Discoteca Flaming Star (DFS) is an interdisciplinary collaborative art group founded in 1998 by Cristina Gómez Barrio & Wolfgang Mayer.
Since 2009, I’ve been improvising, recording and performing with DFS in pieces such as Momentum, Sticky Stage, Hate Verses, INGRID, La Mano Gigante,Eigentlich 12 mal Alissa; performing in NY, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Vienna, Sofia, Madrid, San Sebastian among other.
Documentation of a few:
Live Performance & Album release
Hate Verses and Love Any Out of (90 Seconds) End
at Heusteigtheater ABK Stuttgart 08.02.2025
MOMENTUM 2022-2024
a two year long research on audio work, improvisation, layering and media translations, with Discoteca Flaming Star for Arena – Momentum by Rita McBride, DIA-Beacon, NYC.
TRAILER WITHOUT TRAILER
Dubplates and Live Performance, 2020-2022
DFS (CGB, Sofia Lomba, Sara Pereira, WM)
Developed and recorded during a week of rehearsals, in a time-window between Pandemic lockdowns, in September 2020. An opportunity to come back together, thanks to District Berlin.
This material is part of the ongoing Research INGRID – Hospital(y)tis. (2020-2021)
COUNTRYNONOCHICAS
DFS (CGB, Sofia Lomba, Sara Pereira, WM)
Soundtrack for Installation Never Memorize Poems in Landscape Leeway, Kunstverein Tiergarten, 2018.
The same piece was performed live at Savvy Contemporary, 2018.
STICKY STAGE
DFS (CGB, Sara Pereira, WM)
a temporary space within a dystopian landscape in which to take up our fatigue and our dreams in order to approach a tender imagination. complete info at Discoteca Flaming Star
Sticky Stage Performance, at District Berlin, 2017 (Photo: Emma Haugh)
Sticky Stage Performance in and with Arena, at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 2016 (Videofragments: Claudia Gienger.)
HATE VERSES
Hate Verses at Friends with Books, Hamburger Bahnhof, 2016, Berlin
DFS (CGB, Consuelo Guijarro, Sara Pereira, WM)
ongoing works 