To our dear friends and chosen families! Drastic Social is throwing our 2023 Showcase event on Saturday, 23 September, at Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall.

Get your tickets early here! https://landmark.ticketco.events/no/nb/e/drastic_social

We had a successful showcase last year at Bergen Kjøtt, where we brought people together for an eventful night with art, dumplings, talks, music and DJ, and we will do it again this year. We intend to create continuity for people in our community, creatives, artists and musicians involved in 2024.

This year, we will be at a new venue! Thanks to Bergen Kunsthall for inviting us to participate in its 2023 Fall program so our community can reach more people at different locations!

What to expect at Drastic Social Bergen 23 Showcase

21-2145 In dialogue with Anine Fatou Båton of ” Female Minority Voices”
2145-22 Carmilly Yeung Artwork Tasting
22-23 Amalie Sadoni DJ set
23-24 Sam Mountain “Inner Light” EP release
24-0100 Superslut Live in Concert
01-0300 Lars of “Femøren”

“Mid-autumn festival 中秋節” is around the corner. Bertha Chan treats the early birds attending the talk to festive delicacies with a Norwegian Twist — her infamous Brunost Mochi dumplings and mooncakes to start the evening.

Anine Fatou Bråten

We will have a dialogue with Anine Fatou Båten, introducing to our community her project, “Female Minority Voices” from 21-2200.

Carmilly Yueng

Carmilly Yueng, a Hong Kong born visual artist living in Bergen, whom we met at Haunted69a gallery, will present two art project, “egg soup” at 2145

“In many languages, people often use the word “egg” to refer to chicken eggs, and the acknowledgement of eggs of other kinds is overshadowed. Meanwhile, people also have expectations of what food should be like. To challenge concepts like these, Carmilly made an edible sculpture, “egg soup”, with egg yolks shaped like frogs.”

The artwork “egg soup” tasting will be presented to our hosts and the people who signed up for the activity at the event.

Later in the evening, Carmilly will present her second artwork, an installation.

“knock”
Doors are a medium to connect/separate spaces and carry symbolic meanings in various cultures. Carmilly always had a fascination with the ritual of door knocking, which represents an act of seeking permission. The interactions after the knock also reveal an interesting dynamic between the door knocker and those behind the door.

Amalie Sadoni

After the first hour of warming up, getting to know each other and settling into the space, it’s time to move our bodies with positive house and sticky Arabic tunes by Amalie Sadoni at 2200 to ease into the night of music performances. Amalie is a member of Vers Libre Radio, and she has debuted at Vestre this August.

Sam Mountain

At 2300, Sam Mountain, musician and music producer, performs 4 of her tracks from her EP “Inner Light”, which will be released on the 22nd of September.

Superslut

Followed by Superslut at 2400, our beloved electronic visual and sound art genie, with his electrified performance gracing Bergen Kunsthall again.

At our final hours, deep into the night, Sam Mountain will be coming back for a DJ set with her beloved melodic techno, followed by Lars, music show host “Femøren” from Vers Libre Radio, who will immerse the space with trance music as the finale of our showcase 2023.

See you all soon!

Get your tickets early here! https://landmark.ticketco.events/no/nb/e/drastic_social