as Music/Sound Co-Chair at Bard MFA, where he has taught since 2017.