Cuntroaches / Urin
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22:30
FILM SCREENING + ARTIST TALK:
PREMIUM CONNECT
[REAL DEAL]
by TABITA REZAIRE
DE⎜2017⎜13 MIN⎜OMU
Artist Talk with dgtl fmnsm curator-in-residence shawné holloway, Nkisi, and more.
23:59 AFTER SHOW:
NKISI [𝔫𝔬𝔫 𝔴𝔬𝔯𝔩𝔡𝔴𝔦𝔡𝔢]
ETERNA [𝔫𝔬𝔳𝔞 𝔢𝔯𝔞] LIVE A/V
AUCO [𝔫𝔬 𝔰𝔥𝔞𝔡𝔢]
SINOSC [𝔡𝔬𝔠𝔲𝔪𝔫𝔱]
One year after Cry Baby brought its collaboration with the queer-feminist festival dgtl fmnsm to Leipzig, it’s time to enter into the 2nd round. Cry Baby finds a unique ally in dgtl fmnsm, which focuses on possibilities and challenges of feminism in this digital age.
The work PREMIUM CONNECT [REAL DEAL], by French-born Guyanese-Danish media artist Tabita Rezaire, takes us within a VR rendering of Google sea, where some internet users believe to have found the location of Atlantis. PREMIUM CONNECT envisions a study of Information and Communication Technologies, exploring African divination systems, the fungi underworld, ancestral communication and quantum physics to (re)think our information conduits. A panel discussion will follow a presentation of this work, presented by dgtl fmnsm in collaboration with shawné holloway.
The after show will feature the Congolese-Belgian visionary Nkisi. As co-founder of NON Worldwide, whose raison d’être is described as «a collective of African artists and of the diaspora, using sound as their primary media to articulate the visible and invisible structures that create binaries in society and, in turn, distribute power.» Nkisi’s sets draw from a wide range of influences from industrial techno to the South African Gqom, providing a sound that is equally relentless and evocative.
Eterna is an up-and-coming artist from Barcelona whose music captures the frantic search for serenity and stimulation in today’s over-saturated digital landscape. He will perform the A/V project «Where Are U Children,» a collaborative work with Uc Ajin, plus new unreleased material. Support comes from two of the most exciting new DJs on the scene; AUCO, the fierce Berlin No Shade resident from London and sinosc, Dresden’s best kept secret young talent.
Nkisi
soundcloud.com/nkisi/
Eterna
soundcloud.com/eternax/
AUCO
soundcloud.com/auco23
sinosc
soundcloud.com/sin-osc/
PREMIUM CONNECT
(REAL DEAL)
VR extract
tabita rezaire
residency profile
Nkisi and sinosc are supported by the 2018 SHAPE platform, which is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
The event is financially supported by the StuRa of the University of Leipzig, Department for Gender Equality & Lifestyle Policy, for which we would like to thank you very much!
ℭ𝔯𝔶 𝔅𝔞𝔟𝔶 010
@crybbeangel @dgtlfmnsm @cynetart @shapeplatform
Visual Identity by Anja Kaiser
www.ifz.me
Antje Meichsner / Shannon Soundquist is a radio maker and sound artist, studied history of arts, psychology and communication science and engaged since years in feminist and antiracial structures in Dresden. She promotes as a part of the DJ collective ProZecco women*, that love to play out their interests in music and deejay. Her own sounds are based on the de- and reconstruction of electronical technoid sound material which Meichsner infers with linguistic admissions, which circle around the condition of the subject in the modern society.
In framework to the dgtl fmnsm festival, she is going to share her knowledge and her musicial and artistic expertise in the workshop a breath in the microphone – intimacy in the ear. Meichsner will be also take part in the opening event as Shannon Soundquist and present her audioperformance Zu viele Worte und trotzdem zu wenig gesagt.
Workshop: A breath in the microphone – intimacy in the ear
Here are just the two of you, you and the microphone. Sounds, tones, words falls from your mouth. You meet from another side, suddenly you’re here differently. How does this feel? And then you go closer and closer to the microphone. What happens now, in this feedback loop of your body, so near to yourself? The 3 hours workshop offers participants the possibility to artistically experiment with sounds to put apart to tones and texts and to join itself skillfully. Everybody for themselves or together going to learn effective strategies and technologies to generate, alienate and rythmically your own voice. Aim is the production of experimental and quite individual audiotracks.
Please bring:
Your own laptop
Installation of Audacity (or another DAW, e.g. Ableton Live)
(closed) earphones
If you have: short texts
Konstanze Schütze is a curator and reseracher in art education, living and working in Berlin. Her academic work focuses on ’Updates for an art education after the Internet’. She is co-founder and director at the gallery project ’storecontemporary.com’. Amongst other institutional and non-institutional projects, she was co-curator of the exhibition ’Pizza is God’ at NRW-Forum Düsseldorf and editor of ’Pizza is God - the Reader’. For ’agencyart.education’ and ’methode mandy’ she is actively engaged in art education as a critical practice.
Ulla Heinrich works in HELLERAU European Center for the Arts Dresden as Head of Digital Communication and Special Projects. She is a cultural educator, cultural manager, feminist activist and promoter in Dresden, responsable for the PorYes – Feminist Porn Awards Europe, every other year in Berlin, and co-founder of the queer feminist network and collective böse&gemein.
GLEAM, in its third programme, presents CALL, CONNECT. Through a series of commissioned performances, we call Don Washington (Chicago, IL), Richard Kennedy (New York, NY), Ei Jane Janet Lin (Chicago, IL), Paula Nacif (London, UK), Daglara and Viscosity (Athens, GR) to join us #LIVE. From their own moments, from their own locations, they come to share with us what is available in the present : a song, a conversation, a point of view, and a word. The evening invites us all to inhabit a shared space through consenting to witness and to be witnessed in 4 consecutive, 10 minute blocks of time. While each performance is showing locally at the festival, the festival is streaming it back onto the net.
The uninterrupted content broadcast connects us all to the the world wide web and the emotions that get caught there in its constantly flowing stream of data. CALL, CONNECT is at once a document, a film, a play, a movie, a chat room, and an invitation. What it isn’t is static or definable. How do we connect with others who are far away? How do we feel their presence and intention through a space that always already distorts the transmission? Does a call evoke yearning? What about warmth?
