FLESH RITUALS & SIREN SONGS IV
Rites of Opening, a collaboration...
Welcome to the Rites of OPENING.
FLESH RITUALS & SIREN SONGS returns to Sydney in 2025 with a Rite of Opening for ASSFest S25 in collaboration with the Australian School of Sexuality.
Join us in an orgy of fetishistic performance art entwined with sonic mayhem to open the portals for the 10 day long erotic / education / experiential festival of ASSfest.
A night of creative collaborations where the lines between sets become blurred, a continual narrative that invites you into the flow, to move and dance in the chaos and let yourself be taken by the tides.
Additional lineup and collaborations to be announced…
THE DETAILS
29 August 2025
Darling Nikki's, PETERSHAM
SCHEDULE
(All run times are approximate and subject to change)
Door Open / Opening Rituals - 7pm
Bands + Performances - 7:30-late​
TICKETS
THE LINEUP
Once more into the fires, Industrial Gothic conspirators in aural carnality ZCluster team up with impeccable dominatrix and seasoned performer Mistress Tokyo to bind Sai Lillith in the circles of rope and sound; an ascent in Shibari suspension while they sing their invocations in a shared ritual of beautiful sufferance and endurance.​​​
One man chaos engine and performance artist Cheap Coffins careens between brutality and vulnerability, dragging you with them into the center of their maestorm and transmuting the line between witness and participant.
Traditional Shibari with a punk aesthetic, casting rituals in rope and rapture, the erotic chemistry of Sai Lillith & Eve X draws deep from the well to fill this vessel with interrogations of myth & power, flesh & desire.
Adorable, abravise, and unstoppable, Myxi Bun emerges from an aural abyss of undeniably catchy electronic pixellations to cavort across your consciousness.
Hard as nails, flowing like silk, Em Jade is an aerial dervish using ropes and chains as their weapon of choice. Pushing their body faster, harder, deeper into submersion, defiant in the depths.
Experimental retro electro synth beats wearing a Kidskin suit.
Flesh artist and primal witch Eve X weaves through space and appears exactly where and when they need to be.
We will be running a sliding scale ticketing for the event - pay what you can from $25 upwards. This means those who can and want to support the industry, arts and creatives can contribute more and help support those who want to attend but are in financial difficulty. Times are tough but let's share the love and lift each other up! ​
$40 - BASELINE TICKET PRICE
$25+ - SLIDING SCALE TICKETS
if you’re not in a position to pay the Baseline price please take advantage of our community pricing tickets!
if you can and wish to, you can support the industry, our production company and the artists as well as helping to subsidize those who have need of the community ticket! All profits are divided between artists and The Soft Machine.
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Join us.
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