Image: Yen Chun Lin
J. G. Biberkopf (Gediminas Žygus) releases album The Seed, The Sinkhole, The Flower, and The Flare in May 2024 via Subtext Recordings. For its premiere live performance, the record is reimagined as a ghost story about secrecy, presented using d&b audiotechnik’s 360° Soundscape system at the ICA.
The Seed, The Sinkhole, The Flower and The Flare was recorded over four years in settings of borrowed domestic spaces; from sublets to transitory studios. It captures the struggle to maintain a sense of identity amidst external and internal turmoil, touching on subjects of dissociation, embodiment, grief, and trance. Delving deep into the visceral, the release interlaces intimate field recordings, experimental synthesizer techniques and poetic writing. It engages with eroticism, exploring sensuality and sexuality beyond language, the human and the physical.
Elements of the album and performance were produced as part of collaborative work with Holly Childs, Yen Chun Lin and Metahaven, as well as during residencies at 0xSalon (Berlin) and Palais De Tokyo (Paris).
The event will be opened by a performative reading from Billy Morgan.
The Seed, The Sinkhole, The Flower and The Flare was recorded over four years in settings of borrowed domestic spaces; from sublets to transitory studios. It captures the struggle to maintain a sense of identity amidst external and internal turmoil, touching on subjects of dissociation, embodiment, grief, and trance. Delving deep into the visceral, the release interlaces intimate field recordings, experimental synthesizer techniques and poetic writing. It engages with eroticism, exploring sensuality and sexuality beyond language, the human and the physical.
Elements of the album and performance were produced as part of collaborative work with Holly Childs, Yen Chun Lin and Metahaven, as well as during residencies at 0xSalon (Berlin) and Palais De Tokyo (Paris).
The event will be opened by a performative reading from Billy Morgan.
Credits
Lighting Designer: Edward Saunders
Text: Holly Childs
Voice: Elliott Lauren Ryan
Sound Contributions: Yen Chun Lin, Antanas Lučiūnas
J.G. Biberkopf / Gediminas Žygus (b. 1991) is a Lithuanian artist based in Berlin. Their practice explores narrative design and the visceral. Revolving around performances, albums and short films, Gediminas’s work has been performed and featured globally, including recently at the Barbican Centre, Berghain, La Biennale di Venezia, Centre Pompidou, Haus der Kunst in Munich, Palais De Tokyo, The Kitchen, and Unsound, among others. Gediminas holds a Master’s degree in Film, Design and Politics from the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam. Their second solo album The Seed, The Sinkhole, The Flower, and The Flare will be released on Subtext Recordings in May 2024.
Billy Morgan (b. London) is an artist based in Amsterdam, working between performance and text. The estrangement of established frameworks – linguistic, relational, folk-social, erotic – is at the crux of their work. This twist often pivots around language and gesture as conveyors of meaning, power and old tongues. They have shared their work through performances (ROZENSTRAAT, Amsterdam, 2023; Juf Project, Madrid, 2022; The Place, London, 2022; Kem, Warsaw, 2020; Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2020), exhibitions (marytwo, Luzern, 2022 [solo]; Eau Salon, Zurich, 2021; Salon 14, Warsaw 2020), workshops (Siobhan Davies Studios, 2024; PUBLIC LIBRARY, Edinburgh, 2023; Rhubaba, Edinburgh, 2023), on the radio (Montez Press Radio, 2022; Cashmere Radio, 2021) and in print (X-PHILES, Warsaw, 2023; no more poetry, Melbourne, 2022; Modern Queer Poets, London, 2020). They will contribute a new live commission to the forthcoming performance programme at the Institute of Contemporary Arts London this summer 2024, supported by Arts Council England and Performing Arts Fund NL.
Supported by the Lithuanian Culture Institute
Billy Morgan (b. London) is an artist based in Amsterdam, working between performance and text. The estrangement of established frameworks – linguistic, relational, folk-social, erotic – is at the crux of their work. This twist often pivots around language and gesture as conveyors of meaning, power and old tongues. They have shared their work through performances (ROZENSTRAAT, Amsterdam, 2023; Juf Project, Madrid, 2022; The Place, London, 2022; Kem, Warsaw, 2020; Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2020), exhibitions (marytwo, Luzern, 2022 [solo]; Eau Salon, Zurich, 2021; Salon 14, Warsaw 2020), workshops (Siobhan Davies Studios, 2024; PUBLIC LIBRARY, Edinburgh, 2023; Rhubaba, Edinburgh, 2023), on the radio (Montez Press Radio, 2022; Cashmere Radio, 2021) and in print (X-PHILES, Warsaw, 2023; no more poetry, Melbourne, 2022; Modern Queer Poets, London, 2020). They will contribute a new live commission to the forthcoming performance programme at the Institute of Contemporary Arts London this summer 2024, supported by Arts Council England and Performing Arts Fund NL.
Supported by the Lithuanian Culture Institute
07:30 pm
Wed, 13 Mar 2024
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