Crooked was a Hillside event hosted by Kunstraum Niederösterreich featuring contributions by braun.aar, Gimmick, Matthias Holznagel, Victor Eric Heine and Lol K.
Istanbul-based, Istanbul-rooted DJ & producer Eda I. Kartal has established herself alongside experimental, hardcore, and free jazz acts between Istanbul and Vienna. Her sound work presents genre abstraction, contemporary club & techno influences with a hardware-based heart and has been released under the aliases braun.aar and B A.
Gimmick takes the form of filmic sketches that blur the lines between reality and fiction. Staged within a live music performance, everyday actions filmed on camera are intercut with concert footage creating a space of re-imagined narration. The music defies the hierarchies between accompaniment or soundtrack, following its own narrative and at times branching off as continuous loops disrupting or counterpointing the on-screen actions. Bela Demirkalp is an artist and composer drawing from influences of contemporary composition, sound collaging and film. He is interested in finding coherency between media and the structural and abstracted qualities within narration in film and music.
Matthias Holznagel (born 1999 in Freiburg) lives and works in Karlsruhe, Germany. He has been studying at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe since 2019 and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 2023. His artistic practice is concerned with the distribution of images.
Victor Eric Heine (*1999, Berlin) is an East German artist, currently practicing fashion design at Angewandte in Vienna.
Lol K are a duo from South London comprised of CJ Calderwood and Junior XL. Their third release and debut album ‘climbing/holding/falling’ was released via Halcyon Veil, July 2024. Through chaotic, frequently harmonious genre mutations, they create a sonic vision that defies category. They draw inspiration from disparate sources such as post classical, grunge, and contemporary club music. Lol K have been featured in Guardian newspaper’s best new artists list and have gained support from BBC6music with plays from Iggy Pop and producing a ravers hour mix for Tom Ravenscroft as well as several mixes and live sessions for NTS radio amongst others. Outside of Lol K, both members release solo music as ‘Junior XL’ and ‘CJ Calderwood’ and CJ is a member of the band ‘Good Sad Happy Bad’.
Flyer by Juan Francisco Vera
