In Situ - Festival for Explorative Sound and Performance
Day 3: Simian

Jung An Tagen & Rainer Kohlberger
Mariam Gviniashvili
David Helbich
Pamela Angela
Lukas Danys (DJ)

100 DKK (Presale) / 120 DKK (Door)

Simian presents In Situ – Festival for Explorative Sound and Performance. The event series
takes place over three evenings at selected locations in and around Simian in the district of
Ørestad, Copenhagen. In Situ focuses on diverse experimental electronic and electro-acoustic
music and performance, interacting and resonating with the physical space they inhabit.

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Emergence Collapse, the collaborative project of Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Rainer Kohlberger and Viennese electronic music producer Jung An Tagen is nearly beyond description (and perception): An assault on the senses that is at once euphoric and harrowing, at once completely alien and uncannily evocative, their work is perhaps the perfect artistic manifestation of existential angst. Jung An Tagens frighteningly frenetic and earsplitting dissonance is complimented perfectly by Rainer Kohlbergers constantly evolving, neon-tinged visual freak-out. The result is relentless and painfully overwhelming, but like a horror movie, Emergence Collapse demands – and ultimately rewards – your attention.

A festival called In Situ might as well have been created specifically with Mariam Gviniashvili in mind: Working primarily with electronic and electroacoustic music and often utilizing large speaker arrays and moving images, the Georgian, Oslo-based composer and visual artist is particularly interested in the role of spatiality in music. Thus, for Gviniashvili, music is always already intimately connected to the three-dimensional space. Gviniashvilis compositions are wildly abstract and yet constantly evocative of concrete, almost tangible images. Listen, for instance, closely to her piece Allotropy (2019): Is that a door creaking in the distance? Is that a dog barking? Is that glass breaking?

David Helbich is a Brussels-based sound-, installation- and performance artist. Carrying on the legacy of the Fluxus movement, his work is characterized by an ability to combine intellectually complex concepts with striking emotional immediacy. At In Situ, he will present his performance installation Echo-Ovations with Slammed Doors (2021-22), which is based on recordings of the fourteen doors inside Oude Kerk, Amerdam's oldest church, being slammed. Described as a ritualization of the transformative power of disappearing sounds, the performance seems to invoke an analogy between the gradual fading of the reverberating doors and the drifting of the soul. Under the eight centuries old church lie thousands of people buried: "I can't help but imagine a transmigration of souls with each slamming of the doors", Helbich writes.

Pamela Angela is an experimental duo consisting of Mia Ghabarou and Àslaug Magnúsóttir, described intriguingly – and cryptically – as "a construction of many perspectives where bliss weighs against the disruption, aggression covered in romanticism". In their multifaceted approach to production, they draw on classical and electronic music, performance art and dramaturgy. Heartbreaking melodies meet acousmatic music. The duo appears determined to constantly pursue that which is unseen, unheard, and unknown. Pamela Angela’s live performances are as emotionally intrusive as they are
ever evolving. Each of their live shows differ according to the space they are performed in.

Lukas Danys is a Copenhagen-based, Lithuanian DJ, who is known for organizing some of the most interesting experimental electronic music party series in the city. Currently, he is a resident DJ at the Rewild club nights, where he brings his genre-blending, leftfield and eclectic taste. His DJ sets may include anything from metallic percussion tracks to the more euphoric side of IDM as well as abstract forms of contemporary experimental, electronic music.

More info at https://www.ssiimmiiaann.org/