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Adam Kaasa


Interdisciplinary scholar, facilitator, musician and performance artist. Their artistic and research interests span archives, cities, space [urban and outer], feelings, sound, voice, critical dialogue, facilitation and performance.

Holding degrees from the University of Alberta, the London School of Econonics and Political Science and Trinity College London, Adam co-founded and Directed Theatrum Mundi, an international research center on the visual/performing arts in urban culture. Current research examines queer and feminist archival explorations of ‘Andromeda,’ through histories of myth and astronomy, engaging performance, sound, and archival materials. Recent shows: Matt’s Gallery (2024), Swedenborg Hall (2023), PAF (France, 2023), Gallery Augusta (Helsinki 2023). They have published widely in journals like AA Files, Design Issues (MIT), and edited collections like Queereal Secretions and Stories of Cosmopolitan Belonging.

Adam co-founded the research network Fiction Feeling Frame (2020) and curated RELAY, a 24-hour durational performance commissioned by the Venice Biennale (2021). Adam leads on research at RCA like Sites and Situations, _SPACE, and Sound@RCA. Previously a Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto, Adam has curated numerous international exhibitions (London, Berlin, Rio, Athens). Select collaborations include Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Museu de Arte do Rio and Museu do Amanhã, University of São Paulo, NYU, Columbia, MIT, Harvard, the Southbank, the EIBF, Whitechapel, Tate.

Adam writes, records and performs music as Bliss Carmxn. 

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From ‘Frames of Love, or Love’s Perspective’ (2018)

‘Love’s perspective might be a window into someone’s life. Or perhaps it is more like a signal that one sees and likes and recognizes what another or other put/s forward as a framed structure of their feeling of life.’
- Adam Kaasa
From ‘Feeling Bodies of Architecture: Towards an Incommensurable Pedagogy’ (2023)

‘Space, time, energy must be made for the bodies of architecture to be present in this new pedagogic performance, for feeling in both senses of the word to happen, for bodies that have moved to be moved again, by and through each other.’
- Adam Kaasa