20180511 — Janus präsentiert: Elysia Crampton’s “Red Clouds”, Kara-Lis Coverdale, Call Super, KABLAM, Why Be

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Janus präsentiert: Elysia Crampton’s “Red Clouds”, Kara-Lis Coverdale, Call Super, KABLAM, Why Be

Säule

Berlin, DE

Poster: Julien Ceccaldi

20161029 — Janus + NON

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Janus + NON

Corsica Studios

London, UK

Presented by Oscillate Wildly

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20161029 — Elysia Crampton presents Dissolution of the Sovereign: A Timeslide into the Future

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Elysia Crampton presents Dissolution of the Sovereign: A Timeslide into the Future

South London Gallery

London, UK

Bolivian-American producer, sound artist and conceptual collagist Elysia Crampton presents the UK debut of her audiovisual play Dissolution of The Sovereign: A Time Slide Into The Future.

Elysia’s music is an ambitious confluence of ideas, synthesising multiple underrepresented histories, geographies, musical genres and cultural signifiers into addictively colourful sonic material that packs contemporaneous dancefloor weight. Following last year’s American Drift EP on Blueberry Records, her newest work, Elysia Crampton presents: Demon City arrived on Break World this summer: a concept album that works as an epic poem with guest appearances from Chino Amobi, Why Be, Rabit and Lexxi. Dissolution of The Sovereign: A Time Slide Into The Future is the live performance which accompanies this release - bridging Aymara oral history tradition/theatre legacy with Elysia’s own trans-femme abolitionist grasp of futurity.

A collaborative event between Thirty Three Thirty Three and Janus, a club night and record label founded in Berlin.

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20161026 — Thirty Three Thirty Three & Janus present: Elysia Crampton – A/V Presentation

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Thirty Three Thirty Three & Janus present: Elysia Crampton – A/V Presentation

South London Gallery

London, UK

In the lead up to her sold out live performance at South London Gallery's Clore studio, and following DJ slot at Oscillate Wildly : Janus & Non at Corsica Studios, we will host a presentation by Elysia Crampton on her work with A/V examples of her sound & performance practice. Tracing the legacy of indigenous trans and queer history in her work and life, she will discuss music as a means of communication and how it has allowed for survival and preservation amidst oppressive hegemonic power structures. Crampton will give examples of how her own work has connected to the always-fluctuating interrelation between sound and its place in oral history. In the process, she will uncover a more complex notion of being – one that reveals the inherent violence involved in the formation of a sovereign self. From this historical perspective, Crampton will contemplate how different forms of communication within and around sound – from its tactility as a signal to its function as a market and media commodity – can articulate notions of being that are, and have always been, in opposition to the state.

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20160304 — Janus Präsentiert: Total Freedom, Elysia Crampton, Lorenzo Senni, & Chino Amobi

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Janus Präsentiert: Total Freedom, Elysia Crampton, Lorenzo Senni, & Chino Amobi

Berghain

Berlin, DE

Janus präsentiert vier Künstler an der sonischen Peripherie von Pop. Bekannt für seine Experimente mit Trance, bricht Lorenzo Senni das viel geschmähte Genre in seine essentiellen Elemente auf und treibt es mittels Analog-Hardware und Computer-Algorithmen an seine klanglichen Extreme. Die in Bolivien geborene Musikerin und selbsternannte ‚Trans-Evangelistin‘ Elysia Crampton nähert sich über lateinamerikanische Rhythmen dem US-Pop mit ihren einzigartig-immersiven Kompositionen an. Heute wird sie ihr Mini-Pop-Epos debütieren: Dissolution Of The Sovereign: A Timeslide Into The Future – eine Geschichte, die sich als 45-minütige DJ- und Live-Performance entfaltet, in derer „trans-humanoide Arachnoiden die Welt übernommen haben“. Cramptons langjähriger Kollaborateur Chino Amobi ist Teil von NON Records, einem Kollektiv afrikanischer Künstler. Amobi ist bekannt für seine vor Temperament sprühenden Performances, die dronelastige Bässe, frenetischen Noise und rohe Gesangseinlagen beinhalten. Abgerundet wird diese Janus-Nacht mit Total Freedom. Lang schon eine treibende Kraft des amerikanischen Undergrounds und Schlüsselfigur des Fade to Mind-Kollektivs kann Total Freedom so illustre Künstler wie Björk, Arca und Skrillex zu seinen Fans zählen. Hier und heute wird er seine schon legendär-wechselhaften DJ-Sets zum Besten geben.

Poster: Dan DeNorch

20120909 — Janus Präsentiert: Total Freedom, E+E, Why Be, M.E.S.H., Mykki Blanco

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Janus Präsentiert: Total Freedom, E+E, Why Be, M.E.S.H., Mykki Blanco

Chester's

Berlin, DE

Poster: Dan DeNorch