GLEAM #03: CALL, CONNECT
Curators and moderation : shawné michaelain holloway and Georges Jacotey
In collaboration with Josefine Soppa
DAGLARA&VISCOSITY
Viscosity (aka Katerina Louloudi) is a drag artist and performer based in Athens, Greece. She is currently studying in the Fine Arts School of Athens. Daglara (aka Nikolaos Tsironis) is a fashion designer and drag artist based in Athens, Greece. He has studied fashion in the Royal Academy of Antwerp and he is running his own clothing label since 2015. Together, they are the House of Skorpina, collaborating on art projects, hosting and performing in queer parties in the underground athenian nightlife.
https://www.instagram.com/daglara_experience/
https://www.instagram.com/viscosity__/
RICHARD KENNEDY
Richard Kennedy is a composer, choreographer, and librettist living and working in Hudson , New York while attending Milton Avery Institute (Bard MFA). Richard has presented work recently at Moma Ps1, Artists Space, Danspace, Performa17, Moma, The Studio Museum and Segue Foundation.
DON WASHINGTON JR
Don Washington is an web based artist using video, photography, sound, and writing to navigate personal narratives based in public spaces aka da web. Currently finishing up their BFA at the School of the Art Institute of School. Their work is investigation into the onlines effect on the offline. They have exhibited at Dfbrl8r (Chicago), and Archer Beach House (Chicago). More of their work can be seen at https://vimeo.com/user44791294 and @raw_nda_ on Instagram
xXxtra.Princess
xXxtra.Princess are princesses.
xXxtra.Princess have extracted all knowledge from #WHYPpl and defeated the imperialist, capitalist, ablelist, cis-heteronormative, white supremacist patriarchy.
xXxtra.Princess are weapons/products against/for mass destruction.
xXxtra.Princess are princesses because everyone died.
You can be an xXxtra.Princess too. All you have to do is #Feel.
xXxtra.Princess is currently incorporated by Paula Pinho Martins Nacif and Ei Jane Janet Lin.
http://xxxtraprincess.world/
In her works, the dgtl fmnsm curator-in-residence shawné michaelain holloway examines the correlation between identities and social networks. To achieve this, her interdisciplinary work with sounds, visual material and performances makes use of the freedom of the Internet from various perspectives, while at the same time subjecting it to critical examination. Through her pieces on the subjects of gender, control, identity and sexuality, she studies aspects of her own self-depiction and the way others perceive it. Attracted by all kinds of online scenes, she makes the most of the fact that she can digitally change personas and independently defines herself as who she wants to be, even in the face of her own moral conflicts – alternating between fiction, her real, socially shaped body and learned dogmas. Back at the first dgtl fmnsm festival, shawné michaelain holloway developed the concept for the live online show GLEAM, which will be on the programme again this year.
During a one-week residency, shawné michaelain holloway will be developing a presentation on “the evolution of live performances online” for the festival opening night.
In addition to her arrangement as artist-in-residence for the Center for Afrofuturist Studies in Iowa, she has also already presented her works in New York, Paris, Helsinki and London.
Young Boy Dancing Group is a collective of contemporary dancers whose performances are a mixture of a queer show and techno-futurism. The YBDG use their performances to challenge normative notions of gender and sexuality. Their fragmentary choreographies are shown at art fairs, galleries and London nightclubs. By imitating movements from daily life, they create spaces for defamiliarisation, the aim being to create a new form of intimacy together – spaces for friendship, desire, queer alliances – and to constantly call institutionalised art settings into question.
With: Ivan Monteiro, Tarren Johnson, Maria Metsalu, Nicolas Roses, Manuel Scheiwiller, Vincent Riebeek, Nils Amadeus Lange
As BBB_, Alla Poppersoni and Alexander Sahm have been working since 2015 at point where music, performance, art, design and philosophy all come together. Fully Accessible Body is a new production especially for dgtl fmnsm, a large-format participative event during which intimate experiences are shared with the audience by means of technology. With the help of augmented reality, the interactive performance explores how control is taken of digital bodies in an interplay between real performers and interactive cyber-avatars. HoloLens smartglasses reveal bodies which are controlled by the audience’s bio-feedback.
Die kongolesisch-belgische Produzentin und DJ Melika Ngombe Kolongo, alias Nkisi, ist Mitbegründerin von NON Worldwide, einem Kollektiv afrikanischer Künstler*innen, die sich als Netzwerk und Musiker*innen gegen sichtbare und unsichtbare Machtstrukturen sowie strukturelle Ungleichheiten in der elektronischen Musik engagiert. In ihren Sets verarbeitet die Künstlerin Einflüsse aus der zentral- und westafrikanischen Clubszene, mit einem Feingefühl für die richtige Mischung aus Punkattitüde und modernen Elektro- und Technoeinflüssen. Ihre unnachgiebigen Sounds verneinen jeden Systemzwang und bejaen gleichzeitig die tanzende Masse.
In einer einwöchigen Residenz wird Nkisi ein neues Live-Set erarbeiten, welches exklusiv im Rahmen der Festivaleröffnung präsentiert wird.
Festival warm-up at Institut für Zukunft, Leipzig: Cry Baby x dgtl fmnsm w/ Nkisi, Eterna (live), screening + talk
NKISI wird von der Plattform SHAPE 2018 unterstützt, die vom Programm Creative Europe der Europäischen Union kofinanziert wird.
die Blaue Distanz
#enjoy – deserve
DGTL FMSNM space-design
concept, video, sound by die Blaue Distanz (Anna Erdmann & Franziska Goralski)
The central forum for the negotiation of digital forms of intimacy becomes physically tangible in this utopian feminist space designed by the Dresden artist duo the blue distance. The interior design provides the basic setting for a three-day-long session of transmitting and receiving information, with everyone involved being able to freely select where they stay and carry out activities.
Waterꕀ Source means refreshment, the first step in cleansing and improving your moisture balance all in one, free of charge. Join your local bottlegäng and get your deposit back. Deposits returned at entrance/exit!
Snack﹆ Source gives us coated mouthfuls. These tidbits ensheathed in flour – concentrated and sweet – contain a creamy centre of sesame, adzukis or peanuts. For between, before and after meals.
Massageꘐ Source means contact with yourself and others. There are two compartments: one that you can use on your own and another where A, J and T share their connection to touch with us. Will I or won’t I allow a stranger intimate contact with me? Do I see intimacy as connected to sexuality or not? Become aware of what is happening in your tissues, giving some thought to your feet, your stomach, the movement of your eyes. We discuss beforehand what the massage will include and what not. For the latest updates and time slots, see the profiles at Massage-Source itself. We look forward to seeing you!
The forecourts of the temples invite visitors to explore: to read manifestos on the flokati rug, to get closer to a whisper by means of a joystick or to come up with utopian ideas in the “cool-up area”. May your wells run deep༉.
www.lilacpop.de
www.annaerdmann.de
www.franziskagoralski.de
Line Finderup Jensen
Line Finderup Jensen, a danish artist, shows in her interactive video simulation „Warn others of slippery conditions, so that everyone can walk with caution“ an experience she had herself once at the Oberlaa therme in Vienna. Visitors are invited to take part in the game and navigate around a memory while creating their own. Line Finderup Jensen’s work deals with hegemonic structures and how we experience them, whilst exploring how gaming can be used as a tool in narrating documentaries.
