Discoteca Flaming Star

discoteca flaming star is an interdisciplinary collaborative art group, a group of people which uses songs and other forms of oral expression, understanding them as a personal response to historical events and social and political facts. Through conceptual, visual and musical transfers, they create performances, sculptures, drawings, stages and situations whose foremost intention is to question and challenge the memory of the public, transforming old desires and finding invented pasts, or pasts which never occurred. DFS is the place where the oracle speaks through the non-chosen. DFS is a love letter written in the present continuous, a love letter to thousands of artists. They exploit their knowledge and lack of knowledge, working slowly, inspired by Anita Berber, Warhol’s wig, ghosts with no home, Rita McBride’s "Arena," Greg Bordowitz, Mary Shelley, Karl Valentin & Lisl Karlstadt, the Vienna Group, Alvaro, Joey Arias and David Reed’s paintings and dialogues. DFS present wonderful songs of love, consumption, fervour and feminism, carpets that help to cross burning bridges, fragile essays as drawings, and things that go together even though they shouldn’t… They act directly in the gap between action and documentation, generating and finding documents that can be used to articulate strange tongues and languages that incite action and argument. Cristina Gómez Barrio and Wolfgang Mayer have been the base of Discoteca Flaming Star since 1998.

Miss Read 2025 - Discoteca Flaming Star/Invisible Archive, 2025

View of Miss Read table 2025 from Discoteca Flaming Star and together with Invisible Archive

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recent publications,

recent publications: Discoteca Flaming Star (2025)„Hate Verses and Love Any Out of (90 Seconds) End“, LP
Vinyl, Veröffentlicht durch „Ghost Notes Records“

Naomi Hennig, Anna-Lena Wenzel (ed.) (2020). GENERAL PUBLIC. 2005-2015. Hamburg:
Adocs Verlag

Sabeth Buchmann, Joerg Franzbecker, Discoteca Flaming Star (2019).
Discoteca Flaming Star. Sticky Stage. A Book as Evidence & Script for Future
Performances. Paolo Caffoni and Suza Husse (ed.). Berlin: Archive Books.

Discoteca Flaming Star (2019). “NOBORISNOBORISNOBORISNO”. Zürich,
Berlin, Paris: Diaphanes, Issue 6/7 Sommer/Herbst 2019. pp.22-29

Benedicte Clementsen, Discoteca Flaming Star, Frans Jacobi (2018). 2061
INMORAL LIDOS. Di Bianco, Anita (ed.) Copenhagen: Space Poetry.

Discoteca Flaming Star (2018) „Actually 12 Times Alissa“ in Power of
Material/Politics of Materiality. Susanne Witzgall, Kerstin Stakemeier (ed.)
Berlin: Diaphanes, pp. 165-171.

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recent publications,

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