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    • ​Nikolaos Vourdoulas & Louisa Doloksa
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    • ​The Death of Queer
    • ​The Squidgina Mermaid
    • Tim Lienhard presents "One Zero One"
    • Tritotetartes (34es)
    • Vassiliea Stylianidou
    • Xana
    • Yorgia Karidi
    • Zillah Minx presents "She's a Punk Rocker"
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Alex Alvina Chamberland

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Alex Alvina Chamberland is a Swedish-American performance artist and writer based in Berlin. Her work focuses on explosivity, intensity, musicality, vocal experimentation, silence, maximalism and (trans)femininity, dealing with subjects such as failure and passivity as a means of resistance to obligatory capitalist success and productivity, as well as loneliness, yearning and collectivity. At Sound Acts she presented "In per trying/Witches decide/My (trans)femininity/Danse Sacrale/No title only tidal wave" which she describes as "something along the lines of beyond gender essentialism and beyond gender neutrality. ​It features a vocal experimentation-portion spanning over 3.5 octaves from low pitch to high pitch via multiphonics, a text song-monologue on the personal struggles of being (trans)feminine in a broader context of vulnerability, care and empathy as well as the pain of this aching world, followed by a staring match with the audience that leads to a self-sacrificial dance till exhaustion and near death based on The Dying Swan and the Nijinsky-choreographed Danse Sacrale-ballet in Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, topped off by a monologue that requires help from the audience to finish reading as the performer (the I that is me) is often so exhausted after the 122 jump dance that she cannot finish on her own. And then: An exiting dance slowly shifting between a being trapped in a wall, a warrior, a becoming of the pollen of a flower and from off stage a schrei speech, a final plea: A SCREAM OF LOVE!!!"

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  • home
  • Acts A-C
    • Abdu Ali
    • Adult Baby Jesus & the Unholy Virgin
    • Aimée Lê
    • Akoo-o
    • Alex Alvina Chamberland
    • Alex C
    • Alkistis-Lara Papadaki
    • Alyssa Moxley & Natasha Poulantza
    • Andriana Minou presents 'Epicycle'
    • Anna-Maria Kanta
    • Aris Powerboy
    • Caoimhe Mader McGuinness
    • Charismatic Megafauna
    • Charles Céleste Hutchins
    • Coral Short
  • Acts D-J
    • Diego Orihuela
    • DoDo
    • DUBAIS
    • Erica Scourti
    • Evan Ifekoya
    • Eve Libertine & Charles Webber
    • Fluffyland
    • Frantic Aerostat
    • FYTA
    • FYTINI 101
    • Holly Ingleton
    • Ianna Book
    • INVASORIX
    • Istanbul Queer Art Collective
    • ​Jennifer Torrence
    • Julischka Stengele
  • Acts K-N
    • Kharálampos Goyós
    • Kostis Stafylakis
    • Les Trucs
    • Lori Baldwin
    • ​Magda Lampropoulou
    • Maria F. Dolores & Hundin Atxe
    • Maria Papadomanolaki
    • Metatheodosia
    • Miss Saturation
    • Mutandini Karl
    • Nanah Palm, Louisa Doloksa & Danai Syrrou
    • Natasha Lall
    • Neo / Neele Hülcker
    • Nicephor Herrantes
    • Nicola Woodham
  • Acts N-S
    • ​Nikolaos Vourdoulas & Louisa Doloksa
    • ​Noemi Veberič Levovnik
    • ​Pan Daijing
    • Panels 2015/16
    • ​Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz
    • ​Peanut Envy
    • ​Pêdra Costa
    • ​Peter Cant & Krzysztof Honowski
    • Pokemon Poetry
    • Procne & Philomela
    • ​Puce Mary
    • Quimera Rosa
    • ​Red Monky
    • ​Robin Buckley
    • Sex Workers Opera
    • Skull After-Party
  • Acts S-Z
    • Sofia Bempeza
    • ​Stellan Veloce
    • ​Submarine
    • Tante & Tante
    • Tara Rodgers
    • ​The Death of Queer
    • ​The Squidgina Mermaid
    • Tim Lienhard presents "One Zero One"
    • Tritotetartes (34es)
    • Vassiliea Stylianidou
    • Xana
    • Yorgia Karidi
    • Zillah Minx presents "She's a Punk Rocker"
    • Zoid
  • Making of
  • team