Melo Börner
Lorna Mills
The young festival has managed to secure a luminary of digital art production, the Canadian artist Lorna Mills. To create her dizzying animations and GIFs, installations and videos, Mills builds a collage of images found online that are awkward, offensive and consistently absurd. Her works reflect our current digital culture, its look, speed and narratives in a cultural kaleidoscope of statements from the media ranging from 4chain to pornhub. Like few other female artists of her time, she has the ability to turn the intimacy of online visual worlds into an immersive situation in the physical world of the exhibition.
KULTUR VOTZEN TV
In the mega-artistic summer of 2017, a group of curators, artists and a lawyer set off for the Documenta in Athens. Overwhelmed by the diversity of the city and learned from Athens, we founded KVTV. A culture blog that determines what is talked about. We show what we find interesting from the big and small exhibitions, museums, vernissages and biennials. We’ll come to your vernissage and maybe you’ll be lucky and we’ll make a nice video about you! So be curious when it’s yo yo yo yo KVTV again....
Instagram kv_television
Ena Lind has been pushing boundaries in the electronic music scene in Berlin for over a decade. She is a political minded DJ, producer and co-founder of the network MINT. Since many years she promots women in the electronic music scene and shares her knowledge in workshops. MINT has now grown from a party to a booking agency with feminist approach.
For dgtl fmnsm Ena Lind connects day and night: in the afternoon she teachs a DJ workshop a spart of the festivals’ #skillsharing programme and at night she will become part of the amazing aftershowparty line up at objekt klein a.
Workshop:
During the 3 hours workshop the participants learn about the technology of hanging up with vinyls, explained by first steps. You do not need previous knowledge!
After an extra introduction into the equipment the participants can prove their awareness.
The membership is defined by 10, please apply per mail at dgtlfmnsm@hellerau.org.--> The workshop is fully booked.
When the ping of a short message, releases just as many hormones as a touch of a person. What happens to our routines? Online offers of social media, dating apps and pocket-porn applications draw the interpersonal space of physical approximation into the abstraction of images and text-to-text communication and becomes virtuality real. How do artists and curators deal with this? Tina Sauerländer, Anika Meier and Blaue Distanz present their projects and talk about sensation, closeness, distance and illusion after the so called Virtual Reality has become a reality. Tina Sauerländer, Anika Meier and Blaue Distanz present their projects and talk about touch, closeness, distance and illusion after which Virtual Reality becomes a new reality.
Tina Sauerländer is a curator and writer based in Berlin. She focuses on the impact of the digital and the internet on individual environments and society. With her exhibition hub peer to space she has been organizing international group shows, e.g The Unframed World. Virtual Reality as Artistic Medium for the 21st Century at HeK Basel in 2017. She is co-founder of Radiance, an online platform for artistic VR experiences. She is a PhD candidate at The University of Art and Design Linz, Austria, and a board member of the media arts society in Berlin.
www.peertospace.eu
www.radiancevr.co
www.medienkunstverein.com
Anika Meier lives in Berlin and Hamburg and works as an author and curator who writes for magazines such as Monopol about art and social media. Lately she curated the exhibition „Virtual Normality, Netzwerkkünstlerinnen 2.0“ in Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig and „On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a performance artist Andy Kassier & Signe Pierce“ in the context of the Duesseldorf Photo Week. Since 2011 she posts her photos on Instagram as @anika and uses Twitter as @arte_fakt. She is the founder of the collective "This Ain’t Art School" (@thisaintartschool), which uses Instagram to approach photographic issues and lately worked with Joel Meyerowitz in cooperation with C/O Berlin and Alec Soth in cooperation with the Deichtorhallen Hamburg.
„Do you think we can ever meet up?“ - „No. Never... We are no humans. We are messages – only.”
Promising romantic and sexual encounters the popular dating-app tinder connects two interested users by chat. The following „dramaturgy of dating“ implies a meeting of the couple in „real life“ - realising the intentional promise. Tinder Tendencies explores the potentialities of intimate spaces and the mediation of platonic relationships apart from the inherent logic of the dating-app. During a live-online-show various speakers get caught up in conversion and interaction based on fictional and actual tinder chat dialogues.
The scenic reading by Tabea Venrath takes place within the installation Platonic Paradise created by Miriam J. Carranza (in collaboration with Lotte Meret Effinger). Platonic Paradise questions the dimensions of the digital self and the potentials of friendship, emotion and affection mediated through technology. The performance takes place in the GOLD+BETON (Cologne) and presented via live-stream as part of dgtl fmnsm in Dresden.
Paula Kommoss is a curator and art historian living and working in Frankfurt. Her academic work centres around notions of intimacy and touch within contemporary art. She studied art history in Freiburg, Bochum and London and recently worked as a curatorial assistant for the German Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennial, which won theGolden Lion for Anne Imhof’s Faust. As a curatorial assistant to Susanne Pfeffer at the Fridericianum, Kassel, she worked on several exhibitions such as Images, Anicka Yi, Tetsumi Kudo and Loretta Fahrenholz. Looking at the notion of touch in her intimacy talk, she will investigate if the omnipresence of digital tools genuinely leads to alienationand depression, are we heading towards becoming self-absorbed entities with no feelings or desire for others?
As artists in residence at dgtl fmnsm, Stephanie Comilang and Simon Speiser are working on a collaborative film/ installation involving Paradise, a fictional character played by a drone. In previous works by Comilang, Paradise surfaces as a disembodied voice who speaks of connectedness through adaptation, bodies as archives, and entangled narratives of possible futurities. In this new work, Speiser’s daughter Lotte, who was born in Ecuador, where Speiser’s family is from, lends her voice and knowledge to the fictional character of Paradise. For people like Lotte, born in one place and moved to another, home is an amorphous thing. The familiarity of two places creates a feeling of constant-déja-vu, similar to the card game of Memory, in which the player attempts to pair one card with another. What could this space of deja-vu look like?
GEORGES JACOTEY is a media and performance artist based in Athens. Their work examines notions of gender-queer representation and "ironic" misandry, and has been recently shown at Manifesta 11 (Zürich), CODE art fair (Copenhagen), Nu Performance Festival (Tallinn) and dgtlfmnsm (Dresden), among other places. They have attended the Film Studies department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, from which they dropped out for reasons pertaining to the greek economic crisis of 2008. Since 2015, Jacotey and their partner, fashion designer Nikolaos Tsironis, co-run the femme clothing brand DAGLARA.
