AO Roberts (they/them) is a crip media conjuror, sculptural scenographer, and sonic interventionist who builds spaces resonating with the unruly poetics of Disabled life. Based in Treaty 1 Territory (Winnipeg), with settler ancestry (Scottish, English, Norwegian, French), their work unfolds across sculptural installation, experimental sound, and digital ecosystems.

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Their installations are spells cast in collaboration—detuning labor and vibrating with embodied knowledge. As writer Hannah Doucet observes, Roberts forges “unexpected and poetic connections between property, protection, body, care, and control.” In Liturgies for Chiron (2022), a performance created with Anju Singh, they crafted a resonant archive of generational labour trauma. The piece wove fragile architectures of communion through electronics, strings, sculptural activation, and choreographed movement. At Plug In ICA’s 2019 STAGES Biennial Roberts' Crisis Canon,  flooded a concrete test pile site with cyclic vocal and electroacoustic lament, performed by Sarah Jo Kirsch, Doreen Girard, Zohreh Gervais, and Bret Parenteau.

Their 2024 release Plants Properties Equipment (PPE)—an interactive world developed with Séance Collective—invites players into a sentient landscape, where they encounter a series of sonic offerings. Featuring an original soundtrack with contributions from Johanna Hedva, Molly Joyce, Andy Slater, Chisato Minamimura, and Medical Museum, the project dwells in the generative edges of crip time.

Roberts’ work has been recognized through a 2022 MacDowell Fellowship, inclusion on the 2021 Sobey Art Award Longlist, and residencies at Dreamsong Gallery and Pioneer Works Center for Art and Innovation. Under the alias VOR, they compose and perform experimental electronics, including their 2022 full-length release Ruminant (Makade Star). In Fall 2025, they begin a PhD in Communications and Culture at York/Toronto Metropolitan University, where they will deepen their study of disability, sound, and crip futurism.