An extraterrestrial art gathering and an experimental strange-tundra opera, visual art show, interpretive dance performance with 15+ local artists as participants.

Project Collaborators: Maxine Flasher-Duzgunes, Rosie Dater-Merton, Yuqi Sun, Em Hansen, Jubilee, Kelsie Jones, Zabby Starchaser, John Potter, The Continental Club Oakland


CATACOMBS IV: An Extraterrestrial Art Gathering

An extraterrestrial art gathering & strange-tundra opera.

Catacombs III: Experimental Tundric Ice Opera
Saturday, Jan 20
7:00pm – 11:00pm PT

It was very likely the most bizarre experience attendees had all year.

Guests stepped into an alien temple surrounded by chunks of ice, a reflective tin foil guitarist, ice dance music DJs, extraterrestrial art, and a short, experimental, interpretive modern dance opera.

The entire venue was transformed into an immersive ice cave installation.

Attendees arrived dressed as plausibly theoretical aliens to experience space templic paintings, chunk ice sculptures, and otherworldly soundscape music.

Made by artists for artists, Catacombs was a cold dip into the tundric, extraterrestrial world of Nenom—a frozen, iceic planet and the setting for Anethemas, a strange-tundra opera and large-scale otherworldly art piece created by Xxhe. At Catacombs, guests were showered in the sounds of Anethemas, surrounded by ethereal dance, auroric light creatures, frozen sculptures, and trancing wind art. Garb was a key part of the experience—and guests found out why.

Decentered Arts was a Key Collaborator of this event.


Catacombs III: Experimental Tundric Ice Opera

Frozen divas, alien dreamers, and tundric sound wizards gathered in an ice cave—Catacombs was Nenom's glittering extraterrestrial opera rave.

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