Veslemøy Rustad Holseter

// I can be the light of yr lyfe__ Thankyou to bbs @malajunta.official @messberlin & @lanoche.party for inviting me to be part of the family, develop & execute visual profiles & light designs throughout this yr 🩸🐍🌿 Working with queer collectives who hold values I align with is such a blessing + the music is fire (I Shazam shamelessly 👼🏻) & I am truly grateful to have been a part of & being able to say guudbye to iconic venues such as @watergate.club.official now closing after 22 yrs in the Berlin club scene. Mala 6 yr anniversary + Mala Haunted was nothing short of legendary. Teaching my ‘Psychology of light - Ground basics’ Workshop perhaps for the final time in Germany tomorrow @ 90mil - Check @90milartschool for booking Find me inn Ohm this weekend for the last @messberlin of tha yr 💚🩸 Picture by darling @nayme_h 🐍 In DYKON1C stage design by @insensitivefatherfigure @ Mala Haunted earlier this yr 🐍

⚔️⛓️- New NFT Collab between Visual Artist Harriet Blend & Vocalist & Producer Grinderteeth live for purchase available at @weareguzzu ⛓️⚔️🌋🔥 ‘The Beloved, Possessed, Damned, Blessed is an audio-visual meditation on power and defiance, a stubborn refusal to back down in the face of violence’. Visual by @harriet.blend Sound & vocals @grinderteeth 💚🐍 Additional creative vocal workshop on ‘queering the voice’ with Grinderteeth -

// __Neon Snake __🩸🐍 A spatial sound - light & movement collaboration piece - on life, death, rebirth, regeneration & duality, domination & submission, vulnerability & strength, fluidity in the spine & water in your body & being__ Combining organic material of live seaweed with synthetic fluid in a form of liquid latex, the demonization of the image of the snake, queer & female sexuality in the West & Christianity as core themes. Choreography, dance & performance__Rosie Terry Toogood @rosietaz Light & sound design // Live vocals & sound improvisations + live operation of 2x softwares for lights__Veslemøy Rustad Holseter @grinderteeth Creative concept & development // Both above__ Production // Thank you to our @thekazimier @invisiblewindfactory crew Live camera performance // Caroline Video support // Venya Sorry that we couldn’t leave the studio in the production week to see anybody, yet operating 3 softwares at the same time (actually 4 counting MaxMsp 🫠) + live improvising with vox & my sound design was wild, yet this piece has been one of the most fulfilling experiences of my life Comes with workshops on the psychology of light, ground basics // live improvisation through queering the voice, Pilates + caring for your spine & body through movement ( First 2 led by Veslemøy // Last two by Rosie ), on request. Combination possible__

🌹🐍🐚Kins in NY, do not miss the MIDNIGHT GLORY of the TRUTH UNABRIDGED organized by our favourite khati @djharam ! Enthralled to share that tomorrow at @nowadaysnyc , you can support @khartoum_aid_kitchen   , @olivegroveinitiative   , @havenforartists , @rugirugz  and our fundraising efforts by attending and buying select prints made by yours truly. 🐍🐍🐍more about MIDNIGHT GLORY: “DARLINGS FROM ACROSS THE UNDERGROUND RAP SCENE, NYC & JERSEY CLUB ICONS, AND DIASPORIC NIGHTLIFE BADDIES JOIN FORCES ON THE NOWADAYS DANCEFLOOR FOR A HONORABLE CAUSE — SOLIDARITY FUNDRAISING FOR SUDAN, LEBANON, AND PALESTINE. COME PREPARED FOR POETIC URGENCY IN LIVE PERFORMANCES, IMPROVISED COLLABORATIVE SETS, UNIQUE MERCHANDISE MADE JUST FOR THIS EVENT, AND TRANCE-INDUCING RHYTHMS TO BREAK YOUR BACK WELL PAST MIDNIGHT. TOGETHER WE ARE MORE THAN THE SUM OF OUR PARTS. LEAVE CHANGED BY THE GLORIOUSNESS OF TRUTH UNABRIDGED.” The model of our campaign is simple. In collaboration with Aatma and in response to similar requests from other community members, we’ve decided to raise funds by selling a selection of prints from the hundreds of posters that Aatma has been writing and designing in support of collective liberation. More info on our fundraising goals for the night in the slides. If you’d like to contribute without purchasing a print, you are, of course, more than welcome! We also believe that offering museum-grade fine art prints at an affordable sliding scale is a great way to challenge the banality and extractivism of the art economy. If you would like to pre-order a print and support online, just DM and we will share the catalogue! You can also support our fundraising efforts without ordering prints by donating freely any time to [email protected] through PayPal. To discuss collabs or further fundraising ideas, you’re welcomed to email [email protected] with subject line ‘Fundraising collaborations’ ! A million thanks for @shoestringnyc printing cooperative for supporting our campaign at the UEG! It means the world to work with you all in a cooperative economy even when in the belly of the beast 💚🫀💜✌🏽