Georgiana and the Dragon
It was during the great persecution that Georgiana left her little village in pursuit of Greatness. God had placed the divine call within her heart but gave her no directions other than to travel as far from home as possible. She toured continental Europe for years, until the day she reached imperial Dresda, where it was meant to meet her destiny. As the popular legend goes, she slew the dragon who had been casting a shadow of death over the city. But sadly her convictions were unpopular to the people of Dresda who eventually decided to do away with her.
Georgiana and the Dragon is a pastiche of a performance that likens art careerism to competitive sainthood and identity politics to actual martyrdom. In this dramatic reenactment, Georges Jacotey parodies his own delusions of grandeur as an unrepresented contemporary artist.
As BBB_, Alla Poppersoni and Alexander Sahm have been working since 2015 at point where music, performance, art, design and philosophy all come together. Fully Accessible Body is a new production especially for dgtl fmnsm, a large-format participative event during which intimate experiences are shared with the audience by means of technology. With the help of augmented reality, the interactive performance explores how control is taken of digital bodies in an interplay between real performers and interactive cyber-avatars. HoloLens smartglasses reveal bodies which are controlled by the audience’s bio-feedback.
„Do it
Told me voices in my mind
When I gone wild“
For you Katrina is an audiovisual music project by a Berlin-based artist and producer, performing under the name Meta.
Their music is a combination of dark ambient and experimental electronic with bits of techno and electro-pop, and a emotional and strong vocal performance. The visual presentation of the project is as important as the music itself. The artist performs in selfmade costumes with extravagant post-gender styles. For you Katrina’s music and stage persona combines strong spiritual and emotional experiences with the invitation to dance and celebrate love and freedom.
The EP HIGH NOTES was published in 2017 as the third album of For you Katrina.
Intimate with the needle
The queer/feminist tattoo artist and illustrator Krause has already put together an impressive tour plan for this year, with guest appearances from Budapest to Lyon.
In her dotwork style, simplicity meets black humour and the aesthetic cornerstones of Generation Giphy. Her tattoos are rather like you might imagine her customers: at once sharp-witted and playfully reticent. Krause’s motifs are inspired both by the simplicity of everyday objects and by the female* body. Her tattoos are all about female* intimacy – a naked body, a hug, a woman with her arms wound tightly around her knees. This is rarely how we show ourselves to strangers. Krause inks this permanently into others’ skin.
Krause will be at the launch of dgtl fmnsm on Sunday to study INTIMACY from her own individual perspective. As a tattoo artist, she regularly touches people on private parts of their body, causes them pain and happiness and is extremely intimate with them for short periods of time.
Starting to feel the urge? Krause has developed an exclusive flash for you and us that is already waiting to be won. Take part now and with a bit of luck you can have a genuine KRAUSE inked under your skin on Sunday at the festival.
Enter by emailing
dgtlfmnsm@hellerau.org
An intimate moment and an intimate message that will really get under your skin – Krause and you.
Ewelina Aleksandrowicz and Andrzej Wojtas are Polish digital media artists and video directors working under the moniker Pussykrew. They have lived and worked in numerous countries, developing their projects across multiple areas of art and technology.
Magic Island is the digital version of the Canadian Emma Czerny. For some years now, she has been brewing hot stuff from Lo-Fi, RnB and Dream Pop. If these terms do not mean anything to you, rest assured, you will experience breathtaking sound like under water: bell-clear voices of enchanting meekness draw us into the suction of a new state of matter.
magicisland.bandcamp.com
The young festival has managed to secure a luminary of digital art production, the Canadian artist Lorna Mills. To create her dizzying animations and GIFs, installations and videos, Mills builds a collage of images found online that are awkward, offensive and consistently absurd. Her works reflect our current digital culture, its look, speed and narratives in a cultural kaleidoscope of statements from the media ranging from 4chain to pornhub. Like few other female artists of her time, she has the ability to turn the intimacy of online visual worlds into an immersive situation in the physical world of the exhibition.
In her works, the dgtl fmnsm curator-in-residence shawné michaelain holloway examines the correlation between identities and social networks. To achieve this, her interdisciplinary work with sounds, visual material and performances makes use of the freedom of the Internet from various perspectives, while at the same time subjecting it to critical examination. Through her pieces on the subjects of gender, control, identity and sexuality, she studies aspects of her own self-depiction and the way others perceive it. Attracted by all kinds of online scenes, she makes the most of the fact that she can digitally change personas and independently defines herself as who she wants to be, even in the face of her own moral conflicts – alternating between fiction, her real, socially shaped body and learned dogmas. Back at the first dgtl fmnsm festival, shawné michaelain holloway developed the concept for the live online show GLEAM, which will be on the programme again this year.
During a one-week residency, shawné michaelain holloway will be developing a presentation on “the evolution of live performances online” for the festival opening night.
In addition to her arrangement as artist-in-residence for the Center for Afrofuturist Studies in Iowa, she has also already presented her works in New York, Paris, Helsinki and London.
Die kongolesisch-belgische Produzentin und DJ Melika Ngombe Kolongo, alias Nkisi, ist Mitbegründerin von NON Worldwide, einem Kollektiv afrikanischer Künstler*innen, die sich als Netzwerk und Musiker*innen gegen sichtbare und unsichtbare Machtstrukturen sowie strukturelle Ungleichheiten in der elektronischen Musik engagiert. In ihren Sets verarbeitet die Künstlerin Einflüsse aus der zentral- und westafrikanischen Clubszene, mit einem Feingefühl für die richtige Mischung aus Punkattitüde und modernen Elektro- und Technoeinflüssen. Ihre unnachgiebigen Sounds verneinen jeden Systemzwang und bejaen gleichzeitig die tanzende Masse.
In einer einwöchigen Residenz wird Nkisi ein neues Live-Set erarbeiten, welches exklusiv im Rahmen der Festivaleröffnung präsentiert wird.
Festival warm-up at Institut für Zukunft, Leipzig: Cry Baby x dgtl fmnsm w/ Nkisi, Eterna (live), screening + talk
NKISI wird von der Plattform SHAPE 2018 unterstützt, die vom Programm Creative Europe der Europäischen Union kofinanziert wird.
As BBB_, Alla Poppersoni and Alexander Sahm have been working since 2015 at point where music, performance, art, design and philosophy all come together. Fully Accessible Body is a new production especially for dgtl fmnsm, a large-format participative event during which intimate experiences are shared with the audience by means of technology. With the help of augmented reality, the interactive performance explores how control is taken of digital bodies in an interplay between real performers and interactive cyber-avatars. HoloLens smartglasses reveal bodies which are controlled by the audience’s bio-feedback.
