EEXXOO is a new series of events at Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz that focuses on experimental electronic composition and musical performance.
Sound engineers and musicians will spend this summer mixing their concerts on stages across Europe for maximum recognizability and usability – in contrast, EEXXOO is exploring new forms of musical experience. To this end, EEXXOO leaves the restrictions of concert halls behind and sees sound, performance and architecture as equal parameters. It is a series dedicated to music as an art form (in the sense of a free, non-naturalistic application of sound). For all those who like to think and listen at the same time or simply want to lie with their face on the floor.
On 20.9 the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz will open the entire theater space and presents a new show by the British artist Blackhaine, which moves between choreography, visual and sound art, as well as a new performance by Bianca Scout, whose work fuses the membranes of contemporary dance, ambient and chamber music. Scout will present her album Pattern Damage with a specially conceived show.
Blackhaine is a British contemporary artist whose radical approach to drill & noise musics and performance extends to choreography and immersive A/V installation, including creative direction. Originating in the static anxiety of 2020, Blackhaine’s multimedia work expresses a visceral transition from stomach-knotted dread to exhaustive, prang-out negative ecstasy. A politics shaped by northern English life and culture informs his hybrid dramaturgy of voice, movement, and scenography in context of theatre of cruelty theology.
Driven by a pursuit of nihilism as honesty, his physically demanding performances – known to leave him bloodied and bruised – deploy durational and pressurised technique in genre-shattering, recombinant forms at once intimate and confrontational. In live situations Blackhaine stages deconstructions of his catalogue and works in progress. Each performance differs from another but share a persistent conviction on experimenting with forms in flux between noise, punk and ambient, avant dance and poetry.
Bianca Scout is a musician with a background in contemporary and classical dance, whose performances combine movement direction and storytelling, within a distorted landscape of displacement, yearning and the undead. Scout’s mysterious mix of pop and grunge feels fractured but whole. In her hands, Medieval church music and vocal harmony blend into a brooding drew punctuated by fits of dusty breaks and smothered percussion. She steers you into the abyss, yet is the compass that guides your way back out.
