Performance Artists

Some words about the performance program

After presenting the site-specific debut performance “TU BE” in 2020  Dan Su continues a fruitful relationship with Gaswerksiedlung by curating the Art Days performance program, filled with site-responsive pieces catering to the location’s industrial and historical symbolism using actual remnants of today.


Gaswerksiedlung Art Days 2023 performance program features spirited africadelic dance performances of Exocéexiste, Afro-Trans Diary by pole dancer Kalil Bat, Butoh performance by Megan Brailey, long-durational experimental dance performance by Melika Akbari aka likabari, queer performance  “aus(w)ringen” by Judith Konitzer and Lav Ender as well as an experimental and sound performance by su dance110 amongst others.

  • Exocé Existe

    Natisa Exocé Kasongo aka Exocé Existe is a multidisciplinary Afrocentric Artist: Artistic performer, dancer, and visual artist.
    His artistic universe is centred on Afro-futurism, going back to the African origins linking ancestry and modernity in the diasporas.
    Whether in live performances, music videos or experimental/conceptual works, his experimental storytelling brings new layers of meaning to the projects in which he intervenes. He’s applied his own visual universe and alphabet of movements to numerous collaborations with musicians (Patrice, Swift Guad, Katerinha, Bloomfeld, Sevdaliza, Kamaal Williams, Kelvyn Colt), short movies ("LAMUKA" with French artistic director Camille Roy), fashion modelling (Jean Paul Gautier, Nike), dance shows and companies.
    In Berlin, he is part of the event Culture Supply and a member of Out Of Time Embassy/Sonic Interventions.

  • Judith Konitzer and Lav Ender

    In the performance Judith Konitzer and Lav Ender explore the potential of reshifting energy, taking up space and collectively work on reinforcing desire through distance. Reparation can be an act of pleasure. Just as deconstruction can be an act of liberation. The artists embrace the possibility of failure and the potential of disrupting situations. From codependency to interdependency - everything is connected eventually.

  • Kalil Bat

    With his 'Afro-Trans Diary', Kalil Bat invites the audience into the complexity of being a character of multitudes. The layered mediums generate an availability for sensations and feelings, largely enhanced by the intimate nature of the piece. Kalil's generosity in movements, voice and musicality allow a glimpse into his personal interpretation of what 'being at the intersectionality' means.

  • Megan Brailey

    Megan Brailey is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary performance artist, movement practitioner, researcher, and writer. Brailey’s work spans butoh theatre-dance, performance and installation art, immersive theatre, spoken word poetry and photography. They investigate the embodiment of cultural histories, gender and class politics, philosophy, and psycho-somatics. Their work is grounded in political and philosophical understandings of the world and is usually tethered to a strong art historical dialogue.

  • likabari

    ‘’HAP - from space to space” is a long durational, experimental site-responsive performance, where the body is a reflective display, relatively in relation to other occurrences in proportion. likabari aka Melika Akbari portrays the unfolding of a process through time on a landscape of audio-visual references. Where and when the promise of the unknown lies and ‘’dealing with the unpredictable’’ comes into play. A body is a moving sculpture reading the space, stating stages and staging different states while focusing on the sense of becoming.
    The outcome is space-event bound.
    ”from space to spacefrom space to spacefrom space to space”

  • su dance110

    su dance110, music alias of Dan Su, is a transdisciplinary artist, composer, musician and choreographer who work with sound and movement through experiments, compositions, conceptual improvisations, performances, experimental music, contemporary dance, installations, and media art. su dance110’s sound performance is motivated by interactive objects, voice and body movement. Spontaneously challenging the specific sites, situations and unplanned narratives, they seek the fine marriage of concept and expression.