From Boughs To Shade, From Shade To Bliss, From Bliss to Wrath is an experimental, innovative and intense visual art, performance, and music modular initiative that aims to advance hybrid artistic experimentation in music and performance and to create a space for an intimate and powerful exploration of internal landscapes.
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Drawn from Ibn ‘Arabi’s The Universal Tree and The Four Birds, the title sets the frame and highlights the fundamental character of the show: variations that ripple through sound and vision, a play of echoes and ambiguities, dominance and surrendering, harmony and dissonance, tension and release. The work lingers on how things cross into each other, with nothing standing apart, meanings turning inside out, worlds leaning into each other, everything bound in movement and exchange.
Polina Fradkina is an internationally acclaimed concert pianist based in Copenhagen. Her practice is rooted in academy as much as experimentation. Exemplary is her project In Temporalis, conducted over decades in collaboration with Cuban percussionist Gonzalez. She is also an expert in music psychology, and works extensively in the field, conducting concerts and lectures on the themes of emotions and their reflection in the musical.
Academeia is a Greek/Swedish music duo and music label based between Berlin and Stockholm. Their practice is rooted in electronic experimentation in ambient and techno. Since their establishment in October 2021, Academeia has organized more than 40 shows between Denmark, Greece, South Korea, Norway, Sweden and Germany and released two LPs, Transparent World and Subjugated, good representations of the label’s unique edge across genres.
Brian Veis is a Danish painter and a mathematician based in Aarhus. Brian has dealt with aesthetic philosophy and phenomenology at Aarhus University. Themes from these branches of philosophy often provide the theoretical background for his works, where he examines the common features of subjective aesthetic experiences. His mathematics background shows both in an analytical approach and in the serial and processual dimensions of his works—visible in repetition, seriality, and semi-abstraction.
Together we shaped a piece that reimagines works by Mussorgsky, Drukh, and Bach. Moving through crescendos, dissonances, and shifting dialogues, piano, synthesizer, and drum machine trade presence and weight, sometimes in balance, sometimes in rupture.
The paintings are set in motion through light, live visuals, and performance. The performative dimension came in with turning, inverting, and reorienting the paintings, making them unstable surfaces, questioning perception, at the edge of figuration and abstraction. At KUNE Festival, our debut show, Spanish VJ and scenographer Laura Iturralde animated the works—altering representation and asking what it means to see, how easily a view can shift, and how much of vision is constructed.
With artists positioned in the center and the audience freely moving around, the vision is to shift the traditional hierarchy—placing artists and audience on the same level and opening the door to a more empathic connection. The space is designed for comfort, with dim lights and soft flooring, encouraging presence and slowness.
This spatial design is informed by my ongoing curatorial research into ritual and art.
Performed at
KUNE Fesitval 2025
*The performance is conceived of as modular and site specific, each time adapting to the context and establishing local artistic collaborations.