Unique Vicky Langan for Arts Centre show

Galway-born, Cork-based performer and curator Vicky Langan is coming to Galway Arts Centre on Saturday, May 19 for an event that will combine live performance and a film screening and will close with a DJ set by Black Sun DJs.

This show will give Galway audiences a rare, concentrated one-night blast of the intensity that has made her a force to be reckoned with in Cork.

Judas Steer will feature Langan as performer, filmmaker and curator. Her solo performance project, Wölflinge, uses flesh, fluid and self-built instruments to envelop audiences in an aura of dark intimacy.

In opening herself emotionally, she creates warm yet discomforting rituals that at once embrace the viewers and remain resolutely private. Not only will Langan be performing, but she will also present an exhibition of recreations, relics and leavings of past performances. 

In partnership with experimental filmmaker Maximilian Le Cain, Langan has created a series of films that expand the scope of her performance activities. Le Cain’s distinctively jarring, disruptive visual rhythms have proved a fitting match to her troubling sensibility. Four Langan/Le Cain films will be screened, including the premiere of a brand new work.

Langan is also the woman behind Black Sun, Cork’s legendary weirdo/outer limits music event which she founded in 2009 and has curated ever since. Her DJ set, which will close the Galway Arts Centre evening, will give a powerful taste of the sort of strange sounds that have earned Black Sun its international reputation.