CREDITS
By BBB_
Alla Poppersoni & Alexander Sahm
In collaboration with Janna Gaede und Fabian Schöfer
Performance:
Anja Arncken, Dominik Keggenhoff, Mar Rodriguez Valverde
Visuals & grafics:
Japparri, Obby1000, Pia Graf
Young Boy Dancing Group is a collective of contemporary dancers whose performances are a mixture of a queer show and techno-futurism. The YBDG use their performances to challenge normative notions of gender and sexuality. Their fragmentary choreographies are shown at art fairs, galleries and London nightclubs. By imitating movements from daily life, they create spaces for defamiliarisation, the aim being to create a new form of intimacy together – spaces for friendship, desire, queer alliances – and to constantly call institutionalised art settings into question.
With: Ivan Monteiro, Tarren Johnson, Maria Metsalu, Nicolas Roses, Manuel Scheiwiller, Vincent Riebeek, Nils Amadeus Lange
GEORGES JACOTEY is a media and performance artist based in Athens. Their work examines notions of gender-queer representation and "ironic" misandry, and has been recently shown at Manifesta 11 (Zürich), CODE art fair (Copenhagen), Nu Performance Festival (Tallinn) and dgtlfmnsm (Dresden), among other places. They have attended the Film Studies department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, from which they dropped out for reasons pertaining to the greek economic crisis of 2008. Since 2015, Jacotey and their partner, fashion designer Nikolaos Tsironis, co-run the femme clothing brand DAGLARA.
Georgiana and the Dragon
It was during the great persecution that Georgiana left her little village in pursuit of Greatness. God had placed the divine call within her heart but gave her no directions other than to travel as far from home as possible. She toured continental Europe for years, until the day she reached imperial Dresda, where it was meant to meet her destiny. As the popular legend goes, she slew the dragon who had been casting a shadow of death over the city. But sadly her convictions were unpopular to the people of Dresda who eventually decided to do away with her.
Georgiana and the Dragon is a pastiche of a performance that likens art careerism to competitive sainthood and identity politics to actual martyrdom. In this dramatic reenactment, Georges Jacotey parodies his own delusions of grandeur as an unrepresented contemporary artist.
the blue distance
#enjoy – deserve
DGTL FMSNM space-design
concept, video, sound by die Blaue Distanz (Anna Erdmann & Franziska Goralski)
The central forum for the negotiation of digital forms of intimacy becomes physically tangible in this utopian feminist space designed by the Dresden artist duo the blue distance. The interior design provides the basic setting for a three-day-long session of transmitting and receiving information, with everyone involved being able to freely select where they stay and carry out activities.
Waterꕀ Source means refreshment, the first step in cleansing and improving your moisture balance all in one, free of charge. Join your local bottlegäng and get your deposit back. Deposits returned at entrance/exit!
Snack﹆ Source gives us coated mouthfuls. These tidbits ensheathed in flour – concentrated and sweet – contain a creamy centre of sesame, adzukis or peanuts. For between, before and after meals.
Massageꘐ Source means contact with yourself and others. There are two compartments: one that you can use on your own and another where A, J and T share their connection to touch with us. Will I or won’t I allow a stranger intimate contact with me? Do I see intimacy as connected to sexuality or not? Become aware of what is happening in your tissues, giving some thought to your feet, your stomach, the movement of your eyes. We discuss beforehand what the massage will include and what not. For the latest updates and time slots, see the profiles at Massage-Source itself. We look forward to seeing you!
The forecourts of the temples invite visitors to explore: to read manifestos on the flokati rug, to get closer to a whisper by means of a joystick or to come up with utopian ideas in the “cool-up area”. May your wells run deep༉.
Antje Meichsner / Shannon Soundquist is a radio maker and sound artist, studied history of arts, psychology and communication science and engaged since years in feminist and antiracial structures in Dresden. She promotes as a part of the DJ collective ProZecco women*, that love to play out their interests in music and deejay. Her own sounds are based on the de- and reconstruction of electronical technoid sound material which Meichsner infers with linguistic admissions, which circle around the condition of the subject in the modern society.
Soundcloud
Magic Island is the digital version of the Canadian Emma Czerny. For some years now, she has been brewing hot stuff from Lo-Fi, RnB and Dream Pop. If these terms do not mean anything to you, rest assured, you will experience breathtaking sound like under water: bell-clear voices of enchanting meekness draw us into the suction of a new state of matter.
magicisland.bandcamp.comIn the mega-artistic summer of 2017, a group of curators, artists and a lawyer set off for the Documenta in Athens. Overwhelmed by the diversity of the city and learned from Athens, we founded KVTV. A culture blog that determines what is talked about. We show what we find interesting from the big and small exhibitions, museums, vernissages and biennials. We’ll come to your vernissage and maybe you’ll be lucky and we’ll make a nice video about you! So be curious when it’s yo yo yo yo KVTV again....
Intimate with the needle
The queer/feminist tattoo artist and illustrator Krause has already put together an impressive tour plan for this year, with guest appearances from Budapest to Lyon.
In her dotwork style, simplicity meets black humour and the aesthetic cornerstones of Generation Giphy. Her tattoos are rather like you might imagine her customers: at once sharp-witted and playfully reticent. Krause’s motifs are inspired both by the simplicity of everyday objects and by the female* body. Her tattoos are all about female* intimacy – a naked body, a hug, a woman with her arms wound tightly around her knees. This is rarely how we show ourselves to strangers. Krause inks this permanently into others’ skin.
Krause will be at the launch of dgtl fmnsm on Sunday to study INTIMACY from her own individual perspective. As a tattoo artist, she regularly touches people on private parts of their body, causes them pain and happiness and is extremely intimate with them for short periods of time.
Starting to feel the urge? Krause has developed an exclusive flash for you and us that is already waiting to be won. Take part now and with a bit of luck you can have a genuine KRAUSE inked under your skin on Sunday at the festival.
Enter by emailing dgtlfmnsm@hellerau.org
An intimate moment and an intimate message that will really get under your skin – Krause and you.
Line Finderup Jensen, a danish artist, shows in her interactive video simulation „Warn others of slippery conditions, so that everyone can walk with caution“ an experience she had herself once at the Oberlaa therme in Vienna. Visitors are invited to take part in the game and navigate around a memory while creating their own. Line Finderup Jensen’s work deals with hegemonic structures and how we experience them, whilst exploring how gaming can be used as a tool in narrating documentaries.
The scenic reading by Tabea Venrath takes place within the installation Platonic Paradise created by Miriam J. Carranza (in collaboration with Lotte Meret Effinger). Platonic Paradise questions the dimensions of the digital self and the potentials of friendship, emotion and affection mediated through technology. The performance takes place in the GOLD+BETON (Cologne) and presented via live-stream as part of dgtl fmnsm in Dresden.
