Kris Canavan; Sculptural installation, labour intensive durational works, repetitive actions and ritualised processes have all been utilised and explored through body based trauma, to create works of visual poetry that focus on the body as both a site for representation and metaphor.

Canavan unflinchingly drags their body through the filth and the detritus of existence, to make commanding and challenging work that is as beautiful as it is horrifying. They forge a path that many would be afraid to walk, not because of any sense of machismo, but because the body and it’s resources are the frontline of the human condition and their body is the lighting rod for action.

SMR.TNI; Power electronics as immanent self-empowerment. The music of smr.tni draws the line where pain degenerates into an end in itself and aesthetics into pathos. A permanent, multidisciplinary reworking of biography, trauma, humanity, and inhumanity. No sound without a purpose, no line of text without intent, and no detours: smr.tni’s performances are direct, intense, raw, and loud.

Rhizome Weaver; Harsh noise as evaluation of intimacy. Rhizome Weaver constitutes a caustic backdrop to the immanent characteristics of movement in and through biography, psychological mapping and the constant flux in becoming und unbecoming as a  person. Barely relatable to the listener yet highly personal in character: brittle waves of crushed static and layered textures of feedback, heavily infused with obsession and the precise urge to communicate through volume.

The Vidadöd; A journey that reminds us through perserverance and acceptance of pain comes growth, reflection, beauty and peace. In a society and world where so much pain yields us, yet these emotions and notions are not deemed socially acceptable to express, we must move to art forms and other practices of expression to relate and release. We must find our own rituals and spaces to safely unleash the practise of truth. Unmasking of the ego, unmasking of the day to day, unmasking of the coping, grinding, surviving, and even thriving of capitalist life.
Dancing in bl°°d, a dance confronting pains. Contemporary emotive dance movement.