KAOS KIA

KAOS KIA was a multidisciplinary exhibition and multimedia gathering format developed by Giek_1 and Myen in collaboration with SLUG Gallery Leipzig in 2022.

Combining performance, installation art, sculpture, visual media, scenography, sound, symbolic storytelling, and participatory ritual environments, the project explored themes of healing, cybernetic ritualism, mythology, Chaos Magick, technological consciousness, and New World building.

The first KAOS KIA took place on April 9–10, 2022 at SLUG Gallery Leipzig (Eisenbahnstraße 5, 06132 Leipzig). Giek_1’s performance works were supported through Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen (Gastspielförderung).

KAOS KIA functioned as both exhibition and temporary mythological environment — a speculative world where fiction, symbolism, ritual, technology, and collective experience merged into immersive artistic experimentation.
The project drew from ideas surrounding hyperstition, techno-magical symbolism, altered states, ritual performance, collective transformation, and the psychological effects of contemporary digital culture.

The project brought together fragments from several ongoing Reality Cult works and collaborative artistic experiments. During the events, Giek_1 presented live elements from KYBALION the Musical and Own Reality alongside physical installation works, paintings, sculptural environments, symbolic objects, and early scenographic elements later connected to the evolving visual language of KYBALION the Musical.

The exhibitions also included audiovisual works such as Spiritual Ecology Trilogy, A New World Is Inside All of Us, and collaborative visual material developed with Leif for the GIEKONSTRUCT promo shoot and multimedia environments.

KAOS KIA further brought together performances, installations, music, video work, and multimedia contributions by artists including Myen, BLKSEK, Natalia Schumskaya, Liminal Vision, Leif, Sxmbra, Donelektro, IDeath, and Salvador Marino within a shared speculative environment exploring mythology, cybernetic spirituality, ritual aesthetics, and collective transformation.

Worldbuilding Fragment

“An epidermal shift, a quake on the surface reveals a forthcoming event. A fissure in time, dilating a vacuum within an alabaster casket, manifested on a black beach.
Current temperature is at -36°C and it’s getting colder.
Spiral punctures in the slush, filling itself up after only split-seconds of time. Followed by organic, deep humming rising up from the depths of the icy morass.
Plurality. All devices shut down.
We wear protecting suits that keep our cells from aging too fast. The dilation led to time storms that altered our perception. We are all marked by a schizotechnic death-cult lifestyle.”

Within KAOS KIA, symbols, sounds, movement, and immersive environments functioned as signal-transmitters capable of evoking altered perceptual states and speculative realities.
The project explored ritual as both artistic language and psychological technology — drawing from Chaos Magick, sensory overload practices, trance states, improvisation, mythology, and participatory performance structures.

One recurring concept within the performances was the movement through different initiatory states:

First Initiation — Collective Exhaustion
A passage reached through dance, drumming, chanting, sensory overload, repetition, and ecstatic performance. A temporary collapse of ordinary cognition intended to create moments of openness, altered perception, and collective intensity.

Second Initiation — Kintsugi / The Wound Repairing State
Fragments slowly reassembling through pressure, rupture, and transformation. Wounds becoming reflective surfaces. Chaos functioning not only as destruction, but as fertile ground for reconstruction and new symbolic realities.