Yen Tech
Yen Tech (aka Nick Newlin) is a Korean-American rapper, singer and producer working across a mutating assemblage of formats and materials: from performance pieces, to dystopian rap albums, to self-aware pop idol music videos. Drawing on a mixture of club and pop genres like K-pop and trap with a conceptual, experimental aesthetic, his persona plays on the tropes of manufactured music to create a kind of semi-personal mythology, or world-building.
Fictional narrations and critiques on digital culture, technological-paranoia, and post-human themes are often delivered under the guise of digestible genre studies. This meta-fiction approach to performance and music creates a continuously shifting output but one where Yen Tech, as an avatar, always remains the central character. Following the release of his debut album Mobis on Shanghai’s SVBKVLT in 2016, Newlin is working on a sophomore, which he describes as a large-scale music and multimedia project.
E-Work. Transcending Realities
Catnapp, Yen Tech, bod [包家巷], Hyph11E, umru, Auco,
and film program co-curated by Lou Drago
Oct. 26, 11pm
Trauma Bau und Kino
Tickets, Facebook
Participants
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Viviana Abelson
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Monira Al Qadiri
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Alpha Maid
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manuel arturo abreu
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Auco
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bod 包家巷
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Elvin Brandhi
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Catnapp
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CURL
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Akinola Davies Jr.
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Debby Friday
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Lou Drago
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Ruth Angel Edwards
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Freeka Tet
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Roxman Gatt
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Margaret Haines
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Laurel Halo
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Sarah M. Harrison
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HellFun (Josefin Arnell & Max Göran)
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shawne michaelain holloway
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Kerstin Honeit
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Hyph11E
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KayaKata
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Vika Kirchenbauer
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Julian-Jakob Kneer
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Rainer Kohlberger
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Steph Kretowicz
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Göksu Kunak & Laure M. Hiendl
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Tarek Lakhrissi
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Francesca Landi
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Bianca Ludewig
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Malibu
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James Massiah
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Magdalena Mitterhofer
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mobilegirl
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Shaun Motsi
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Claudia Pages
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Qualiatik
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James Richards
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Michele Rizzo
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Jen Rosenblit
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Erica Scourti
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Isabel de Sena
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Sky Deep
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Ms. Carrie Stacks
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umru
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Laura Welker & Ehsan Morshed Sefat
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Wanda Vrasti
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Geo Wyeth
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Yen Tech
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x/o