X_ARTS Festival - ein Sound- und Kunstfestival am 20. und 21. Oktober 

Der Eintritt ist gratis!

Timetable:


19.30 DOORS Verein AufFall, Auf dem Wolf 32

20.00 Katja Brunner (Performance/Lesung)

20.50 Jules Petru (Performance)

21.30 Derya Atakan & Laima Priedite (opera core)

22.00 Nichtsdestotrotz (x-over)
23.00 Fiji (electro-clash)


23.30 DOORS WURM, Auf dem Wolf 11

00.00 Féline (Deep House)

01.30 Nesa Azadikhah (House/Techno)

Infos zu den Künstler:innen:

KATJA BRUNNER
Katja Brunner (*1991 in Zurich) is a Swiss author who is not afraid to say unpleasant things. Be it the decline of old age, child abuse or grief, she does not reject negative feelings, but sees them as an important part of humanity and her own texts. ‘Katja is a painter of language,’ says director Heike M. Goetze, with whom Brunner has already realised two plays, such as her first play “Von den Beinen zu kurz”, for which she was the youngest winner of the prestigious Mülheim Playwright's Prize in 2013. And “Geister sind auch nur Menschen”, a play from the abyss of lived lives, against the impositions of old age. Brunner also writes audio plays and spoken texts, which she sometimes performs herself: In “Dimension der Tragödie”, from 2021, she speaks to us from a tower about the dead of the pandemic and those left behind. Her works are not about being presented with solutions, but above all about enduring the fact that certain content is ambiguous. Brunner's plays have premiered at the Schauspielhaus Zürich, Schauspiel Köln, Schauspiel Leipzig and the Volksbühne Berlin, among others. Currently Brunner's Shakespeare adaptation, directed by Pinar Karabulut, is running at the Deutsches Theater Berlin, as well as “DIE HAND IST EINSAMER JÄGER” at the Bonn Theatre. She is part of the Zurich collective Rauf, a regulars' table of female* writers from all over Switzerland, which focuses on intergenerational exchange, networking and archive work in memory of forgotten female artists.

https://katjabrunner.com/

DERYA ATAKAN & LAIMA PRIEDITE
Derya Atakan (born in the Bavarian haze of the nineties)
emerges as an opera performer, bringing together the three forces of opera, punk and the sounds of the Levant. Original compositions and opera references in her work serve as an invitation to collective metamorphosis. The absurdity and comedy of human everyday life, as well as the forces of nature, are brought into focus through the soprano voice. The incompatible and opposing elements embrace. Pathos meets irritation, slapstick meets seriousness, and dream meets reality.
For the set „please pronouns my name” Derya teams up with the producer and performer Laima Priedite. Laima`s music is a constant flow where noisy fragments and crystal-clear melodies wrestle to merge into a hypnotic harmony.
Together they present you an eclectic yet decisive sonic journey of opera core.

https://www.instagram.com/derya.aaatkn
https://www.instagram.com/laimaadelaide

JULES PETRU
Jules will show an excerpt of their newest productions "Trancestors - on the paths of our queer ancestors". Together with their collaborator and co-performer Aaa Biczysko the two genderfluid performers shed light on the paths of their queer and trans*trailblazers in a ritualistic endeavor that ties our trans liberation struggles to our collective freedom struggles of our tumultuous time. Through movement, sound, and audio fragments the piece captures the raw energy of sacred resistance and conjures the spirits of our trancestors. Common threads between Knecht's exhibition "Home Is A Foreign Place" and the rendition of Trancestors are topics of (be)longing, queer ancestory, the common queer liberation struggle, and the role of the trans*community on the forefront.
Credits: Choreography/Performance: Jules Petru Fricker with Aaa Biczysko
Music composition: Lou Drago

http://www.shiazlegz.de/

NICHTSDESTOTROTZ
NichtsDestoTrotz is the new band of Michèle Fuchs, Lysann König and Alain Meyer. Musical style: NDT. The name says it all: New Dumb Theories, Nuclear Dwarf Tunes, Neighbors Drugged Tiffany and Nausea Damage Toll.
They move between different genres and performative expressions and take you on an emotional dark ride to their inner conflicts.
At Library of Performances n°1 they will play their first concert.

https://www.instagram.com/ndt.band

FIJI
‘A seductive, dirty, wild story’. ‘A band with its own aesthetic, its own sound, away from the pop label’. ‘Sexy disco beats, solid techno, spherical, even dark synthpop ballads, trance, lascivious electroclash, with a dash of nostalgia’. (Martin Burkhalter, Berner Zeitung, 2019)

https://fijiband.ch

AFTER PARTY AT WURM (DOORS 23:30)

NESA AZADIKHAH
Nesa Azadikhah is a DJ and music producer from Tehran (Iran). With Deep House Tehran, Nesa has founded a platform that aims to put the spotlight on her country's thriving electronic music scene. She began playing traditional Iranian instruments at the age of six and started her career as a DJ about a decade later. Today, Nesa lives in France and regularly tours Europe and the SWANA region (Southwest Asia and North Africa). She is also the resident DJ at Tes Club in Tbilisi (Georgia). Her musical influences range from 90s techno to ambient and experimental music. As a DJ, she mainly plays techno and house.

https://soundcloud.com/nesaazadikhah
https://www.instagram.com/nesaazadikhah
 

FÉLINE
Féline prefers the warmer, soulful house and techno sounds when she plays in the club. As a connoisseur of various scenes and as head of music at Radio X, she curates a diverse underground music program. She has been organizing parties and festivals herself for almost 20 years. And she gained her first experience as a DJ in the early 2000s in clubs such as Totentanz (“Kombe”) and Nordstern. Since then, she has been a regular DJ at clubs in Basel and Switzerland.

https://www.mixcloud.com/danielle
https://www.instagram.com/feline_le_chat