Vicky Langan's "vulnerable, emotionally charged performances" (
The Wire) envelop audiences in an often troublingly intense aura of dark intimacy. In opening herself emotionally, she creates warm yet discomforting rituals that at once embrace the viewers and remain resolutely private, exploring the limits of what can be shared between people and what must remain mysterious.
Her performance practice operates across several often overlapping fields, chiefly live art, sound, and film. Wölflinge, her solo project, makes use of flesh, fluid and self built instruments. Her work in the field of sound has earned her the title of "Queen-Bee of Irish Noise" (Cork Independent). She has performed widely, both solo and in collaboration with Paul Hegarty (La Société des Amis du Crime), the Quiet Club, United Bible Studies, and many more.
More recently, she has been collaborating with experimental filmmaker
Maximilian Le Cain in a series of videos that further expand the scope of her performance work.
As a curator, she is best known for
Black Sun, her regular weirdo/outer limits music night which takes place in Cork, through which she has brought many renowned makers of strange sounds from around the world to play for the first time in this country.