// Returning to @ctmfestival this week with radio show, workshop + live show @radialsystem_berlin this weekend / range of collabs & features from @tekhne_collab @refugeworldwide @shapeplatform @synthtati @le_n_ek Also sharing my recs for my fave live shows & events this week in highlights, I will be around bfor again leaving Berlin for some time & there’s a lot to not miss at one of my all time favorite experimental festivals Looking forward to return from 2mrw /// The Ground Basics light workshop for artists is sold out, yet since so many of yu have written me, I requested a few extra spots to be made available which should now be up Ticket link in bio, please book on yr own__ Once it’s full it’s full CTM/Photo by the impeccable @stephanieelizabeththird Photos from my lights @ Mala Haunted by @malajunta.official at @watergate.club.official last yr before it closed 🐍

/// Back to tha roots - WITCHDOCTRINE’ /// - a way of life - HAMBURG 🌿🌿🐍- /// hyped & blessed to return to play my debut album ‘WITCHDOCTRINE’ for the second time tonight, opening the downstairs floor 00:00-01:00 set time - @suedpol_hamburg with the @queer.pool family 🌿🌿🐍 The record / mixtape with its heavy hitting Beatsx, soaring cathedral-verb harmonics & banshee vocals is a culmination of 10yrs of work exploring the queering of the voice through live improvisation & live electronics - Sonically, it takes inspiration & draws references from Norwegian hardcore @kvelertakofficial , the spoken word of @jennyhval & experimental live improvisation work of Norwegian artists such as @stianwesterhus & @maja_s_k_ratkje the productions of the likes of @queenofgoldendogs & @forestswords to mention some See slides for a deep dive & reflection into themes of the record__ Blades in images are 2 sigils inherited from my grandparents, an agricultural tool to cut down grass for harvesting / 🌿🌿 / 🌿🌿 thank you to my team - finish designer @lindakokkonenofficial styled by @arabellaromen photography by @csaner - slide 19 from debut pre-launch show in Berlin last yr. +++ many other bbs more coming xx Hope to see yu around & at a show this coming year Kjærleik - MUCH LOVE GRINDERTEETH / Veslemøy 🐍

//__🌿🐍💚 I start my year now - to breathe - anticipating yr of tha snake - thankyu yr of tha dragon 🐉🐲 - Jea work is guud yet like all these past yrs, Berlin & my L.A. bbs my biggest blessing is to be by yr side in this adventure lyfe love & fight ejj - what a fucking gift it is to get to have tha same friends over ten years here & witness our lives evolve through different timings Xièxiè bbs - My love for yu is unyielding 🐍 1. Oslo Airport, January 2. With my witches @nana_ve_ & @vivian.assal for our collab performance at our Palestine fundraiser @traumabarundkino with @dykon1c 3. @evamikelatou Capricorn birthday queen 4. My love @csaner @badelv1 + 5. @camillelacadee finally gets her license after how many years but never drives me anywhere 6. @tmostudio with sculpture in his studio in L.A. 7. L.A. Birthday dinner with Laura, Tim & Luc + post sold out Venus show run at a legendary gay Mexican eatery 8. Bbs Paul @samuraicamgirl69 & @sayonaracroft on our romantic triple date 9. @arlenysmv - Elena & Adriana @ichbingatopardo at Code magazine launch 10. With bb, the person I have known the longest in this city & my sister Haja in Mexico @the_golden_gurlz_ 11. @sayonaracroft wet the killer whale beach day 12. @aceofdemons life philosophy ( Chauffeured around by me as always) 13. With @timrifai1 & @nummelaki ( pre-marriage) 14. Hiking some mountain in L.A. getting sunburned with @iamkucka 15. My Taurus brother @dyllonyoung at an iconic dj set 16. @cxntremember.it being the queen of my dreams at my place 17. ‘Who wore it better’ hair contest with a lucky troll with artist, designer & my welding teacher @lucdaboss 18. One of the most beautiful days of tha yr with Y feeding me snacks & leading me around parks all day, after we just met 💚🐍 19. With my witch wife at one of many demos ❤️‍🔥 @aatma.amtaa for readings 20. You know what today is - 🇵🇸🕊️ Pal* will be free 💚❤️🤍🖤

//__ Link in Bio__ 🐍🌿 Video animation of JAWBREAKER__ [[The Narcissist & the Co-Dependent]] by my longtime close friend, architect & artist Camille Lacadee @camillelacadee JAWBREAKER__[[The Narcissist & the Co-Dependent]] Is a track that deals with destructive structures & dynamics within the world, society, our relationships & ourselves - The video splitting // regenerating // into something more healthily balanced. Video animation // Camille Lacadee Track // produced, written & mixed by - Veslemøy Rustad Holseter / Grinderteeth

