Urban Arts Berlin proudly presents:
DÍA DE MUERTOS
Performance Art & Music Festival
A night of Berlin based creative projects which bring their strong talents to a very special evening where the Death comes back to life.
ALEXA WILSON - (New Zealand/Performance Art)
Alexa Wilson is a New Zealand artist based in Berlin 4 years, having presented 25 performance works in NZ, Europe, Australia and NYC. In 2015 she did a Red Gate Residency in Beijing to complete the Film version of Extraordinary Aliens and Peripheral Visions presented in the Month of Performance Art-Berlin. She worked with Über Teüchter from Glasgow during MPA-B 2015 and will collaborate with them in Glasgow in 2016. She created a full work on Footnote NZ Dance Company which toured NZ in 2014. In 2012-15 Alexa performed Star/Oracle of Delphi in Frankfurt, NYC, Berlin, Brussels, Poland and New Zealand. In 2013 she performed in Hamburg for Aktionen/Attraktionen, Extraordinary Aliens in MPA-BERLIN and AUSUFERN Festival Uferstudios and Berlin Bedroom Dance screened on an ABC/Disney TV Series USA. In 2012 she worked with Linda Montano in NYC and did a PG Dip Fine Art with Transart in Berlin/NYC. Her works have won awards in NZ, Weg-Away -4 Auckland Fringe Awards '11, Toxic White Elephant Shock – Tup Lang Award '08, Best Choreographer in NZ -Magic Box 04.
alexawilson.blogspot.de
MIRIAM WUTTKE - (Germany/Performance Art)
Miriam Wuttke has been performing mostly as a solo artist in site specific installations during solo- exhibitions, group shows and performance events. From 2006 on she has been showing work revolving around her projects in NYC, Berlin, London, Munich, Hamburg, Salzburg, Miami, Poznan, Padova, Venice and dOCUMENTA(13) Kassel.
miriamwuttke.de?page_id=32
"THE LAND OF DEATH & DISPAIR"
Performance Art work dedicated to Mexico and its War On Drugs supported by the US government which is bringing Death to innocent civilians. We send our best wishes to the Mexican population in such socio-political cirscunstances.
LIVE CONCERTS:
LITHALSA - (Finland/Metal Doom)
Lithalsas occur when ice forms beneath the ground and lifts the earth above it.
Lithalsa are F, J and V who live together and play metal.
Lithalsa can be an ocean of possibilities or a black hole.
lithalsa.bandcamp.com
SPADELOVE - (Germany/Electronic)
Duo project by Chris Dreier (ex-Tödliche Doris) & Frank Lohmeyer playing also in Burqamachines.
vimeo.com/chrisdreier
soundcloud.com/burqamachines
vimeo.com/burqamaschinen
ESPECTRA NEGRA - (Mexico City/Ritualistic Noise)
Solo project by Verónica Mota who also operates as Cubop (active since 2005) in the underground industrial noise & avant-garde scene Berlin's. Her first album "Savage Justice" was released at Schlagstrom festival 2013 which is one of the best industrial festivals in Germany. This album got such an excellent resonance that she has become now one of the best international female (solo) noise & industrial projects including Pharmakon(US), Puce Mary (DK) or Dry Greed(UK), to mention some. What makes her sound works authentic is her constant sonic research on Shamanic and Ritualistic music. A fascinating tool she uses to exorcise her audience.
This year Espectra Negra's second album "Alchemy & Death" is certainly very promising, and it will be release by the cult Japanese label Lust Vessel who offered her a permanent contract (home label) from 2014 on. She has a large amount of sound works as Cubop which are now been printed also by Lust Vessel as a Three Volume Archival Works. Her printed releases are plenty including a tribute compilation to COIL (UK).
Currently Espectra Negra is working on a split tape with Instinct Primal (dark ambient master) from Czech Republic, and also a new one with the legend solo project TZII from Belgium.
espectranegra.bandcamp.com/album/savage-justice
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mN6SYndggY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG8y1Ekp9oU
ANEMONE TUBE
Anemone Tube was founded 1996 in South-Germany; since 2010 based in Berlin. The audio works of Anemone Tube are a unique blend of dark ambient, noise, industrial and sound-art with a strong psychogenic impact. The use of constantly shifting and altering sounds and moods is possibly one of the most intriguing things about the audio creations of Anemone Tube.
