Beam Splitter x Xiu Xiu

Featured artists (Day 1): bela (electronics), Audrey Chen (voice), Che Chen (guitar), Tashi Dorji (drums), Alex Zhang Hungtai (trumpet), Susie Ibarra (drums), Yuko Kaseki (movement), Thom Nguyen (drums), Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø (trombone), Lane Shi Otayonii (electronics), Hyunhye Angela Seo (piano), Victoria Shen (electronics), Jamie Stewart (guitar), Lisa Ullén (piano), Viola Yip (electronics)

Since 2020, Audrey Chen and Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø have been organizing DEDICATED PLAY in Berlin, where they have invited diverse artists from around the world, primarily from diasporic backgrounds. While spinning a thread through the larger story of migration across continents/oceans and establishing the concept of home in shared relationships, this project seeks to bring together the commonalities of these experiences and express this communication through familial interplay, improvisation and the merging of sonic languages.

For the fourth edition of this project, BEAM SPLITTER will be expanding the concept, teaming up with XIU XIU (Hyunhye Angela Seo & Jamie Stewart) to curate a six day event across two countries, split between KM28 on Dec 7, 8, and 9 in Berlin and London's Cafe Oto on Dec 11, 12, and 13.