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A re-imagination of stadium techno as an intimate, immersive experience.

In the endlessly expanding horizon of Australian experimental music, Simona Castricum has carved out a position at the very edge of what’s next. Here she combines her talents with the light and projection marvel of Carla Zimbler to create a live sonic experience of uncommon depth.

Informed by Castricum’s background in architecture, the pair blurring the distinction between sonic and spatial experience, SINK adopts a conversational performance, an event for destabilisation of the cisnormative world, of personal catharsis and revelation, and of connection to the nonconforming world.

SINK reimagines the experience of stadium techno, stripping back to minimal elements of percussion and projection to create an intimate, immersive relationship between audience and performer. The capacity to disrupt and challenge cisnormative spatial production is the opportunity to transform archives of trauma into experiences of life, joy and delight.

From the artists

‘For SINK, the curtain of string hung from the asterisk frame serves as a literal extrusion of the graphic used in architecture and urbanism marking an event of significance. The curtain is also a metaphor for site: music and performance as a site of transing. It’s an event for destabilisation of the cisnormative world, of personal catharsis and revelation, and of connection to the nonconforming world. The projections evoke portals into emotion, of place, in wayfinding, and of strategy and process. The curtain’s vertical rotating axis suggests universal forces I cannot control, and often feel compelled, forced to resist. It lurks over my shoulder, it creates its own ceiling, of inescapable compression. The heavy lifting is tiresome. SINK suggests its ok to just surrender to it and find a place within it to rest. To fall, to sink.’

‘My transness, my queerness is characterised by this – finding a place of relative calm, and safety within the hostility of the cisnormative, heteronormative world. Leaning into belonging, sinking into the darkness, dreaming of a future. Building my own cognitive world. To rise from the heaviness, to find the shallows from which to walk again, to find a way out of the deep, to be continued. Perhaps even to reimagine this site, this ceiling as a place to install my own beautiful chandelier. Utopia/Dystopia. My own negotiation with the cisnormative paradigm is to build genuine relationships, and exist freely in civic life. To drum, to dance, to sing. With you, together. In safety, belonging, permanence.’ – Simona Castricum

Praise for the artists

‘Simona Castricum’s new album ‘Panic/Desire’ is a dynamic work of urgent synth-pop.’ Beat Magazine

‘While cerebral, ‘Panic/Desire’ is ultimately emotionally transportive.’ TheMusic

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Artists

Simona Castricum percussion, electronics, vocals, installation design
Carla Zimbler projection, installation design