In Conversation: Dis Fig and Jennifer Lucy Allan

Book ticket

FREE

Sat 23 March, 2024

15.00 - 15.50

Free for all Saturday ticket holders

River Rooms

New Wing

Part of Somerset House Studios

Producer, vocalist and performer Dis Fig joins Jennifer Lucy Allan in conversation.

An artist renowned for her haunting vocals and the emotional intensity of her performances, Dis Fig (Felicia Chen) came to prominence on the underground music scenes of Berlin and New York for her unique blend of industrial, noise and avant-garde sounds.

Ahead of presenting her new live performance, developed in residency at Somerset House Studios in partnership with Goethe-Institut London and CTM Festival, she joins writer, researcher and broadcaster Jennifer Lucy Allan to discuss vulnerability, catharsis and embracing chaos in her live performance work.

All Assembly talks are free to attend with any Saturday ticket, including tickets for individual performances.

BIOS

Dis Fig

Felicia Chen has long resisted simple categorisation. She cut her teeth operating in New York City's scrappy DIY and experimental club scenes, channelling a passion for pop music, metal, rap and global dance forms into unpredictable multi-layered DJ sets that harmonised the US East Coast's relentless noise. And when she released her debut album PURGE on the PTP imprint in 2019 it substantiated her artistic voice, refining her vast pool of influences into a cathartic distillate that oozes between vulnerable beauty and retching chaos. As a DJ she's become notorious for her curiosity and restless energy, but as a live performer she edges away from the club completely, using her acrobatic voice and entire body to transmit emotional complexity.

Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan is a writer, researcher and broadcaster with a PhD in foghorns. Her first book, The Foghorn’s Lament, was published in 2021 by White Rabbit Books. She mainly writes on experimental music for publications including The Guardian, The Quietus, and The Wire, and was previously The Wire’s Online Editor.

She is a presenter on BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction, runs the record labels Arc Light Editions and Good Energy and, more recently, the mentoring scheme Interior Motive. She is currently working on her second book.

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