Ena Lind has been pushing boundaries in the electronic music scene in Berlin for over a decade. She is a political minded DJ, producer and co-founder of the network MINT. Since many years she promots women in the electronic music scene and shares her knowledge in workshops. MINT has now grown from a party to a booking agency with feminist approach.
For dgtl fmnsm Ena Lind connects day and night: in the afternoon she teachs a DJ workshop a spart of the festivals’ #skillsharing programme and at night she will become part of the amazing aftershowparty line up at objekt klein a.
Workshop:
During the 3 hours workshop the participants learn about the technology of hanging up with vinyls, explained by first steps. You do not need previous knowledge!
After an extra introduction into the equipment the participants can prove their awareness.
The membership is defined by 10, please apply per mail at dgtlfmnsm@hellerau.org. Fully booked.
„Do it
Told me voices in my mind
When I gone wild“
For you Katrina is an audiovisual music project by a Berlin-based artist and producer, performing under the name Meta.
Their music is a combination of dark ambient and experimental electronic with bits of techno and electro-pop, and a emotional and strong vocal performance. The visual presentation of the project is as important as the music itself. The artist performs in selfmade costumes with extravagant post-gender styles. For you Katrina’s music and stage persona combines strong spiritual and emotional experiences with the invitation to dance and celebrate love and freedom.
The EP HIGH NOTES was published in 2017 as the third album of For you Katrina.
As artists in residence at dgtl fmnsm, Stephanie Comilang and Simon Speiser are working on a collaborative film/ installation involving Paradise, a fictional character played by a drone. In previous works by Comilang, Paradise surfaces as a disembodied voice who speaks of connectedness through adaptation, bodies as archives, and entangled narratives of possible futurities. In this new work, Speiser’s daughter Lotte, who was born in Ecuador, where Speiser’s family is from, lends her voice and knowledge to the fictional character of Paradise. For people like Lotte, born in one place and moved to another, home is an amorphous thing. The familiarity of two places creates a feeling of constant-déja-vu, similar to the card game of Memory, in which the player attempts to pair one card with another. What could this space of deja-vu look like?
Tabita Rezaire is an danish-guianese artist, intersectional working cultural activist, scientist for politics in technologie and a kemetic-yoga-teacher. Her artistically works are concentrated on the decolonization of knowledge and explores the politic asthetic of resistance through her screenings. Near by, her works shows the omnipresent matrix of colonization and those impact on technologie, sexuality, race, gender, media reports and spirituality, by focusing on the performativity of movements- online and offline. By confronting the western hegemony she shows alternative ways of narrating via digital activism, which questions our supremacy/patriarchal/heteronomy/ globalized philosophy of life. In the context of the warm up event Cry Baby at the 6th of march at the IfZ in Leipzig to the dgtl fmnsm festival she will introduce the artist shawné. Afterwards she’s part of an open talk with other artists of the evening.
Ewelina Aleksandrowicz and Andrzej Wojtas are Polish digital media artists and video directors working under the moniker Pussykrew. They have lived and worked in numerous countries, developing their projects across multiple areas of art and technology.
Pussykrew creates multimedia installations, video clips, av experiences and sculptures, exploring spaces in between digital-physical realms, fluid identities, and futuristic landscapes, through artistic experimentation with 3D
animation and 3D scanning.
Their fascination for virtually generated environments motivates them to play with the contrast between deconstructed digital images and sterile cinematic poetry, using the traditional language of painting. By dealing with the issues of materiality, they’re creating new synthetic-organic forms that are constantly in the process of mutation.
In the last ten years, they have been presenting their collaborative work at international film festivals, art galleries, tech fairs and activation events, including Saatchi Gallery London, Berlin Art Week, Postmasters Gallery - New York, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Carnegie Mellon University, Art Center Nabi - Seoul, European Media Art Festival, Transmediale and 3D Printshow - London, Paris and Berlin (Artist of the Year Award).
Pussykrew is currently a member of NEW INC - New Museum’s art and technology incubator in New York.
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The young festival has managed to secure a luminary of digital art production, the Canadian artist Lorna Mills. To create her dizzying animations and GIFs, installations and videos, Mills builds a collage of images found online that are awkward, offensive and consistently absurd. Her works reflect our current digital culture, its look, speed and narratives in a cultural kaleidoscope of statements from the media ranging from 4chain to pornhub. Like few other female artists of her time, she has the ability to turn the intimacy of online visual worlds into an immersive situation in the physical world of the exhibition.
In her works, the dgtl fmnsm curator-in-residence shawné michaelain holloway examines the correlation between identities and social networks. To achieve this, her interdisciplinary work with sounds, visual material and performances makes use of the freedom of the Internet from various perspectives, while at the same time subjecting it to critical examination. Through her pieces on the subjects of gender, control, identity and sexuality, she studies aspects of her own self-depiction and the way others perceive it. Attracted by all kinds of online scenes, she makes the most of the fact that she can digitally change personas and independently defines herself as who she wants to be, even in the face of her own moral conflicts – alternating between fiction, her real, socially shaped body and learned dogmas. Back at the first dgtl fmnsm festival, shawné michaelain holloway developed the concept for the live online show GLEAM, which will be on the programme again this year.
During a one-week residency, shawné michaelain holloway will be developing a presentation on “the evolution of live performances online” for the festival opening night.
In addition to her arrangement as artist-in-residence for the Center for Afrofuturist Studies in Iowa, she has also already presented her works in New York, Paris, Helsinki and London.
Die kongolesisch-belgische Produzentin und DJ Melika Ngombe Kolongo, alias Nkisi, ist Mitbegründerin von NON Worldwide, einem Kollektiv afrikanischer Künstler*innen, die sich als Netzwerk und Musiker*innen gegen sichtbare und unsichtbare Machtstrukturen sowie strukturelle Ungleichheiten in der elektronischen Musik engagiert. In ihren Sets verarbeitet die Künstlerin Einflüsse aus der zentral- und westafrikanischen Clubszene, mit einem Feingefühl für die richtige Mischung aus Punkattitüde und modernen Elektro- und Technoeinflüssen. Ihre unnachgiebigen Sounds verneinen jeden Systemzwang und bejaen gleichzeitig die tanzende Masse.
In einer einwöchigen Residenz wird Nkisi ein neues Live-Set erarbeiten, welches exklusiv im Rahmen der Festivaleröffnung präsentiert wird.
Festival warm-up at Institut für Zukunft, Leipzig: Cry Baby x dgtl fmnsm w/ Nkisi, Eterna (live), screening + talk
NKISI wird von der Plattform SHAPE 2018 unterstützt, die vom Programm Creative Europe der Europäischen Union kofinanziert wird.
