Originally from Paju South Korea, bela is a musician and a performance artist based in Berlin. They are known for electronic music performance merging pungmul – a Korean folk act rooted in agricultural traditions and linked to past social movements – and vocals inspired by extreme metal. bela shapes pungmul into the ritual for queer rage and grief with sub-heavy distortions and cries. Since moving to Berlin in the autumn of 2022, they have been announced as a participant of SHAPE+ Platform 23'-24'. Their releases include Guidelines (2021), 2020 (2021), and why are you so lost sweetie(2020). bela is a co-runner of Sorrow Club: a mixed event series spanning from music to non-music.

Kloxii Li (Kloh-shee-Lee) hailing from Hunan, breathes life into the musical canvas of her artistic haven in Berlin. Redefining her world through the fusion of her heritage and sonic creations. Her sound transcends boundaries between cultures, seamlessly weaving together East-West identities with her bilingual vocalizations inspired from a spectrum spanning trip-hop to ambient soundscapes. Li’s production was first discovered by Trip Hop artist Tricky, leading to a feature on his curation album 'Test of Time.' This exposure opened doors to collaborations with labels like Lex Records, Houndstooth Records, and Sound blanc Modern Sky Records, culminating in the release of her debut album 'Gentle Impermanence' on Bié Records, Beijing.

bela and Kloxii Li are residents as part of the Beta x transmediale Residency programme.

For the residency, 暴洪野火机构 – a fictional agency established by bela and Kloxii – creates the context for their collaborative performance. Focusing on the production and dissemination of musical scores that respond to the anxieties of climate collapse and mass disintegration, the duo explores how the news and social media cycles of crises affect our emotional and psychological responses to them. Drawing inspiration from East Asian rain rituals and the duo’s witnessing of flash floods and wildfires in their homelands of South Korea and California, they question the atmosphere of never-ending doom, deconstructing and reorganising its patterns and rhythms.