De Brujas Y Fantasmas

De Brujas y Fantasmas' was presented at the 61st Venice Biennale opening, during the program curated and produced by Kuboraum WE TRAVEL TO KNOW OUR OWN GEOGRAPHY, and is set to be performed at Berlin's Hamburger Bahnhof during Berlin Art Week on September 11th. And Ziúr's musical accompaniment shadows the esoteric motion of del Valle's highly researched meditations, lamentations and celebrations. On 'La Llorona De Noche', she guides onlookers towards the negative space, filling the gaps between her distorted kick drums with eerie spirit traces. Slow and intentional, the track opens up to include ritualistic chimes and animalistic, growling synth drones that lead directly into the noisy, incantation 'Luna Negra', six minutes of freeform percussion and serrated oscillations powerful enough to wake the dead. Wigman's guiding hand is most evident on ‘Hexentanz’, when Ziúr's groaning synthesizers fall into line with a jerking, unstable rhythm that, a century after the original piece was debuted, speaks to a chaotic contemporary world where womens' roles are still misunderstood. And del Valle's voice finally emerges on 'Hueso De Humo', sewn into Ziúr's powerful tapestry of pulsing glitches and billowing drones.