xin Performance For those whose hearts sink to the bottom of an early grave at impish thoughts that rave is dead, there’s xin. On their dance floor a psychotropic amphibian coaxes your spine into a better position, your neck tilts back and hips shift and you are nowhere else. xin is every good anthem-style-hole-in-the-wall-heart-warming-destroyer DJ that you hear to save the forest through the trees. xin is a Berlin-based artist, writer and musician. Their debut LP, MELTS INTO LOVE, was released by Subtext in 2019. Described by FACT as ‘a deliriously psychedelic record [that] slithers in and out of the brain with the visceral body horror of a David Cronenberg movie’, MELTS INTO LOVE warps, mangles and strangles rave tropes into something new. The record is released solely via independent platforms, with all proceeds going to Eden Reforestation Projects. Their first solo EP is titled To Shock the Earth and Shake the Sky (2018) and they have contributed to compilations on Genome 6.66mbp, Intruder Alert and AN BA. Website MELTS INTO LOVE by xin Sounding Provocations at Stedelijk Museum Fri 21 Feb 17:45 — 22:30 The Academy opening features a wide variety of multidisciplinary interventions that are iterated throughout the evening, made up of audiovisual stagings, ritualistic performances and new installations, including a number of premieres and commissioned works. Exploring sound, kinetic and audiovisual art, the acts manipulate light, sound and movement while utilising innovative performance tactics to investigate acoustic phenomena, amplification, spatialisation and the resonant properties of the museum. Discover More Artists: Ale Hop Anthea Caddy Cõvco Ex Continent Felicity Mangan All Artists