OMOS (2022) celebrates contemporary Black performance and pays tribute to Black performers at the Scottish court in the sixteenth century, and connections to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The twenty-minute work is the first film work by cabaret artist Rhys Hollis, well known as an influential figure in London’s queer art scene. The film features a visual journey through a castle and a forest, created in collaboration with opera singer Andrea Baker, dancer Divine Tasinda, and pole performer Kheanna Walker.

Curator: Kathrin Becker

15.7., 20:00 (Doors: 19:00)
Shades: Queer Black Cabaret
Cabaret evening with drag, opera, and music, in which internationally known artists celebrate queer and Black experiences: Rhys Hollis (Artist, London); also known as Rhys's Pieces – rapping drag extraordinaire and one-person cabaret troop – and Andrea Baker (Mezzo-soprano, Scotland and Germany) on the piano: Albert Horne (Chorus master and conductor, Germany)
Pepsi Boston Bar at SchwuZ (Rollbergstraße 26, 12053 Berlin)
In English
Free admission

Unusual, important and surprising! (...) The film production "OMOS" can be experienced from March at the KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art in the exciting and often still quite "rumpy" Neukölln.
[Ungewöhnlich, wichtig und überraschend! (...) Die Filmproduktion „OMOS“ wird ab März im KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst im spannenden und oft noch recht „rumpligen“ Neukölln zu erleben sein.]
Michael Rädel, maenner.media, 26.1.23

Black actors at the court of King James VI of Scotland are the subject of the 20-minute performance film "OMOS". (...) And to give it away straight away: black people had to play the lion for James.
[Schwarze Schauspieler am Hof von König James VI. von Schottland sind das Thema des 20-minütigen Performance-Films „OMOS“. (...) Und um es gleich zu verraten: Schwarze mussten bei James den Löwen geben.]
Tip Berlin, 3.23

Further Material:
Room Guide Rhys Hollis, Andrea Baker, Divine Tasinda & Kheanna Walker. OMOS