Gigsta selected for Nightlife Residency 2020 in Nida

Published on Wednesday, 03 June 2020 07:53
NAC Gigsta. Courtesy of Mailie Viney.1
Gigsta. Photo by Mailie Viney.
 
We are happy to announce DJ, producer, researcher, and writer Noëmie Vermoesen (Gigsta) to participate to Nightlife Residency 2020 in Nida. Although selected already in April by the team members of NAC, I: Project Space and The Neighborhood among the 64 applications received, we have delayed the announcement until now with regards to the uncertain state of affairs of the past months. We are relieved that the current situation will allow Gigsta to come to Nida in August and September 2020. We would like to thank all applicants for their inspiring applications and interest in our programme.
 
Gigsta (lives and works in Berlin) gets as much joy dancing to music as she does reflecting on it – as an academic researcher, DJ, producer, promoter, radio host, and zine maker. Her show on Berlin’s Cashmere Radio, Fictions, gives you a feel for the breadth of her enthusiasm (recent themed shows have covered Bandcamp edits, laughter, the cosmos, and Anne Garreta’s experimental novel Sphinx). Gigsta recently curated a zine with and about women writing on dance music. But it’s in the club where Gigsta’s DJing really shines. She might throw together playful disco with obscure bass-heavy grooves, deftly switch tempo multiple times in a set, bleed in the odd cut-out sample hinting at an oblique theme, or incorporate her own edits. Gigsta is a resident at Berlin-based queer femme and non-binary forward collective Room4Resistance, promotes her own parties called Fictions, and has been invited to perform in many clubs and festivals across Europe. However, her gig schedule is organised at train pace: in 2019, Gigsta decided to stop flying completely.
 
Gigsta currently writes her PhD thesis Techno taken at its word: electronic dance music criticism in Germany, France and the United Kingdom 1986–1999 at Université Rennes 2 in Comparative Literature. 
 
Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/gigsta-de
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/gigstab
 
 
Developed by the Beijing based I: Project Space and The Neighborhood, Nightlife Residency was first launched in 2018 to give artists working on fusion of visual art and nightclub culture time and space to focus on their productions as well as connect to the ever-growing and increasingly idiosyncratic nightclub and electronic music communities in Beijing and China. Bringing this residency format to Nida and the Baltic Region, we want to open up the NAC Residency to a broad scope of practitioners, rhythms, sounds, and visuals and contribute to twisting and broadening definitions of visual culture. 
 
Nightlife Residency 2020 in Nida is embedded within the framework of a series of night events organized by NAC to take place throughout the summer at local Nida bars and clubs. NAC has invited other art collectives, residencies and institutions from mainland Lithuania: Autarkia, DAR, CAC, Kaunas Artists House, Lokomotif, and Rupert to each organize one event, and to collaborate, exchange, gather, and be part of Nida nightlife. Dates and participants will be announced soon.  
 
 
The project is co-funded by Lithuanian Council for Culture, Goethe Institut, and the Thomas Mann Cultural Centre.