Anna Lucia is a Berlin-based musician and artist who works at the intersection of music, performance and visual arts. Centered around a magnetic vocal delivery, she fuses elements of poetry, film-score and drone into ecstatic pop dirges. Through her lyrics she channels characters; playing with the audience’s perspectives and expectations using a method of alternative storytelling, which dips anachronistically in and out of different histories, both imagined and real. Besides performing solo, Anna Lucia is the singer and front woman of the band Anchoress.instagram.com/aanna.luciaa [
Julia Witas is a Berlin based multidisciplinary artist, vocalist and performing musician. Through photography, film, installation and sound, she explores topics such as grief, death, nature, symbolism and dream experiences. With an intuitive and experimental approach, she utilizes dynamic vocals, field recordings and multi-instrumental, atmospheric soundscapes to create sonic compositions that fluctuate between devouring, dark distortion and floating, poetic fragility.instagram.com/juliavvitas [
Urška Preis, aka rouge-ah, is a composer, harpist, visual artist, and writer. Under the moniker rouge-ah they explore sound, and are currently researching dreams, nightmares and other sleep disruptions. Their main instruments are acoustic and electric harp, with a tendency of extracting uncharacteristic sounds from them. Since relocating to Berlin in spring 2022, rouge-ah has become a regular at some of the edgiest live music venues in the city, carrying their electric harp and effects pedals everywhere, from smoky underground basements to cozy Neukölln record shops to Berghain Kantine, always bringing fresh and unexpected sounds, from layers of delicate notes to roars of feedback and distortion that seem to conceal an orchestra or a choir in full flow.instagram.com/rouge.ah [
About Above Nothing
The red chamber of Volksbühne Berlin provides space for Julia Witas, rouge-ah and Anna Lucia to birth the debut of their new performance series Above Nothing.The series creates a landscape for artists and musicians that construct their works within the transformative and sentimental realms. Rooted in an experimental approach to music, Above Nothing navigates the sacred, the profane and everything in between by creating narratives through sound, poetry and visual arts. Performance evenings feature an array of cross-disciplinary works in the spheres of drone, dark ambient, experimental pop, noise and spoken word.