XEN presents COOL FOR YOU + Soft Opening #237
Doors: 19:30 / Start time: 20:00
Entrance 5-8 euro (up to your offer)
XenoEntities Network (XEN) is very happy to present an evening with Cool For You - the sound/performance project of artist Vika Kirchenbauer - preceded by a performance of the mysterious Soft Opening.
COOL FOR YOU
In decomposing harmonies as colonisers, Vika Kirchenbauer discusses the simultaneous consumption and exclusion of otherness, reframing bodies as heat signatures and sampling from infrared dreams.
Soft Opening
A short presentation with text and music about struggling and finding back.
COOL FOR YOU is the sound/performance project of artist Vika Kirchenbauer, currently working and residing in Berlin. In her work she explores opacity in relation to representation of the ʻotheredʼ through ostensibly contradictory methods like exaggerated explicitness, oversharing and perversions of participatory culture.
She examines the troublesome nature of “looking” and “being looked at” in larger contexts including labour within post-fordism and the experience economy, modern drone warfare and its insistence on unilateral staring, the power relationships of psychiatry, performer/spectator relations, participatory culture, contemporary art display and queer representational politics as well as the everyday life experience of ambiguously gendered individuals.