PROUD FLESH iteration 1.0 is an ongoing research into queer desire, cruising and its metamorphic potential.

As the composer for this project, I was deeply involved from its inception, working closely with performer Laurean Wagner and curator Anna Bitter. Through extensive composing sessions and rehearsals, we collaboratively crafted a sonic landscape that translated the core themes of desire, tension, sexuality, and transcendent unity into rich musical textures. Each element of the sound design was meticulously developed to embody these emotional narratives.

The project was presented on 27.10.2023 at MOLT Gallery in Berlin

Project description:

Urban cruising spots are a place where the intersections of race, class, and sexuality blur in a dynamic choreography of seeing and being seen, desire and risk. A mycelial setup of intimacy amidst the public. Deeply rooted within cis gay male culture its focus has been on a normative, cis male body as the object of desire. For its first edition presented in October 27th at Molt Gallery Berlin the berlin based collective fatal | violet (Laurean Wagner, Anna K Bitter) brings together artists from several disciplines to create a transmedial performance evening: PROUD FLESH. The presented works (including object installation, live performance, video and live soundscapes) aim to (re)open the cruising territory as a narrative space for queer/nonbinary bodies and their biographies through a sex-positive, queerfeminist lens. A perspective that questions the role of bodies in public cruising spaces as well as the part nature can play as its setting.

Collaborators:
Laurean Wagner (Performance)
ft. Anna K Bitter (Video, Installation)
Jessyca R. Hauser (Performance/Reading)
NANA (Annalise Van Even) (Performance)
Nora Aaron Scherer (Performance, Video)
Nobutaka Shomura (Ambient Live/DJ Hybrid Set)
Haemin Jung (Object, Video)
Moran Sanderovich (Object)