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Abdu Ali Erected from the ghettos of Baltimore, Abdu Ali raps, sings, and chants over unorthodox and future sounds, creating music that is visceral, spiritual, and very real. His energetic splanchnic performances are inviting audiences in a cosmic, punk, and soulful tempest on stage and his work that transcends musical boundaries blurs between afro-futurism, noise rap to “post-apocalyptic” sounding. |
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Adult Baby Jesus & the Unholy Virgin This project is the ornery offspring of Philadelphia noise musician Jennifer Bronson (Rat Catching) and San Francisco performance artist Matt Cornell. It was conceived at the legendary queer cabaret night at the Vrankrijk nightclub in their adopted home of Amsterdam. The performance will be divided in two parts: “Changes” in which Adult Baby Jesus and the Unholy Virgin perform a ritual of enmeshment, autonomy and maternal role reversal. The second part “The Aural Stage” will outline all the ways in which “Noise music sucks”. |
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Alex Alvina Chamberland Alex Alvina Chamberland is a Swedish-American performance artist and writer based in Berlin. Her work focuses on femininity, explosiveness, sensitivity and intensity. Heal the world or die trying/Witches decide/My (trans)femininity/Danse Sacrale/No title only tidal wave is a performance about (trans)femininity along the lines of beyond gender essentialism and gender neutrality. |
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Alkistis-Lara Papadaki Alkistis-Lara Papadaki is a visual artist from Athens. She makes collages and objects. She very much likes abject art, the majority of experiences that have to do with food and the coexistence of warmth and comfort in a setting of uneasiness. In Sound Acts she will present a screening, there will be snacks. |
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Charismatic Megafauna Charismatic Megafauna is a three-piece feminist dada party punk band born from a need to rage and dance. They mainly use drums, synth drums, drum pads and voices in their performances. They describe their performances as "reverse cheerleading" and something between skeletal punk, thunderous tribe and the brink of total collapse. |
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Coral Short Coral Short is an interactive media artist, curator and organizer of workshops and collective queer events in North America, Asia and Europe (Berlin, Paris, Hamburg, Glasgow, London, Beijing). In recent years, she has been organizing and bringing together artists in various cities, such as Women with Kitchen Appliances, Scream Choir, Laugh Choir, and Fake Orgasm Choir. They curate screenings, and also create their own evolving videos around the topics of sexuality and identity through many conversations within their communities. In Sound Acts will present a human noise workshop on sound experimentation and production from the body based on their previous experiences in working with the voice as an instrument. |
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DUBAIS DUBAIS is the multimedia Arabfuturist project of the multidisciplinary artist, cultural activist and musician Nadia Buyse who lives between Portland and Berlin. Nadia Buyse's performances are both audiovisual and physical, since with her lyrics and her own body she comments on the experience of the queer, non-white and nomadic body. In Sound Acts she will present the Americas project which involves elements of dance, storytelling, video installation, blood, tears and sweat. |
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Evan Ifekoya Evan Ifekoya is a multidisciplinary artist who explores the politicization of contemporary culture, wider society and aesthetics. Ifekoya’s current work investigates the possibility of an erotic and poetic occupation using film, performative writing and sound, focused on co-authored, intimate forms of knowledge production and the radical potential of spectacle. Their ongoing project 'A Score, A Groove, A Phantom' explores archives of blackness, sociality and inheritance as they diffract through queer nightlife and trauma in the present moment. |
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Ianna Book Ianna Book is a multidisciplinary trans artist living and working in Montreal, QC, Canada. During her period of transition (2010-2013), she published Trans Avenue, a photographic essay on transsexuality and the urban context. She is the curator of Trans Time, an international transgender group exhibit presented in Montreal (2014) and Paris (2016). In Sound Acts she will present "Social Noise", a conceptual video that explores the notion of noise as a rumour echoing through social space. |
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Julischka Stengele Julischka Stengele is an interdisciplinary artist and worker based in Vienna. Her work has a queer feminist frame of reference, focusing on the fat, classed and gendered body and strategies for empowerment. Her Performance "Not for Oscar" deals with the struggle to self-love, collective care and consent. The audience is invited to join her in this process first as viewers, then through individual encounters. |
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Lori Baldwin Lori Baldwin is an artist originally from the USA, currently living and working in Budapest. As a BDSM practitioner, she is interested in the intimacy that can be created in subversive and explicit power dynamics and the physical actions that accompany them. In Sound Acts she will present The Villages, a solo performance and sound piece that was born out of frustrations with her biological family. The Villages offers the space for a moment of unexpected connection, challenging preconceived notions of how we typically connect with one another. |
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Magda Labropoulou Magda Lambropoulou lives and works in Athens where she also studied sculpture. Her project for Sound Acts will make a commentary on disability and the derision and pity towards people who wear hearing aids. Her performance will include elements from her personal experience and relates to the stigmatised body which is slowly driven to isolation like an abject. |
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Metatheodosia Metatheodosia creates collages made of found sounds in greek reality and prose of a queer-meets-prol housewife pompous personality. Metadeothosia’s persona carries remnants of the “training” that female identified subjects receive as they grow up within a greek context, dressed up with elements of alternative modern culture, creating a queer identity which is sometimes visually loud and other times minimal and serious. At Sound Acts Metatheodosia will present a video installation from the performance Σεμέν which deconstructs the female read body as a medium for reproduction, intimacy and mysticism through the use of menstrual blood. |
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Mutandini Karl Mutandini Karl is Charlotte Simon’s solo project. Charlotte Simon is an artist, musician, performer and music producer, a member of the MMODEMM label and performer in various collectives, including Kristallo and Les Trucs. Influenced by dada, her performance and music do not follow classic rules, they are full of fantasy elements from the past and the future with characters that combine cyborg, alien fantasies and fashion from the Middle Ages. In Sound Acts she will present a performance with electronic melodies with dancers from the local queer community. |
