DROWNED GOD
On 18 October 2025, Aphotic Signals Intelligence Division (ASID) presents DROWNED GOD at Musikbrauerei, Berlin. A convergence of sound, ritual, and encoded myth, the event assembles a network of artists and collectives from Berlin, London, and beyond.
Set within the ruins of a nineteenth-century factory and wartime bunker, DROWNED GOD becomes both study and spectacle: a research on the politics of sound and the architectures of mass assembly. The “Drowned God” figure, drawn from Nordic and Slavic myth, embodies the loss and return of belief through immersion, a concept recoded here through electronic liturgy and performative excess.
The night extends from the spectral densities of Blood of Aza, Valeria Litvakov, and Sodomland to Palmistry’s fractured pop geometries and Europa’s devotional electronics. On the floor, Zlatik b2b Supchikmode, DRVGジラ b2b Pine*, TRYCE, Franarchy, Global, Comperi, and N1stY craft an escalating system of sound as conspiracy.
““The struggle is eternal; and necessary, so is music.””
Through interventions by Open Secret, Most Dismal Swamp, vvxxii, Paul Ferens, Marcus Nelson, and izecis/mhmk, space becomes an instrument of transmission. DROWNED GOD treats the club as an intelligence field, where myth mutates, belief circulates, and rhythm carries its own form of power.
Fetchish acts as a bridge between disciplines and diasporas. Its projects bring together theatre, performance, and club culture under one light, treating the stage as a collective body. Working closely with artists from the Eastern European diaspora and featured by Dazed, Fetchish constructs fleeting architectures that nurture experimentation and presence across London and beyond.
The Nasties Corporation (Tear City) inhabits the terrain of uncertainty. Its field is one where distinctions between truth and falsehood dissolve, where culture’s obsession with “authenticity” becomes a mirror of its own simulations. It thrives in imitation’s afterglow, revealing the excess within the hyper-real.
Open Secret functions as a nomadic internet cinema, rooted in artists whose practices extend across online terrains. It reflects on how moving images behave in digital ecosystems—how they distort, replicate, and reappear. Each edition is both archive and apparition, surfacing in cities from Tokyo to Milan, Dhaka to London, where the network itself becomes the cinema’s living structure.
Words by DONALD GJOKA
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