Convergence A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration of Experimental Arts. With Ioana Cristina Casapu, Days Like Television, Andreea Hriscu and Georg Leß 10.02.24 in Berlin, Lettrétage

CONVERGENCE is an evening of immersive, multi-sensory performances, exploring dialogues between sound, text, and visuals. The evening will host a reading accompanied by a gong performance, a screening of a short-film which explores ideas of how moving-image and poetry might interact and coalesce, and two extended experimental performances at the intersection of sound, movement, text and visual art.

Join us at CONVERGENCE as we delve deep into a collective liminal state, immersed within challenging, immersive, and enriching performances that defy traditional categorizations and emotions.

Moderation: Tom Bresemann

Ioana Cristina Casapu is a Romanian writer and artist living in Germany. She has written two books (Heart Beats - A Memoir of The Millennial Generation on Social Media - 2019, and Deviații de Stereo, 2016) and published in over 30 magazines and anthologies. Her work, which includes memoir, short prose, poetry and conceptual interventions, contains independent ideas on feminism, migration, modern life and loneliness. She uses immersive journalism, sociological research and her own correspondence as a medium between the physical and digital worlds in an ongoing exploration of language and the ways in which technology and human emotion intertwine to create new ways of communicating and connecting.

Days Like Television is the solo moniker of Daniel Bryden, an experimental musician and video artist based in Berlin. Using found-sounds, improvised instrumentation, and manipulated samples, Bryden crafts immersive aural landscapes which pulsate with an underlying tension and tactility. Live shows are evocative, expansive, and moving- spanning ambience, improvised noise, music concrète, and a fractured, unhinged electronica. Bryden has presented A/V performances at ICA (London), La Vallée (Brussels), Madame Claude (Berlin), and VEKKS (Vienna). His upcoming album is due to be released on Bonambi Records in Spring 2024.

Andreea Hriscu is a Romanian visual, performance and sound Berlin based artist. With a background in architecture, she opened her first solo painting exhibition in 2016 at the Romanian Cultural Institute in Beijing, China, and her first live painting performance in 2018 in Beijing, followed by other performances in Bangkok and Berlin. Her photography and painting are mostly abstract, her sound projects constitute of dark ambient soundscapes, and her painting performances are dark, emotional, and viscerally intense. They explore and embody different aspects of the psyche: the subconscious, the hidden aspects of the self and the unfelt raw emotions. Within this embodiment, she becomes fully immersed in the artistic process, blurring the boundaries between the self, the process, and the object.

Georg Leß, geboren 1981 in Arnsberg, lebt in Berlin. 2013 erschien seinGedichtband Schlachtgewicht in der parasitenpresse, 2019 die Hohlhandmusikalität und 2023 die Nacht der Hungerputten, beide bei kookbooks. Ausgewählte Gedichte wurden in zahlreiche Sprachen übersetzt, vertont und verfilmt, und u. a. mit dem Förderpreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen für junge Künstlerinnen und Künstler ausgezeichnet.