Pamir Kiciman
Fluid Artist Hybridizing Word | Performance | Movement | Photography
- he / him
Pamir Kiciman is a multifaceted artist based in North Carolina’s Triangle region. His work weaves together poetry, movement, photography, and performance, often exploring themes of nature, memory, and transformation. Pamir writes about the arts, photographs dance and theatrical works, and live music, has returned to performing, and collaborated with musicians, dancers, and other creatives to bring hybrid, experiential works into being.
Pamir Kiciman's art photography appears in 86 Logic Issue 6.
He's an arts journalist and photographer for The Local Reporter in Chapel Hill.
His feature about the Spirit in the Land exhibition at Duke University's Nasher Museum of Art appeared in INDY Week.
See his Muck Rack profile for all arts and culture features.
In 2024, he was a Featured Roaming Poet organized by the Hillsborough Arts Council (NC).
His writings were selected for HOME? An Artistic Exploration of Housing in the Triangle (NC), by the Orange County Arts Commission.
Pamir returned to theater acting in the summer of 2023 and presented performances with poetry, dance, and sound elements in 2024.
His current projects continue to develop poetry and writings in performance art pieces and/or collaborations with dancers, musicians, and other creatives.
Pamir's photography includes working with Triangle artists in dance, music, theater, and visual arts.
His art photography is ongoing with two new series (see below): "Painting with Light" and "The Beauty of the Freeze."
He's also a pro teacher and practitioner of meditation and healing arts.
As a Reiki Teacher and Meditation Guide, Pamir conducted Reiki Trainings in South Florida at Broward Health - Imperial Point Hospital - and FAU College of Nursing; practiced Reiki and Hypnotherapy at the same hospital; and presented about Reiki at an ITP Medical Conference, as well as giving Reiki sessions to participants. He founded Oasis Reiki Dojo.
Samples of Pamir's music photography, two new art photo series, and his own hybrid movement/sound/poetry performances with collaborators.
Pamir works commercially only with fellow creatives. Otherwise, his photography is a practice which is currently exploring rivers.
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Videos:
This is a growing selection of works - updates ongoing
Painting with Light and The Beauty of the Freeze. Click to enlarge.
Durham, NC — Bipeds Present Shadowbox Session #20 An evening of musicians and movers.
Me on the left together with the amazing Victoria Nelson on natural percussion sounds.
"ETU" A POETRY-BASED DANCE LITANY
Iteration I
An original performance work by Pamir Kiciman
Performed and co-created with Jody Cassell
🎭Artists\\
Pamir Kiciman\ original poem, recitation, sounds, vocalizations and movement
Jody Cassell\ dance and shape maker, gestures, embodiment, vocalizations
Themes\\ loss \ beauty \ love \ memory
DESCRIPTION\\ This piece is an offering. It offers solace in the throes of suffering. Sourced in the beauty of the natural environment, the material grounds nature's overlooked ability to be a presence. The land serves as refuge for supplication and renewal while morphing through loss, beauty, love and memory. Housed in a poem, dancer and poet expressively shape and shift spacetime with movement, words and vocalizations, punctuated by traditional and nontraditional sounds in an emotive landscape that's present and beyond.
Written, produced, directed and performed by © Pamir Kiciman 2024 / Luna Moth Creations.
A few samples below. Visit my page on The Local Reporter for the full list.
My exclusive Chapel Hill and Durham author interviews and debut novel reviews:
After pursuing other work for decades, Pamir returned to the stage in RedBird Theater's comedy Numbers Are Down in Durham, summer 2023. You can read the playbill here.
He also read three parts in the stage reading of La Famiglia by Annie Taft.
In 2025, Pamir took part in a dramatization of the NC Third Provincial Congress, portraying Joseph Winston, in a series of eight performances in one day in Hillsborough.
Samples of Pamir's photography of fellow creatives
Behind-the-scenes photos for dance film set with green screen, for Jennifer Scully-Thurston's "Playing House" at Shadowbox Studios, Durham, NC.
CABARET by Stone Soup Theatre Company, Oct., 2023. All photos at this link are ones I was hired to capture and many more.
Video: Photographs emulating the qualities of wabi-sabi. All images © Pamir Kiciman
PLUS
Hired to photograph a knitted naked dress made as an art piece.
An improvisational monthly program in Durham, NC.
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Social media management, including content creation and guidance to enhance brand visibility and engagement. Search engine optimization (SEO), driving traffic and improving online presence. Email marketing and automation, newsletter design and content writing for effective communication. Photography and photo editing, producing high-quality visuals/graphics for social media and marketing materials. Design and manage Facebook Business Pages, optimizing content to foster community interaction and growth. Google Business Profile. Video and audio recording and editing, creating engaging multimedia content that resonates with target audiences.
Highlighting uniquely talented artists of all stripes in the community and presenting original stories about people, art spaces and arts and culture events.
Wrote and published the Reiki Help Blog for 17 years, covering all things holistic, mindful, somatic, consciousness, mindbody, healing and spiritual.
In March 2024, I took down my Reiki web domain and blog. The writings on the blog from 2007 on can be found on the Internet Archive, visit this link.
Beginning in 1995, I founded and led Oasis Reiki Dojo, offering priavte sessions, classes, and community-based learning rooted in presence, compassion, and deep listening.
This work extended into clinical and institutional settings, including hospital-based programs, as well as private practice and public teaching. Across these contexts, I worked with hundreds of individuals, supporting processes of healing, regulation, and reconnection.
Though I am not currently practicing in a formal capacity with the public, this work continues to inform my life, art, and collaborative approach. It remains a central thread in how I engage with the world: through attention, care, and a commitment to creating spaces where people can encounter themselves more fully.
Postgraduate work in Theater
Updated Reiki Master Training in Usui Reiki Ryoho
Authentic Japanese Reiki
Hypnotherapy Certification
Sufi Aromatherapy Training