Since 2007 Anemone Tube has been working on "The Suicide Series". To this field-recordings made in China and Japan build a conceptional basis. In a poetic way Anemone Tube combines analytical realism of the phenomenal world with buddhist psychology and nihilist rhetoric influenced by the works of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Michael Haneke, Hayao Miyazaki, H.P. Lovecraft and H.G. Ballard. Live Performances since 2008: Anenzephalia (D), Cut Hands/William Bennett (UK), Troum (D), IRM (SE), Jarl (SE), Last Dominion Lost (Aus), BJ Nilsen (N), Dave Philips (CH), Sudden Infant (CH), Wraiths (UK), The (Law-Rah) Collective (NL), Trepaneringsritualen (SE), Post Scriptvm (USA), Schloss Tegal (USA), Inade (D), Machinefabriek (NL), among many others.
On this occasion Anemone Tube will perform a special old-school industrial/noise set, presenting material from the early days 1996-1999.
www.anemonetube.de
LOLITA TERRORIST SOUNDS - (Italy/Experimental)
Maurizio Vitale is active in a number of artistic fields as drummer, guitar player, performer, singer. Recently he has been collaborating with such artists as : Bob Rutman, Doudou N'diaye Rose, Kristof Hahn (Swans), NU Unruh (Einsturzende Neubauten).
lolitaterrorist.wix.com/lolitaterrorist
PRIZMS - (Sydney/Ambient)
Coming from an strong electronic Techno field PRIZMS will delight us with an excellent ambient journey for this special
Day Of The Dead occasion.
soundcloud.com/prizmsofficial/sets/prizms-lp/s-siul4
DJ NEKROBOT (Greece)
After Djing an eclectic sound for several years in Athens, Nekrobot relocated to Berlin and immediately gained DJ residency at the infamously transgressive party, Sabbat. He has played in a diverse range of parties, art events and music festivals throughout Europe collaborating with musicians and artists from all over the world. Focusing on deconstructing the modes and means through which sound and vision is experienced, his selections echoes decades and traverses genres. Nekrobot is currently working with Berlin-based DJ and musician, A/Ona, on an experimental music project called Toise. He lives and works in Berlin.
www.mixcloud.com/nekrobot/
Sunday Nov.01.2015 @ MAZE, Berlin.
Note:
Not all projects could send a sonic track for the final compilation. We decided to release it anyway.
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Once a year the Aztecs held a festival celebrating the death of their ancestors, while honoring the goddessMictecacihuatl, Queen of the Underworld, or Lady of the Dead. The Aztecs believed that the deceased preferred to be celebrated, rather than mourned, so during the festival they first honored los angelitos, the deceased children, then those who passed away as adults. The Mictecacihuatl festival lasted for an entire month, starting around the end of July to mid-August (the 9th month on the Aztec calendar), during the time of corn harvests.
After the Spaniards conquered the Aztecs in 1521, they tried to make the Aztecs adopt their Catholic beliefs. They didn't understand the Aztec belief system and didn't try to. As Catholics, they thought that the Aztecs were pagan barbarians and tried their best to squash the old Aztec rituals and fully convert the indigenous people over to their Catholic beliefs, but they failed.
What they accomplished was more like a compromise; a blend of beliefs. The Spanish conquerors succeeding in shortening the length of the Mictecacihuatl festival to two days that conveniently corresponded with two of their own Catholic holidays: All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day, which take place onNovember 1 and 2 of each year.This change was a key point in Dia de los Muertos history.
The Spanish convinced the indigenous people to attend special masses on those two days to commemorate the dead, as they tried to shift the original Dia de los Muertos history and meaning to suit their own Catholic purpose. However,the native folk customs and traditions prevailed. Over the centuries, these traditions transformed into the present Day of the Dead, bestowing Dia de los Muertos with the color, flavor, and fervor that has made it a world-famous holiday.
Even the old Aztec Goddess Mictecacihuatl found a new identity as the modern "Catrina" — the lanky, skeletal female figure (shown left) bedecked in sumptuous clothing and giant ornate hats, who serves as a reminder that death is a fate that even the rich can't avoid.
released October 28, 2015