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In «Fist-fight with a MIDI keyboard», a device as familiar as the MIDI keyboard is taken to its technical, sonic, and conceptual extremes through complex and interdependent MIDI configurations and digitally-augmented interactions. The keyboard becomes a living, capricious, and temperamental instrument that needs the hands, feet, and voice of the character/performer to be tamed. Fortunately, the character does not care about domestication and prefers instead to sound free alongside the piano; two wild animals growling, barking, biting, listening.

The work engages earnestly with visual and sonic references from sources as disparate as extreme metal (corpse paint, blast beats, screaming), classical music (piano recitals, major scales, pompousness), noise and ambient music as raw material to be queered and played with.

Eco Errázuriz
Eco Errázuriz is a composer, improviser and performer from Medellín, Colombia, based in Bern, Switzerland. They are a performer of computers, synthesizers and voice for theater and dance productions, and in solo and collaborative experimental music concerts, where they approach drone, noise and ambient music through open-form compositions and free improvisation. They create scores to be performed by themselves, choirs and audiences. These scores often include choreographic indications and poetic text alongside traditional music notation. Throughout their work, they draw attention to the gestural, bodily dimension of music performance. Lately, they work on embodying genderqueer character-instruments that involve technology as a natural extension of their communicative possibilities.

i want to strike roots with barbs
not to take root,
to embrace roots

what does a body feel like when it takes root, when no roots take hold, or when roots are struck literally?
«wurzeln schlagen»engages with the theme of origin and belonging.

to let roots grow with barbs
to nest myself
to get caught
or for something to get caught on me

lorena cipriano
lorena cipriano is a performer, an independent theatre-maker and cultural worker.
faccio (troppe) cose. sometimes too much, but gladly involved, easily excited, everything an experiment, everything worth a try. they write multilingual texts between drama and lyric. they are currently studying in the master contemporary arts practice, specialising in performance, at the bern academy of the arts.

In our performance Die Sonne zergeht auf der Zunge, we give attention to the theme of uncertainty. We explore how uncertainty can be expressed physically and sensorially. We ask questions such as: What does uncertainty feel like? What does it sound like? How can it be made experienceable without imposing or representing it?

The title is a deliberate reference to the book of the same name by the Lebanese-French artist and author Etel Adnan. Her poetic language, in which political sharpness and personal tenderness meet, is a strong source of inspiration for us. The sun—usually a symbol of clarity and orientation—becomes here a sensorially tangible metaphor for uncertainty: it melts, dissolves, becomes invisible—on the tongue, in the moment, in the body. Just as uncertainty is diffuse, elusive, and yet remains perceptible, we play with fleeting, contradictory impressions and perceptions.

Jasmin Kiranoglu
Jasmin Kiranoglu (*1993 in Hamburg) grew up in Antalya, Berlin and Munich and has been living in Bern since 2013. She is a performance artist, actress and theatre-maker. In her work, she connects body, space, object and audience, engaging with empathy as well as psychological and physical vulnerability. She studied Acting (BA), Expanded Theatre (MA) and Contemporary Art Practice (MA) at the Bern Academy of the Arts. Together with sound artist Matthias Müller, she co-founded the collective Portakal Radikal, which most recently developed a work for the BONE Performance Festival 2024. In 2025, she appeared in Fibsi and the Edge of the Abyss in Zurich as well as in Lasst uns Teilen (Paula Festival St. Gallen), and presented a performance at Kunstraum Bern Bümpliz as part of the memorial exhibition for Norbert Klassen.

Matthias Müller
Matthias Müller (*1998) is a composer, performer and sound artist. He studied at the Bern Academy of the Arts, where he completed a Master in Composition (Creative Practice) and a Bachelor in Sound Arts. In his artistic practice, he explores and creates hybrid forms between sound performance, radio piece and installation. He performs music theatre, sound performances and live electronics in both established and one-off groups, and co-founded the collective Portakal Radikal with performance artist Jasmin Kiranoglu. His works have recently been presented at festivals such as Fleckl, Bern, CH (25), Fiestohr, Bern, CH (25), Bone, Bern, CH (24), Frequenz, Kiel, DE (24) and ACT, Bern, CH (23), and performed by Ensemble Modern, the Bern Chamber Orchestra, the vocal ensemble Ardent and ruido blanco.