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Noemi Veberič Levovnik Noemi Veberič Levovnik is active in the field of performance, music, visual arts and moving image. Her practice uses dada elements with which she examines new identities, reflects on everyday life in a personal and social level, reflects the unrecognizable, traverses the subconscious and tests the boundaries between reality and fantasy. At Sound Acts she will present her performance Cat commenting on woman’s roles and the female body in the reproduction process, the pressure that the female body receives to accept and perform its role in any possible way. |
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Pan Daijing Pan Daijing is a musician from China who has been living in Europe and the US over the last four years. Feminism, power relations and the abolition of gender norms play an important role in her work, and the way she creates music. In Sound Acts she will use the overwhelming space of Piraeus 260, playing with its architectural volume and intensity to present one of her dark, violent performances that are extremely physical, atmospheric and impregnated with BDSM elements, sexuality and trauma. |
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Peanut Envy Skyler Braeden Fox is an artist, musician, performer and director from Canada, who lives and works in Berlin. The genderbending artist combines music with narrative elements, drag and performance art. His lyrics are autobiographical and very personal, and through them he tells his story in queer life, the process of his transition as a trans man, criticizing Western transphobic methods of western medicine practice, challenging stereotypes of femininity / masculinity and his past having grown up in a conservative Christian society in Ottawa. |
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Pedra Costa Pêdra Costa is an anthropologist and performer based in Vienna/Berlin and studying at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In Sound Acts, they will present a video performance that blends drag queer, D.I.Y. and post-porn with the beats of Baile Funk, a genre from the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro. The performance uses Baile Funk as a tool of political resistance, and distorting its initial form, it promotes a true explosion of cathartic dance and politics. |
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Puce Mary Puce Mary is the nom de plume of Frederikke Hoffmeier, an experimental musician who lives and works between USA and Denmark. Her sound features an unremitting use of feedback, noise and guttural screams to climactic effect. Becoming a staple of the touring circuit within the noise scene, Hoffmeier's brutal use of electronics transfer just as well into a live space providing an epileptic, claustrophobic, intense aggressive penetrating sound during her performances. In Sound Acts, Frederikke will perform a live noise industrial set. |
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Red Monky Red Monky is a feminist performance trio consisting of Miriam Siebenstädt, Su-Mi Jang and Manon Parent who live and work in Berlin. Their work is related to improvisation as a correlation between sound and movement. They decided to work with improvisation as a permeable feminist entity that will develop over time, as a band could develop. Thematics that repeat in their multimedia work is interdisciplinary, artistic / human extension of cooperation and the architectural structure of the space the performance takes place. |
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The Squidgina Mermaid The artists Anna Ketikoglou, Antigone Tsagkaropoulou and Lydia Miligkou will present the performance "The Squidgina Mermaid" which is inspired and influenced by Joan D. Vinge’s fictional science fiction book "The Snow Queen" which is a renegotiation of the homonymous book By Hans Christian Andersen. "The Squidgina Mermaid" is an equally hybrid remodeling of the story "The Little Mermaid" by the same writer. Through an improvised, incoherent, hysterical speech production process, they will transform the peaceful world of the little mermaid into a proctocentric, feminist, chthulean story. |
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Stellan Veloce Stellan Veloce is a Sardinian composer and performer based in Berlin. Their work ranges from instrumental compositions to performance art informed pieces. In their performance for Sound Acts they will focus on the human voice and its role in the construction of a sense of self. They will use vlogs of transgender youtubers in order to investigate the form, genesis and repercussions of shared narratives, as well as recordings from Dolly Parton’s autobiographical reading as an example of post-human, hyper real femininity. |
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Submarine Submarine is an artistic duo of Egyptian artists based in Cairo, working with visual/sound art, interested in sound manipulation, sound politics and social movements. At Sound Acts, Jacqueline and Sara are going to do a 30 minute live performance using field recorded sounds from Cairo. Their sonic bricolage draws inspirations from the flow of urban centers, infrastructure of cities, histories, narratives and geo-politcal tensions making a commentary on the current socio-political tension in the middle east. |
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Tritotetartes Tritotetartes are a post-punk, post-internet, post-avant-drag queer collective from Katerini. They describe themselves as third/fourth-rate girls, and they have been part of sound acts in different forms since its beginning, from impromptu to grotesque staged-TV-show performances. Their recent work includes performances for Documena, a performance project that offers a critical point of view towards the settlement of Documenta 14 in Athens. Their main motto is: "You can brush our hair, undress us everywhere." This year their performance will go beyond anything you might have seen until now. |
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Xana Xana is an artist who works mostly with loops, creating live performance and audio installations. Xana embraces body politics by bringing them into dialogue with futuristic narratives and themes related to migration, data and archives. They combine programming and multidisciplinary soundtracks that mix elements from beatbox, vocal harmonies, file tones and poetry. Their performance encourages the public and the participating artists to invest in the prospect of creating a revolutionary live sound sculpture. |
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Ximena Alarcon Ximena Alarcón is a UK based Colombian sound artist and Research Fellow at CRiSAP, London. Her practice-based research focuses on the creation of telematic sonic performances and networked environments to expand our sense of place, using field recordings and spoken word in urban and migratory contexts. In Sound Acts she will conduct a workshop on Deep Listening which invites refugee women in Athens to listen to Fertile Soil. |
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Zoid^ Zoid^ is a duet of experimental electronic music and performance, combining abstract electronic sounds, elements of ritual dances, politically charged lyrics and video collage, creating vivid experiences of a politicized 21st century semiotic complex. |
