Eek, Female Wizard, Harrison Hall, Sam Mcgilp present „STACK“ // Emme
CTM Festival 2025
Concert Performance
Emme © Jeremy Baxter
Ticket Prices
24 Euro, reduced 19 Euro
Tickets are sold via the CTM Festival ticketing platform:
www.ctm-festival.de/festival-2025/tickets
This evening brings together explorations of survival and speculative transformation through gut-grabbing, multimedia storytelling.
Curated in partnership with Sydney festival and production platform SOFT CENTRE, "STACK" is a live film experiment by Harrison Hall, Eek, Sam Mcgilp, and Alexander Powers that reimagines sci-fi horror through posthumanism, bio-capitalism, and ecological themes. Oscillating between traditional theater and media overload, "STACK" critiques uneven power dynamics and decorporealization, merging cultural commentary with speculative horror.
Emme’s debut project "Heaven Help Me" is a 30-minute solo opera exploring survival after an abusive relationship. Blending shrieked vocals, dystopian soundscapes, and elements of emo, noise, and hardcore aesthetics, Emme creates a haunting yet hypnotic experience. Drawing on her punk and rave roots, the work combines chaos and control, making it both brutal and beautiful. As the first chapter of a trilogy, this visceral piece intertwines raw emotional storytelling with avant-garde performance art.
Further informations: www.ctm-festival.de
Cast
With
Eek
Female Wizard
Harrison Hall
Sam Mcgilp
Emme
Biographien
Bringing contemporary performance and dance into immersive art environments, Harrison Hall blurs the lines between digital and live experience. Hall’s work explores the fluidity between virtual and physical worlds, enriching the embodied aspects of mixed-reality performances. After touring globally with top Australian dance companies, he launched Venusian Slip in 2018, a project that opened doors in Naarm's dance scene and led to a series of acclaimed choreographic works.
AKA Eek, Henry Lai-Pyne is a Naarm-based new-media artist whose work spans moving image, live multimedia performance, game design, and broadcasting. His art explores the dynamic interactions between people and screen-driven technology, often challenging viewers to rethink these relationships. Known for his innovative use of »kitbashing«—a creative blend of mixed media, unconventional materials, and found objects—Henry brings unique visual narratives to life in his projects.
Alexander Powers is a defining force in Naarm’s queer dance music scene. Reshaping the city's soundscape for nearly a decade, Powers’ boundary-breaking sets as Female Wizard draw on punk, post-modernist dance, and an ethos of gender inclusivity, blending noise, industrial, IDM, and leftfield techno to create liquidic sonic narratives. As the co-founder of Powertrip—a club night, mix series, and label—Female Wizard has built a community-driven platform for experimental artists and queer visibility, solidifying her role as both artist and advocate within the city’s underground.
Naarm-based media artist Sam Mcgilp collaborates in contemporary performance, creating across film, live installations, and digital spaces. Through his work, Mcgilp redefines how performance art lives and evolves within digital frameworks, opening new avenues for media in contemporary performance. His creative projects often emerge from unique intersections of performance and media.
Born in Argentina, now rooted in Berlin and active across Europe and South America since 2016, Emme’s performances transcend the boundaries of audio and visual artistry, inviting audiences into an otherworldly experience—an aural world which feels like stepping into a shapeshifting dreamscape. Her artistry melds screamed vocals with intricate, dystopian soundscapes, crafting a brutal yet beautiful fusion of emo, noise, and hardcore aesthetics with the elegance of modern dance and avant-garde performance art.
Programme
Eek, Female Wizard, Harrison Hall, Sam Mcgilp
„STACK“
(European Premiere)
Emme
„Heaven Help Me“
CTM 2025 will visit Radialsystem over seven consecutive days from 27 January to 2 February, uniting music experimentation and performances with a 5-day discourse programme and an artistic lab.
