CTM x ICA Night III

06th Sep 2025 06th Sep 2025 19:30 open end

aya x MFO

00:00

VMO Violent Magic Orchestra

00:00

Institute of Contemporary ArtsTickets 25 £

Relentless Intimacy and Death Rave Delirium.

Photo by Niclas Weber
Photo by Dee Iskrzynska
Photo by Dee Iskrzynska

The final night of CTM x ICA 2025 beckons you with crook’d finger into an audiovisual labyrinth of personal narrative and jagged abstraction, each pulse of light slicing through shadow before descending into an abyssal dance ritual where metal’s feral fury collides with unholy beats.

British producer aya collaborates with German light artist MFO to present an audiovisual performance interweaving nerved confessional with »rave got dark.« Drawing from her new Hyperdub album »hexed!«, aya's performance features autobiographical texts set to clattering beats and growling basslines, complemented by MFO's acclaimed lighting designs.

 

  • hexed!, by aya

  • hexed!, by aya

Japanese collective Violent Magic Orchestra (VMO) fuses howling black metal, techno, and visual art to create an intense and abyssal dance experience. Their latest work on Gabber Eleganza's Never Sleep, »DEATH RAVE« doubles down on dance mayhem, incorporating all the good stuff: claustrophobic guitars, throat-annihilating screams, frantic synth stabs and machine beats, pushing towards extra-dimensional hardcore and gabber—a unique alchemical space where the language of metal is transmutated into rave. Get ready to have your body and mind thrashed.

This event is the final of three nights at Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London, supported by the Goethe-Institut London. The programme will feature artists mutating folk traditions into the present, deep-diving into the materiality of electronic sound, and manifesting offbeat connections through disjointed narratives and madcap performance. This third collaboration between CTM x ICA again aims to immerse visitors into the intersections between music, visuals, and performance, highlighting both organisations’ longtime commitment to pushing artistic dialogues across forms and practices.

aya x MFO features visuals by Lucy Beech with Krzysztof Bagiński. Poetry written and performed by Nadia Marcus. 

CTM x ICA is supported by the Goethe-Institut London.