Performance Festival VxXXX Freitag, 03.04.2026 19-24 Uhr

Performance Festival VxXXX
Freitag, 03.04.2026 19-24 Uhr

Danny Banany
Soma Boronkay
Chardonnay Emerald
Blessless Mahoney
Sweætshops® - IMPERSON 
+ Special Guest
hosted by Stefan Mildenberger

hinterconti
Balduinstraße 24
20359 Hamburg

Danny Banany (any pronouns, respectfully) is a performer, poet, timeless wizard and a secret visual artist who likes to link and layer. Their practice is an unpredictable mess until it isn’t. The work encompasses neurological filtering of realities, reflecting on queerness in perception, layering of beliefs and facts and codes of communication. Inspired and joined by the sensitive and poetic soundscopes of multifaceted artist POZSI B. KOLOR Danny brings pattern layering and filtering onto several dimensions to address the mechanics of reality clashes, synchronicity, memetic powers and challenges in digital era global erosion and deconstruction of norms and ethics.

Soma Boronkay was born in Hungary and studied dramaturgy and theater studies in Budapest. His academic work has specialized in the field of documentary theater.
For several years, Soma Boronkay has consistently worked as a dramaturg and assistant director at the Proton Theatre in Budapest. He has collaborated with Kornél Mundruczó on highly regarded international co-productions, such as Imitation of Life (2016, Wiener Festwochen), as well as music theater projects like The Raft of the Medusa (Music: Hans Werner Henze; Ruhrtriennale 2018), Evolution (Ruhrtriennale 2019), and theater productions like Traumland (Theater Luzern 2018), Pieces of a Woman (TR Warszawa 2018), and Liliom (Thalia Theater Hamburg 2019).

Chardonnay Emerald (she/her/they/them) Playing instruments has historically carried different connotations for women and girls. In the West,
instruments like the harp or flute have long been seen as “feminine”- meant to keep girls
decorative, restrained, and still. Meanwhile, instruments that require force or full-body movement
like drums, guitars, or trumpets remain coded as masculine.
Then comes the theremin. Invented in 1920 by Lev Termen, it's too weird to be put in a box and it
resists gender entirely. Though being "a stick" it’s not phallic, not quite tactile, not easily
categorized. It’s hysterical, sensual, and absurd - and that’s why I love it. You don’t touch it, but get
close enough and it wails. It deliriously shrieks as you flirt with contact. Yes there's a way to play it
"right", however there's absolutely no way to do it wrong - the Theremin
doesn’t ask you to behave, it dares you to misbehave.
Playing music is never just about sound. It’s about performance, risk, expression. To play an
instrument with abandon - slutty, silly, throwing-your-whole-body-in-it, unserious, too-much - is
to break rules that never served us.

Blessless Mahoney is a philosopher, cultural studies scholar, speleologist, and drag impersonator. She lives and works in Hamburg, reads extensively, and writes.
Since 1990, she has created numerous cabaret productions and curated exhibitions and cultural events. Blessless is co-host of the radio program “Zwei Stimmen im Fummel” and, together with her stage partner Didine van der Platenvlotbrug, has been giving action lectures at universities and in museums since 1994.
Next radio broadcast: *Zwei Stimmen im Fummel*
Mon, March 30, 2026 (8–10 pm)
FSK Radio: Frequencies: 93 MHz (antenna), 101.4 MHz (cable) in Hamburg
Livestream: [http://www.fsk-hh.org/livestream](http://www.fsk-hh.org/livestream)

Sweætshops® presents IMPERSON, a live abstraction of the planet’s most impersonated person, through the lens of the Egyptian Memphite afterlife system of iconisation. exploring supernormal stimulus, the veneration of problematic men, cultural appropriation and primordial loneliness. Sweætshops® (sweXtshops) is a multi-personality enterprise from the birthplace of the industrial revolution. Their practice is dedicated to revealing the sweetshops/sweatshops yin-yang of worldwide societal inequality. Operating primarily through performance initiatives, audiovisual production, and participatory conceptual research via multiple personas. Sweætshops® ethos is rooted in repurposing the 24/7 chaos and noise of pop culture media, mass-produced items and digital trends through the bloody bodily conveyor line. As above, so below: universally familiar “low-brow” symbols are repurposed into new magical frameworks to reveal “high-concepts”.

Mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg