From the days of Sex and Disease, her first tape on the Berlin label Noisekölln, through to the recently released track “Very Uncomfortable, Please,” Pan Daijing has remained true to her penchant for rather ominous titles. Though Daijing’s sound has evolved from hissing noise experiments to driving, overwrought techno, her aesthetic, equal parts brutal and seductive, has remained unchanged in its willful exploration of the territories within and between “sex” and “uncomfortable.” The Chinese artist came to Berlin via San Francisco and has made her artistic home in a sinister frenzy between dance, BDSM, performance art, and noise. Daijing’s performances are extremely physical and often interdisciplinary. Most recently, she performed the metamorphosis-laden work ELEPHANT. The artist’s Facebook page mentions “live performance based on architectural space and individual exchange. Sound recordings based on improvisation and stories.” Picture all of that, and then picture all of that in the darkroom, and there you have it.

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