Violent Magic Orchestra: Death Rave • Assmann, Prag, Schall: Star of Xanax
Violent Magic Orchestra was founded in the year 2099 and hail from the planet Halvetech. The only way to get back to their planet is to perform DEATH RAVE – endless dancing and riot transforms into a beam of light that forms a dragon whose path becomes a time tunnel to Halvetech.
The six-piece band from Osaka Violent Magic Orchestra is known for their audiovisual super shows! On 6 June, they will play in the stage design of the preceding performance installation Star Of Xanax by artists Natalie Assmann, Maximilian Prag and Anna Schall, who have invited dancer DaDa JV and music producer IDKLANG. Together they embark on a journey into the unknown, a sci-fi fusion of black metal, gabber, cyberpunk, performance art and techno.
In cooperation with the CTM Festival – with the support of BMKOES*.
Violent Magic Orchestra will play their new album DEATH RAVE on the backstage of the Volksbühne. After touring the world to present their A/V moshpit-live-show, they unveil a milestone in the Japanese hardcore new rave scene with their new musical creations. DEATH RAVE fuses the aesthetics of black metal with the euphoria and rush of hardcore and gabber. The album was released on Gabber Eleganzaʼs Never Sleep label and includes contributions from Attila Csihar (Mayhem), Ican Harem, Gabber Modus Operandi, Infinity Division and Dylan Walker – Full of Hell.
Produced for the S_P_I_T Queer Performance Festival 2023 in Vienna, the artists Natalie Assmann, Maximilian Prag, Anna Schall, DaDa JV and IDKLANG are further developing the multidisciplinary work Star Of Xanax as part of the CTM Festival for Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. Their performative installation stands between climate anxiety, beta blockers and queer utopias of post-humanist visions of the future, which are directly related to the farewells we experience every day in the „here and now“. Star Of Xanax calls for a paradigm shift by acknowledging collective fear and the radical dissolution of hierarchies between humans and matter.
Natalie Assmann is a freelance artist, theater maker, director, curator and performer. Her mostly collective works range between interdisciplinary performance works, festival work, piece developments for the stage and queer-feminist image production in public space. Assmann is interested in forms of collectivity, post-humanist concepts of living together and queer, anti-capitalist future scenarios within and outside of art production. www.natalieassmann.com
Anna Schall is a visual artist with focus on performance, costume, stage design and music. Schalls work stems from a queer-feminist position, looking for safe spaces inside and outside of the body. Anna works for and with artists, actors and musicians in theatres, galleries, public spaces, stages and non-stages of all kinds. Their most recent work includes commissions for performances at Donaufestival, Wiener Konzerthaus or Elevate Festival.
Maximilian Prag is an interdisciplinary artist and designer testing contemporary visual and new media culture. Working with new media technology in between visual communication and art, they create new formats of digital representation, virtual worlds, digital generative imagery and multimedia installations.
Markus Steinkellner lives in Vienna, composing, producing and performing live as IDKLANG as well as part of groups such as Mermaid & Seafruit and Alle Formen Trio. Markus has been performing live in Europe, South America and Asia, including appearances at Donaufestival, Elevate Festival, Hyperreality, Impulstanz, Fuga Industrial or Unsafe+Sounds. They also write music for theatre, dance performances and radio plays, including productions at Berliner Theatertreffen, Münchner Kammerspiele, Ruhrfestspiele, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Residenztheater München or Nationaltheater Mannheim. http://idklang.com/
DaDa JVʼs dance roots lie in traditional Chinese dance and ballet. DaDa JV studied at the Ballet Academy of the Vienna State Opera and has been a member of the ballroom scene since 2015. DaDa has appeared nationally (AT) and internationally as a performer and judge and works in the international performance scene.
