Thursday 16 June, 4—7pm

Samstag is thrilled to present Exosmosis, a new durational performance by Virginia Barratt & Em König [sadworm].

Over three decades, trans-media artist Virginia Barratt has been instrumental in developing critiques around gender politics and the digital realm, gaining recognition as a pioneer of the cyberfeminist movement in the early ‘90s as founding member of the collective VNS Matrix.

Exosmosis is centered around interaction between Barratt as performer and König’s responsive live soundscape. In this space, the artists explore the pivotal role annihilation has to play in transformation and growth in a work encompassing light, a wall of sound, sticky props, and the body.

Em König is a poet, musician and performer working in Tarntanya/Adelaide who has presented work across Vitalstatistix, The Substation, fine print, Feast Festival and the Emerging Writers’ Festival, in GIRL & Winter Witches, as a solo artist and under the moniker Nina in Ecstasy.

The performance will be live-streamed via the following sites:

https://www.twitch.tv/mmouth_house

https://www.twitch.tv/jemisahologram

An online synthesiser will be live-coded by Lauren Abineri and playable during the performance here: https://virginiabarratt.net/Exosmosis/

Collaborators:

Virginia Barratt: concept, object construction, live vocals and performance, video

Em König: concept, object and instrument construction, live sound processing

Lauren Abineri: rugs, synth coding, Twitch channel live streaming

Mistress Tokyo: Rope design and pod dressing, performance assistance

Margie Medlin: Lighting design and operation

Amanda Calder: Object fabrication, installation assistance

Jam Dickson: Pod steelwork

Live streaming by Replay