Opening
Common Ground: The Lazarus Effect

17.05.2023 / 19:00 – 22:00
With Bárbara Lázara, Listening at Pungwe

curated by Bárbara Lázara feat. Ahmad Hamad, Robert Machiri, Wolfgang Müller & Aérea Negrot (BPitch)

The opening night of Common Ground is curated by Bárbara Lázara. She connected with two heavyweights of Berlin’s experimental performance scenes: Aérea Negrot and Wolfgang Müller. As spiritus rector of the influential group, “Die Tödliche Doris”, Wolfgang Müller was a key figure of Kreuzberg’s experimental music and art scene in the 1980es and is active as artist and performer since then. Lázara and Müller share a wide common ground of interests, especially in connecting with non-human creatures, reconstructing vanished people, or rebuilding the voice of extinct animals by its description. The title of the night, “The Lazarus Effect”, designates the disappearance and apparent extinction of taxa that later reappear unscathed in the fossil record. At daadgalerie, Lázara and Müller connect for a performative conversation with and about absent bodies, supported by Ahmad Hamad.

The second act will be a contribution by Aérea Negrot, a flamboyant singer-producer-DJ-composer-performer in a bottle. Over the past decades, she crafted her own unique approach, combining technoid grooves, operatic vocals and abstracted pop. Aérea Negrot allows her various disciplines to overlap into something delightfully demented, bursting with personality, a classicist punk cabaret with an irresistibly high level of energy.

The evening will be round up by a DJ set from Robert Machiri, who is also responsible for the Common Ground space design.

photo credit: Eunice Maurice