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BIT x ASTERISK: DENGUE DENGUE DENGUE, Stix Omar

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Tilgjengelighet Accessible with wheelchair No blackout No strobe lights Not seated Stage smoke or scents With English text/speech

In connection with the dance performance The Skin in Between the Fingers by Brazilian Catol Teixeira, which will be shown at Østre on May 9-10, we invite you this Saturday to an extended evening with BIT x ASTERISK.

Teixeira’s intense piece was scheduled for our dance festival Oktoberdans 2024. The performance had to be postponed – but now, it’s finally happening! To celebrate its return, we’re creating a mini festival atmosphere this Saturday, with ASTERISK joining the night for a special club event. Experience the intimate choreography of Catol Teixeira, followed by performances from Stix Omar and DENGUE DENGUE DENGUE. Three artists, each bringing something unique to a night you won’t want to miss. 

 If you are already inside the venue because you have seen the performance, you do not need to buy a separate ticket here. Tickets for BIT x ASTERISK only can also be purchased at the door. 

ASTERISK is a Bergen-based queer interdisciplinary event series and platform founded by artist Kaeto Sweeney in 2020. By celebrating local and international queer artists and performers, it serves as an alternative event/production project aimed at creating safer spaces for queer and trans people within institutions and public spaces. Here, they have the opportunity to showcase interdisciplinary artistic works such as happenings, performances, sound and visual art, film, and everything in between. 

© Asterisk (Kaeto Sweeney)

DENGUE DENGUE DENGUE is a Tropical Bass duo. Behind the masks are Felipe Salmon and Rafael Pereira, two producers, dj’s and graphic designers from Lima, Perú. Their work explores the rhythms from Peru and other parts of the world, recreating them electronically by mixing new and old, analog and digital, to create a unique sound and visuals. Their musical explorations go from psychedelic cumbia to dub, from salsa to footwork, from tribal to techno. Their visual and sound palette continues to grow and add new flavours to this melting pot. 

In 2024, the cutting-edge club troubadours shared their first EP in almost two years, AGITA2, released via Florentino’s Club Romantico. Mixed entirely by themselves for the first time, this five-track odyssey oozes in Latin-adjacent rhythms and drums, pushing the duo into a new sonic realm that once again breaks the rules of the DNGDNGDNG output. 

Felipe and Rafael carefully lure you into their twisted world of electronics and spit you right back – a musical experience equivalent to a forgiving Venus flytrap… a masochist musical experience that will keep you coming back again and again. A unique allure which encapsulates everything from Singeli to Doble Paso Reggaeton, distorted kicks and disjointed breaks with harrowing siren calls and orchestral synth hits – it’s a tripped out, fully unhinged experience which only these pair of lofty sorcerers can conjure up. 

DENGUE DENGUE DENGUE ©Photo: Alejandro Loayza Grisi (Masks by Twee Muizen)

Stix Omar was born in Oslo and studied at the Malmö Art Academy before moving to Berlin to become a pop star. Together with best friend and producer Maximilian Boss, Omar founded the interdisciplinary project EASTER in 2010—a genre-defying band with five released albums that has toured much of the world and created the online soap opera Sadness is an Evil Gas Inside of Me.

Stix Omar works with language and storytelling, with collaborations in music, performance, and film as an important part of their artistic practice. Currently, Stix is developing a 24-episode advent calendar, which will form the foundation for their solo exhibition at BLOKK in Bergen this autumn.

Romantic Comedy is an experimental performance that lives between poetry, comedy, prayer, and song. Stix promises us authentic intimacy and a PowerPoint presentation, with tributes to their friends, truck drivers, and art.

Romantic Comedy – Stix Omar ©Alvilda