As BBB_, Alla Poppersoni and Alexander Sahm have been working since 2015 at point where music, performance, art, design and philosophy all come together. Fully Accessible Body is a new production especially for dgtl fmnsm, a large-format participative event during which intimate experiences are shared with the audience by means of technology. With the help of augmented reality, the interactive performance explores how control is taken of digital bodies in an interplay between real performers and interactive cyber-avatars. HoloLens smartglasses reveal bodies which are controlled by the audience’s bio-feedback.
CREDITS
By BBB_
Alla Poppersoni & Alexander Sahm
In collaboration with Janna Gaede und Fabian Schöfer
Performance:
Anja Arncken, Dominik Keggenhoff, Mar Rodriguez Valverde
Visuals & grafics:
Japparri, Obby1000, Pia Graf
Young Boy Dancing Group is a collective of contemporary dancers whose performances are a mixture of a queer show and techno-futurism. The YBDG use their performances to challenge normative notions of gender and sexuality. Their fragmentary choreographies are shown at art fairs, galleries and London nightclubs. By imitating movements from daily life, they create spaces for defamiliarisation, the aim being to create a new form of intimacy together – spaces for friendship, desire, queer alliances – and to constantly call institutionalised art settings into question.
With: Ivan Monteiro, Tarren Johnson, Maria Metsalu, Nicolas Roses, Manuel Scheiwiller, Vincent Riebeek, Nils Amadeus Lange
GEORGES JACOTEY is a media and performance artist based in Athens. Their work examines notions of gender-queer representation and "ironic" misandry, and has been recently shown at Manifesta 11 (Zürich), CODE art fair (Copenhagen), Nu Performance Festival (Tallinn) and dgtlfmnsm (Dresden), among other places. They have attended the Film Studies department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, from which they dropped out for reasons pertaining to the greek economic crisis of 2008. Since 2015, Jacotey and their partner, fashion designer Nikolaos Tsironis, co-run the femme clothing brand DAGLARA.
Georgiana and the Dragon
It was during the great persecution that Georgiana left her little village in pursuit of Greatness. God had placed the divine call within her heart but gave her no directions other than to travel as far from home as possible. She toured continental Europe for years, until the day she reached imperial Dresda, where it was meant to meet her destiny. As the popular legend goes, she slew the dragon who had been casting a shadow of death over the city. But sadly her convictions were unpopular to the people of Dresda who eventually decided to do away with her.
Georgiana and the Dragon is a pastiche of a performance that likens art careerism to competitive sainthood and identity politics to actual martyrdom. In this dramatic reenactment, Georges Jacotey parodies his own delusions of grandeur as an unrepresented contemporary artist.
the blue distance
#enjoy – deserve
DGTL FMSNM space-design
concept, video, sound by die Blaue Distanz (Anna Erdmann & Franziska Goralski)
The central forum for the negotiation of digital forms of intimacy becomes physically tangible in this utopian feminist space designed by the Dresden artist duo the blue distance. The interior design provides the basic setting for a three-day-long session of transmitting and receiving information, with everyone involved being able to freely select where they stay and carry out activities.
Waterꕀ Source means refreshment, the first step in cleansing and improving your moisture balance all in one, free of charge. Join your local bottlegäng and get your deposit back. Deposits returned at entrance/exit!
Snack﹆ Source gives us coated mouthfuls. These tidbits ensheathed in flour – concentrated and sweet – contain a creamy centre of sesame, adzukis or peanuts. For between, before and after meals.
Massageꘐ Source means contact with yourself and others. There are two compartments: one that you can use on your own and another where A, J and T share their connection to touch with us. Will I or won’t I allow a stranger intimate contact with me? Do I see intimacy as connected to sexuality or not? Become aware of what is happening in your tissues, giving some thought to your feet, your stomach, the movement of your eyes. We discuss beforehand what the massage will include and what not. For the latest updates and time slots, see the profiles at Massage-Source itself. We look forward to seeing you!
The forecourts of the temples invite visitors to explore: to read manifestos on the flokati rug, to get closer to a whisper by means of a joystick or to come up with utopian ideas in the “cool-up area”. May your wells run deep༉.
Antje Meichsner / Shannon Soundquist is a radio maker and sound artist, studied history of arts, psychology and communication science and engaged since years in feminist and antiracial structures in Dresden. She promotes as a part of the DJ collective ProZecco women*, that love to play out their interests in music and deejay. Her own sounds are based on the de- and reconstruction of electronical technoid sound material which Meichsner infers with linguistic admissions, which circle around the condition of the subject in the modern society.
Soundcloud
Magic Island is the digital version of the Canadian Emma Czerny. For some years now, she has been brewing hot stuff from Lo-Fi, RnB and Dream Pop. If these terms do not mean anything to you, rest assured, you will experience breathtaking sound like under water: bell-clear voices of enchanting meekness draw us into the suction of a new state of matter.
magicisland.bandcamp.com
In the mega-artistic summer of 2017, a group of curators, artists and a lawyer set off for the Documenta in Athens. Overwhelmed by the diversity of the city and learned from Athens, we founded KVTV. A culture blog that determines what is talked about. We show what we find interesting from the big and small exhibitions, museums, vernissages and biennials. We’ll come to your vernissage and maybe you’ll be lucky and we’ll make a nice video about you! So be curious when it’s yo yo yo yo KVTV again....
Intimate with the needle
The queer/feminist tattoo artist and illustrator Krause has already put together an impressive tour plan for this year, with guest appearances from Budapest to Lyon.
In her dotwork style, simplicity meets black humour and the aesthetic cornerstones of Generation Giphy. Her tattoos are rather like you might imagine her customers: at once sharp-witted and playfully reticent. Krause’s motifs are inspired both by the simplicity of everyday objects and by the female* body. Her tattoos are all about female* intimacy – a naked body, a hug, a woman with her arms wound tightly around her knees. This is rarely how we show ourselves to strangers. Krause inks this permanently into others’ skin.
Krause will be at the launch of dgtl fmnsm on Sunday to study INTIMACY from her own individual perspective. As a tattoo artist, she regularly touches people on private parts of their body, causes them pain and happiness and is extremely intimate with them for short periods of time.
Starting to feel the urge? Krause has developed an exclusive flash for you and us that is already waiting to be won. Take part now and with a bit of luck you can have a genuine KRAUSE inked under your skin on Sunday at the festival.
Enter by emailing dgtlfmnsm@hellerau.org
An intimate moment and an intimate message that will really get under your skin – Krause and you.
Line Finderup Jensen, a danish artist, shows in her interactive video simulation „Warn others of slippery conditions, so that everyone can walk with caution“ an experience she had herself once at the Oberlaa therme in Vienna. Visitors are invited to take part in the game and navigate around a memory while creating their own. Line Finderup Jensen’s work deals with hegemonic structures and how we experience them, whilst exploring how gaming can be used as a tool in narrating documentaries.
