bela, Theresa Baumgartner and Lukas Feigelfeld present Noise and Cries (굉음과 울음)

Berlin-based South Korean artist bela will present a special performance of their recently-released Subtext/Unsound album 'Noise and Cries 굉​음​과 울음' at this year's Unsound Kraków, in collaboration with celebrated German installation artist Theresa Baumgartner and Austrian director and writer Lukas Feigelfeld. The album itself proposes a new form of South Korean expression, interlacing blood-curdling death metal growls with repurposed traditional rhythms and the heady, cybernetic maximalism of queer club music. It's an album about death, but bela doesn't use the theme to wallow in self pity, instead finding hope in the concept of rebirth.

Baumgartner, best known for her work with artists such as Bendik Giske, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Marcel Weber, Jlin and 'Stranger Things' composers Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein, will bring her idiosyncratic touch to bela's visceral live performance, infusing their typically spartan lighting with new energy. And Feigelfeld, who worked on Jonathan Glazer's 'Zone of Interest', directed 2017's psychedelic folk horror cult breakout 'Hagazussa', and crafted the chilling promo for bela's 'The Sage', will provide additional visuals.