After Party sloganı: “Zor zamanlar çılgın dansları gerektirir” – Alice Walker

Dans pistimiz özgürlük istiyor. Özellikle içinde yaşadığımız bu zamanlarda, bu talep hayatımızın her alanında yankı bulmalıdır. Afrika diasporasının birçok geleneğinde müzik ve dans, sadece keder ve neşe için değil, aynı zamanda düşünmek, hayal kurmak ve özgürlüğe giden yolu bulmak için de kullandığımız araçlardır.

Sizi, performanslarımızla özgürlük taleplerimizi yineleyeceğimiz ve ortak bir gelecek hayal edeceğimiz bu akşamı bizimle geçirmeye davet ediyoruz. Bu akşam DJ Tall, Gawdesque, YIELU, MFATICC, peeace. ve MZTAY sahne alacak ve her biri farklı şekillerde gerekli özgürlük alanlarını yaratacak. Bu akşam QTBIPOC'a odaklanıyor, ancak diğerlerini de bu alana saygıyla katılmaya davet ediyoruz.

SKICA – Slovenya Kültür Bilgi Merkezi | Slovenya Cumhuriyeti'nin Avusturya Cumhuriyeti Büyükelçiliği ile işbirliği içinde

Credits

Curator: Araba Evelyn Johnston-Arthur

Artists: New Choir, Soñ Gweha aka SOÑXSEED, Ghostpoet, Christian Guerematchi, Katia Ledoux, Njideka Iroh

Afterparty: DJ Tall, peeace., Gawdesque, YIELU, MFATICC, MZTAY, more TBA

Artists

Katia Ledoux

Katia Ledoux is currently one of the opera world's most quickly rising stars. Her captivating dramatic presence, passion for storytelling and warm voice boldly moves boundaries and have earned her acclaim as a key figure for the future of classical music.

Ghostpoet

Dr. Obaro Ejimiwe aka Ghostpoet, is a prominent British artist celebrated for his unique blend of alternative hip-hop, electronica, and indie rock.

His Nigerian and Dominican heritage enriches his distinctive artistic voice, which has earned notable acclaim, including  Mercury Prize nomination for his debut album, Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam (2011). 

Ghostpoet’s discography includes five acclaimed albums, reflecting his growth as an artist through genre-blending and deep explorations of urban isolation, existential angst, and the human condition. In 2020, he expanded into visual arts, exploring installation, photography, and sound art, enriching his creative expression. 

His latest EP, Am I The Change I Wish To See? (2024), continues his tradition of innovation, addressing themes of self-reflection and societal change. With two Mercury Prize nominations and a dynamic presence in music and visual arts, Ghostpoet remains a significant and evolving cultural force.

New Choir

Defying convention and reimagining tradition, New Choir is an international ensemble that queers and reinterprets the very fabric of choral music — weaving sonic lineages from folk traditions to sacral music, from early polyphony to experimental graphic scores. Whether singing a cappella or merging our voices with live electronic soundscapes, we explore the full spectrum of sonic possibility.

For us, singing is more than performance — it is resistance, reclamation, and devotion. We seek out unexpected spaces to sing in — reclaiming the choir’s original communal power: rooted in the soil, the body, and the breath.

Founded in 2023 under the artistic direction of Pavel Naydenov (Bulgaria), New Choir has quickly found resonance across borders, taking part in international festivals and collaborative projects. We’ve performed alongside and within initiatives hosted by MUSMIG, Volkskundemuseum Wien, Museum Angewandte Kunst, WUK Performing Arts, Soho Studio, Kunst Forum Austria, Shift, and others.

Join us — as we reimagine what a choir can be:
a collective voice for memory, movement, and transformation.

Soñ Gweha aka SOÑXSEED

Soñ Gweha is a transdisciplinary artist based between the Paris region and Vienna, Austria, where they pursue a PhD in Practice. Their work traverses utopian, erotic, and spiritual imaginaries, unfolding through music, analog DJing, video, performance, installation, and collective practices. Rooted in Cameroonian and Afro-diasporic heritage, afrofuturism, and political movements, they explore Black, Queer, and visionary mythologies, weaving connections between the visible and invisible, human and non-human. Through immersive creations, Soñ Gweha invites alternative temporalities of intimacy and joy, offering spaces where grief, comfort, and celebration intertwine in a continuous dance.

Afterparty

peeace.

peeace. is a second generation DJ and cultural worker in Richmond, VA with a love for all things bass heavy and dance oriented. They enjoy genre hopping and creating immersive sets that take listeners through sounds of the black American diaspora including juke, jersey, house, bounce, rap and much more. peeace. is the creator of @hfgt.exe, a black underground platform that creates space for black femme, black queer, and black alternative people in the Richmond area. peeace. uses @hfgt.exe as a platform for independent black creatives, DJs and artists to share their work in their art in rooms that are built for them to instigate joy and communal creative exploration.

Gawdesque

The artist name "Gawdesque" honours the power of the creative spirit - the god-esque in us - and serves as a personal affirmation of said spirit.

They celebrate their heritage and its global branches through the music they play; West and South African genres and those of its diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean to create an eclectic blend of sounds to lift community spirit, lubricate the spinal joints, let the calories burn and ask for consent to make the back bend. 

Notable places they've deejayed at include Transdimensional 2025, Gatafiera's "Sudaca Ataca" album release party, Eddy Festival 2024 and 4lthangrund's "The Great Relief" at Wiener Festwochen.

DJ Tall

DJ Tall is the soca DJ of the schwarzenfreude collective, aiming to bring immaculate Caribbean vibes to every party. From slow beats for a 2-step, to up-tempo bangers for a wuck-up, the vibrant and playful music of his repertoire is sure to loosen hips and get the crowd bumping. If you want to party---leaving it all on the dancefloor---then good. So does he.  

YIELU

YIELU is a singer, songwriter, and poet exploring the reclamation of self and power. 

MZTAY

MZTAY is a Vienna-based DJ and cultural worker originally from Atlanta, Georgia, looking to bring out feelings of nostalgia, joyy, reflection, and of course the need to move. They play with many genres, including alternative r&b, house, hip-hop, jazz, bounce, among others. Their goal is to always have you bring a new song home with you. 

MFATICC

MFATICC explores herself through music, weaving together sounds, with Reggae and Dancehall being the cornerstone of her musical journey. Since 2022, she aims to participate in creating spaces where people of the global majority can feel the feels in peace.