The scenic reading by Tabea Venrath takes place within the installation Platonic Paradise created by Miriam J. Carranza (in collaboration with Lotte Meret Effinger). Platonic Paradise questions the dimensions of the digital self and the potentials of friendship, emotion and affection mediated through technology. The performance takes place in the GOLD+BETON (Cologne) and presented via live-stream as part of dgtl fmnsm in Dresden.
Ena Lind has been pushing boundaries in the electronic music scene in Berlin for over a decade. She is a political minded DJ, producer and co-founder of the network MINT. Since many years she promots women in the electronic music scene and shares her knowledge in workshops. MINT has now grown from a party to a booking agency with feminist approach.
For dgtl fmnsm Ena Lind connects day and night: in the afternoon she teachs a DJ workshop a spart of the festivals’ #skillsharing programme and at night she will become part of the amazing aftershowparty line up at objekt klein a.
Workshop:
During the 3 hours workshop the participants learn about the technology of hanging up with vinyls, explained by first steps. You do not need previous knowledge!
After an extra introduction into the equipment the participants can prove their awareness.
The membership is defined by 10, please apply per mail at dgtlfmnsm@hellerau.org. Fully booked.
„Do it
Told me voices in my mind
When I gone wild“
For you Katrina is an audiovisual music project by a Berlin-based artist and producer, performing under the name Meta.
Their music is a combination of dark ambient and experimental electronic with bits of techno and electro-pop, and a emotional and strong vocal performance. The visual presentation of the project is as important as the music itself. The artist performs in selfmade costumes with extravagant post-gender styles. For you Katrina’s music and stage persona combines strong spiritual and emotional experiences with the invitation to dance and celebrate love and freedom.
The EP HIGH NOTES was published in 2017 as the third album of For you Katrina.
As artists in residence at dgtl fmnsm, Stephanie Comilang and Simon Speiser are working on a collaborative film/ installation involving Paradise, a fictional character played by a drone. In previous works by Comilang, Paradise surfaces as a disembodied voice who speaks of connectedness through adaptation, bodies as archives, and entangled narratives of possible futurities. In this new work, Speiser’s daughter Lotte, who was born in Ecuador, where Speiser’s family is from, lends her voice and knowledge to the fictional character of Paradise. For people like Lotte, born in one place and moved to another, home is an amorphous thing. The familiarity of two places creates a feeling of constant-déja-vu, similar to the card game of Memory, in which the player attempts to pair one card with another. What could this space of deja-vu look like?
Ewelina Aleksandrowicz and Andrzej Wojtas are Polish digital media artists and video directors working under the moniker Pussykrew. They have lived and worked in numerous countries, developing their projects across multiple areas of art and technology.
Pussykrew creates multimedia installations, video clips, av experiences and sculptures, exploring spaces in between digital-physical realms, fluid identities, and futuristic landscapes, through artistic experimentation with 3D
animation and 3D scanning.
Their fascination for virtually generated environments motivates them to play with the contrast between deconstructed digital images and sterile cinematic poetry, using the traditional language of painting. By dealing with the issues of materiality, they’re creating new synthetic-organic forms that are constantly in the process of mutation.
In the last ten years, they have been presenting their collaborative work at international film festivals, art galleries, tech fairs and activation events, including Saatchi Gallery London, Berlin Art Week, Postmasters Gallery - New York, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Carnegie Mellon University, Art Center Nabi - Seoul, European Media Art Festival, Transmediale and 3D Printshow - London, Paris and Berlin (Artist of the Year Award).
Pussykrew is currently a member of NEW INC - New Museum’s art and technology incubator in New York.
GLEAM, in its third programme, presents CALL, CONNECT. Through a series of commissioned performances, we call Don Washington (Chicago, IL), Richard Kennedy (New York, NY), Ei Jane Janet Lin (Chicago, IL), Paula Nacif (London, UK), Daglara and Viscosity (Athens, GR) to join us #LIVE. From their own moments, from their own locations, they come to share with us what is available in the present : a song, a conversation, a point of view, and a word. The evening invites us all to inhabit a shared space through consenting to witness and to be witnessed in 4 consecutive, 10 minute blocks of time. While each performance is showing locally at the festival, the festival is streaming it back onto the net.
The uninterrupted content broadcast connects us all to the the world wide web and the emotions that get caught there in its constantly flowing stream of data. CALL, CONNECT is at once a document, a film, a play, a movie, a chat room, and an invitation. What it isn’t is static or definable. How do we connect with others who are far away? How do we feel their presence and intention through a space that always already distorts the transmission? Does a call evoke yearning? What about warmth?
GLEAM #03: CALL, CONNECT
Curators and moderation : shawné michaelain holloway and Georges Jacotey
In collaboration with Josefine Soppa
DAGLARA&VISCOSITY
Viscosity (aka Katerina Louloudi) is a drag artist and performer based in Athens, Greece. She is currently studying in the Fine Arts School of Athens. Daglara (aka Nikolaos Tsironis) is a fashion designer and drag artist based in Athens, Greece. He has studied fashion in the Royal Academy of Antwerp and he is running his own clothing label since 2015. Together, they are the House of Skorpina, collaborating on art projects, hosting and performing in queer parties in the underground athenian nightlife.
https://www.instagram.com/daglara_experience/
https://www.instagram.com/viscosity__/
RICHARD KENNEDY
Richard Kennedy is a composer, choreographer, and librettist living and working in Hudson , New York while attending Milton Avery Institute (Bard MFA). Richard has presented work recently at Moma Ps1, Artists Space, Danspace, Performa17, Moma, The Studio Museum and Segue Foundation.
DON WASHINGTON JR
Don Washington is an web based artist using video, photography, sound, and writing to navigate personal narratives based in public spaces aka da web. Currently finishing up their BFA at the School of the Art Institute of School. Their work is investigation into the onlines effect on the offline. They have exhibited at Dfbrl8r (Chicago), and Archer Beach House (Chicago). More of their work can be seen at https://vimeo.com/user44791294 and @raw_nda_ on Instagram
xXxtra.Princess
xXxtra.Princess are princesses.
xXxtra.Princess have extracted all knowledge from #WHYPpl and defeated the imperialist, capitalist, ablelist, cis-heteronormative, white supremacist patriarchy.
xXxtra.Princess are weapons/products against/for mass destruction.
xXxtra.Princess are princesses because everyone died.
You can be an xXxtra.Princess too. All you have to do is #Feel.
xXxtra.Princess is currently incorporated by Paula Pinho Martins Nacif and Ei Jane Janet Lin.
http://xxxtraprincess.world/
