NZIRIA works in the self-described genre of »hard neomelodic,« a hybridisation of the Neapoletan neomelodic song and hardcore gabber influences. Her debut album XXYBRID came out in summer 2022 on Gabber Eleganza's Never Sleep. As a non-binary artist, Nziria attempts to bring a different perspective to Neapoletan song by metamorphosing heteronormative and discriminative narratives of neomelodic into new stories of fluid identities, queer love, and hybridisation between northern and southern Italian cultures.
For their CTM performance they interacted in a tableaux vivant of multiple performers, under the direction of visual artist Bianca Peruzzi, who has also prepared a special light environment of lasers, projectors, and haze. Two Berlin-based dancers joined the performance thanks to a short residency: Franka Marlene Foth contributed choreography to the piece, and was joined on stage by fellow dancer Janan Laubscher.
The project premiered during CTM Festival 2023 at HAU Hebbel am Ufer.