This project launches with its first event in collaboration with Glasgow record-label blush, to celebrate the release of the forthcoming edition, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘥𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘭, by Natalia Panzer.

The evening brings together two artists working across literature, music and performance. Natalia Panzer is primarily a writer, but her practice extends across radio, DIY publishing and spoken word.

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘥𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘭 is Natalia’s first published solo work – wide in both reference and form. Originally composed as a score for a live set in Glasgow, the work was rerecorded and will be released as a tape and publication, in collaboration with blush and Lunchtime Gallery.

Operating somewhere between an album, an audiobook, and the soundtrack to an imagined film, it calls to the playful, quietly ecstatic spoken word of Robert Ashley and the freeform collaged voice of Paddy McAloon’s timeless 𝘐 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘸𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘻.

Panzer’s narration spirals through themes of light, movement and fabric, colour, water and dance – a response to three works: a ballet by William Forsythe, a fashion presentation by Carol Christian Poell, and a documentary on Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake.

Constructed around an elusive mosaic of samples, Panzer searches for the absolute in cascading, dreamy prose. Her narration moves as a guiding presence, fracturing into the freedom of possibility, in a dance of chance, repetition, and change.

Natalia will perform the work live, joined by Nadia Marcus for additional contextual poetry readings. Nadia is a poet, designer, DJ and co-editor of TABLOID Press.

The event takes place at Salon Am Moritzplatz, Berlin, a short walk from Moritzplatz U.

Wednesday, 20 May, 7pm

Suggested donation upon entry 7-10eur.

The edition will be available to buy at the event.

Art: @w______ren & @elysiatuohy