GUN DESTRUCTION Gibling 2026 - ALL NOTES
Edition No. 15 features the GUN DESTRUCTION GIBLING by Stephanie Mercedes and Heike Kaltenbrunner. This Gibling depicts scenes from the three-part queer gun destruction opera NEVER IN OUR IMAGE. In this opera musical instruments and sonic sculptures are created from reclaimed guns. Musical scores are composed through cutting, melting, and utilizing instruments cast from weapons. Through the transformation of queering metal and sound, and staging with a queer community, the fundamental question is posed: How can we reclaim ideas and objects that were never created in our image?
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Gun DESTRUCTION GIBLING 2026:
Stephanie Mercedes is an anti-disciplinary Queer Latinx artist who works in sculpture, opera, techno, choreography, and sound. Their work revolves around creating rituals of mourning and rituals of liberation. Mercedes melts weapons to create instruments and sculptures. She also unearths overlooked histories of violence. Mercedes has exhibited and performed at the Smithsonian, the National Gallery of Art, the Kennedy Center, the Bronx Museum, the Walters Art Museum, and the Art Museum of the Americas.
Heike Kaltenbrunner is a sound and media artist. Her artistic practice and research focus on object-based spatial and sound installations that create experimental spaces for encounter. Her points of reference range from the grand phenomena of the cosmos to human perception. Her works have been exhibited internationally, including at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum, the ICMC, and at festivals such as Konfrontationen and Music Unlimited.
Opera “Never In Our Image”: Stephanie Mercedes || Graphics: Heike Kaltenbrunner || Photos: Amir Pourmand || Linz performance of the opera in September 2026: Stephanie Mercedes, Heike Kaltenbrunner & Guests
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