Destabilise, while provoking a reflection, his path defies the hierarchies of art, turning each piece into a therapeutic ground where the audience cannot escape their own shadow.

“We are always late,” the artist says, suggesting that being contemporary means relating to our timeline rather than simply chasing modernity. In their work, presence and invisibility intertwine, revealing that a space “is never empty” and that what it is hidden, what seems absent often speaks the loudest.

For three days, Funkhaus was no longer Berlin, no longer a building: it became a threshold. You didn’t enter to “see a festival”, you entered to surrender to a rite. From the very first moment I felt that sound was not accompaniment but invisible architecture: living matter shaping body and perception, carving and building, unravelling and reconnecting.

Bande à Part is an ecosystem of raw sound, of strings stretched to the point of breaking, vocals bent and twisted into cries carved from an aching body. Teething, their latest release, is a punk rock-inflected coming-of-age ballad and the first glimpse of the upcoming EP Grit. The song will premiere on the occasion of a the single release show at The Old Blue Last on October 2nd. In this interview, we trace the genealogy of the track and music video together with writer, poet and musician Sabina Hellstrom.