Steven Warwick, also known under the moniker Heatsick, contributes ’There Will Be’. Combining a syncopated hi-hat with heavily distorted vocals, he delivers an Americana cowboy dance medley – a meandering, surreal snippet that ends with a triumphant blast of cinematic noise. During the performance, Warwick appeared onstage as various personas, changing costumes and characters to narrate an epic poem depicting the nightmare of representation, speech acts, drag, neoliteral, bureaucratic interventions into rising societal and global threats
About Steven Warwick
Steven Warwick is a British artist, musician and writer residing in Berlin. His practice includes durational performance installations, plays and films using the construction of situations and language. He also makes music under his own name, and previously as Heatsick – his previous record, titled “MOI”, is out on PAN. He has performed music at Berghain, Issue Project Room, Trouw Amsterdam, Unsound Krakow, London Contemporary Music Festival, Mutek Mexico, Novas Frequencias Brazil, Warwick has exhibited work at Schinkel Pavilion, ICA London, SMK Copenhagen, the Modern Institute Glasgow, Cleopatras NYC, Balice Hertling NYC, Kinderhook; Caracas, and was artist in residence at Villa Aurora, Los Angeles 2015. His writing has appeared in Texte Zur Kunst, Urbanomic, Art Forum and Electronic Beats and has co-authored a book released on Primary Information.
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