This festival edition will run without an overarching theme, instead exploring a series of new and ongoing thematic strands. One of several points of focus will be on how traditional art forms and aesthetics can be reinterpreted within modern sound and performance, outside of (self-)exoticisation and the uneven power dynamics created by mass-cultural and other stereotypes.
→ To the complete programme of CTM Festival 2025 at Radialsystem
Credits
"STACK" is curated in partnership with SOFT CENTRE. The CTM 2025 Festival programme at Radialsystem is funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Goethe-Institut, Federal Foreign Office, SHAPE+ and tekhné programs of the European Union, Pro Helvetia, the Embassy of the Netherlands, and Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
Media partners: Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Refuge Worldwide, The Wire, The Berliner, Rausgegangen, taz. die tageszeitung and tip Berlin.
This evening brings together explorations of survival and speculative transformation through gut-grabbing, multimedia storytelling.
Curated in partnership with Sydney festival and production platform SOFT CENTRE, "STACK" is a live film experiment by Harrison Hall, Eek, Sam Mcgilp, and Alexander Powers that reimagines sci-fi horror through posthumanism, bio-capitalism, and ecological themes. Oscillating between traditional theater and media overload, "STACK" critiques uneven power dynamics and decorporealization, merging cultural commentary with speculative horror.
Emme’s debut project "Heaven Help Me" is a 30-minute solo opera exploring survival after an abusive relationship. Blending shrieked vocals, dystopian soundscapes, and elements of emo, noise, and hardcore aesthetics, Emme creates a haunting yet hypnotic experience. Drawing on her punk and rave roots, the work combines chaos and control, making it both brutal and beautiful. As the first chapter of a trilogy, this visceral piece intertwines raw emotional storytelling with avant-garde performance art.
Further informations: www.ctm-festival.de
Cast
With
Eek
Female Wizard
Harrison Hall
Sam Mcgilp
Emme
Biographies
Bringing contemporary performance and dance into immersive art environments, Harrison Hall blurs the lines between digital and live experience. Hall’s work explores the fluidity between virtual and physical worlds, enriching the embodied aspects of mixed-reality performances. After touring globally with top Australian dance companies, he launched Venusian Slip in 2018, a project that opened doors in Naarm's dance scene and led to a series of acclaimed choreographic works.
AKA Eek, Henry Lai-Pyne is a Naarm-based new-media artist whose work spans moving image, live multimedia performance, game design, and broadcasting. His art explores the dynamic interactions between people and screen-driven technology, often challenging viewers to rethink these relationships. Known for his innovative use of »kitbashing«—a creative blend of mixed media, unconventional materials, and found objects—Henry brings unique visual narratives to life in his projects.
Alexander Powers is a defining force in Naarm’s queer dance music scene. Reshaping the city's soundscape for nearly a decade, Powers’ boundary-breaking sets as Female Wizard draw on punk, post-modernist dance, and an ethos of gender inclusivity, blending noise, industrial, IDM, and leftfield techno to create liquidic sonic narratives. As the co-founder of Powertrip—a club night, mix series, and label—Female Wizard has built a community-driven platform for experimental artists and queer visibility, solidifying her role as both artist and advocate within the city’s underground.
Naarm-based media artist Sam Mcgilp collaborates in contemporary performance, creating across film, live installations, and digital spaces. Through his work, Mcgilp redefines how performance art lives and evolves within digital frameworks, opening new avenues for media in contemporary performance. His creative projects often emerge from unique intersections of performance and media.
Born in Argentina, now rooted in Berlin and active across Europe and South America since 2016, Emme’s performances transcend the boundaries of audio and visual artistry, inviting audiences into an otherworldly experience—an aural world which feels like stepping into a shapeshifting dreamscape. Her artistry melds screamed vocals with intricate, dystopian soundscapes, crafting a brutal yet beautiful fusion of emo, noise, and hardcore aesthetics with the elegance of modern dance and avant-garde performance art.
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