‘WITCHDOCTRINE’ - Album Pre-Launch concert. Link in bio. 20.11. /// Featuring a host & series of cameos of blessed fam, friends & berlin-based artists. This pre-launch presentation of Debut Album ‘WITCHDOCRINE’ is a culmination of 10 years of work exploring queering the voice as an instrument through the medium of live improvisation. ‘Witchdoctrine’ is a hyper-emotive political album for the collective on finding and developing ways to stay centred within yourself and keep pushing for progress in a brutal and beautiful world. With its experimental ambient witchy vibe, metal sound, and haunting banshee vocals, it is the contemporary witch’s love, power & call to action for the collective community in a hostile political climate. The 3D-Animated music video for track ‘Jawbreaker’, created by French architect, artist and set designer Camille Lacadee, - @camillelacadee one of my longtime closest friends and collaborators will be premiered & screened live for the first time on the night. Thank you Y for yr unyielding love & support - I thank the world & my guud karma every single day for placing yu in my way, and to everyone who has supported me with this project I am so grateful for yu. Yr love & support is a blessing which brings me so much spirit to fight for us. Hope to see you there boo's. With Love, Grinderteeth / Veslemøy x 🐍

// Its hard for me to understand how anyone can carry on with business as usual through all of this.. As one of my closest & family has chosen to return to Beirut to continue to aid the resistance after doing so much for us this past year, I wake up in a sweat nightly afraid for her life & worrying for their safety. with a broken heart that the west & so much of our community is staying silent & complicit through all of this - my eternal gratitude to her for everything - she should not have to carry this weight, yet we can support her & take some of the weight off - I would like to ask for yr personal favor & yr support in the form of you going to @aatma.amtaa & @cartographyofdarkness - turning on notifications & constantly sharing their information & posts. It matters. As Germany has now sunk completely into fascism & the violence we experience for protesting against this & the homes of activists are increasingly being raided - it is more important then ever to come together & organize as a community. I again as in my interview for @balladeno earlier this year call on all international artists to boycott Germany or at least speak out on the situation while you are here. My home for the past 10 yrs is complicit & hugely benefit economically from the war & occupation continuing. I understand that it’s a time where we all are triggered to the max atm. For international artists I ask that you have some understanding & willingness for conversations with smaller local artists based here who dont have the financial means to say no to shows here & to not demonize people who are working for / pushing for the resistance. Not everything can be said on these platforms or publicly. Let’s not be convinced to believe that people do not / that the world does not care - because people do & it does - I see it daily worldwide & in my community. Do what you can within your own context to contribute with it. Thank you to everyone putting their effort on the line & to all of those who speak. You have my love, appreciation & forever gratitude

Last weekend , with the leadership of @grinderteeth we were invited to be part of the first ever laboratory flinta takeover in 18years at @berghain_panoramabar . SLIT . We are beyond greatfull to have been part of this and can’t stress enough how major it is the work and vision behind this. We were the first babes in 👠 and made sure all spaces were magnetized and feromonized . The whole energy was giving after sex glow , so intimate , so sexy. It’s such an incredible realization to bond with the same souls doing the same fight reclaiming spaces around the world and we as ABOV are all about it . Be expecting some more deployements of this kind everywhere in the world . .

Years in the making 🐍🌿💚 SLIT @ Lab:Oratory FLINTA-Only__/// Like a snake, the heart sheds it skin & is born a new (Unknown) Tonight you are invited to this witch-ritual where we in the words of my bb & resistance heart @_m_a_a_y will set everything on fire - sweat - regenerate - change I know this event has made a lot of people from all different sides feel some type of way, yet rest assured that with everything I have done over the last yrs in building space for my community in Norway / UK & here, also for myself bcuz I need yu bbs to survive + the rest of the team & everything I am doing at this moment in time & even this last yr including this which has been yrs in process - I know the reasons why / know why we are doing this & I am guud with it. Yet you can reach if yu are interested in having the conversation that can’t be done on this platform. When I have time & energy I am down & around - We check inn with each other Thankyou to the ones who have held it down - the FLINTA & DYKON1C community is what real reciprocity & community support looks like - how it truly manifests in practice when things are intentional - You are 4evr the hill I am willing to die on bbs & I am happy to be apart of opening this space with you & continue to fight together until a day where it’s no longer necessary & we can just live our lives. Yet otherwise/til then it’s kamikaze for lyfe b assured. tonight we come together for the first time in what has been a dream for yrs & I am so fucking grateful. Respect this iconic space & take guud care of it, what it is & of eachother too 🔥🐍 As I contemplate my future in this city after 10 yrs here & recent news - I am happy to share this with yu as a legacy after it all - Bring yr straps, just don’t @ me if u loose it, You will have to go to lost & found 🐠👼🏻🌋🩸💅 Need assistance on the night? Look for our awareness team wearing Neon Yellow Sashes. FYI that SLIT is strictly SLINTA / FLINTA-Only for this night - cis-men will be turned away. Still ohs. That no identity has a guaranteed entry it’s as usual a door. Yet if all goes well we will have more chances in the future coming up. Sashay away let’s go bbs 🌋🌋 )