Royal College of Art

Dr Adam Jovanović Kaasa is a London-based artist, researcher and performer working with voice, song and archival materials to explore emotional geographies, queerness and the politics of becoming public. Their performances and sound works move between lecture, ritual and pop, often testing how intimacy travels through amplification and space. Under the name Bliss Carmxn, they write and produce indie/alt-pop with folk and electronic roots, combining confessional songwriting with experimental production. They are a Senior Research Tutor at the Royal College of Art and co-lead the MFA Arts & Humanities, where they develop research-led, publicly engaged pedagogy and collaborative projects across art and space. They are a member of Sound@RCA.

Sound@RCA brings together researchers from the RCA whose work focuses on sound and reflects its growing and vital role within art, design, architecture and history research. The group represents a wide range of technical and technological capacities and insights, sound-based formats (from large-scale immersive work through the intimacy of song) and disciplinary points of departure. Sound@RCA has met regularly since Autumn 2024 to encourage knowledge-sharing, network-building and cross-disciplinary collaborations.