Show Me The Body, Ho99o9, ZEENA, Kolya Nemoi

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TRAUMA is thrilled to present Kolya Nemoi’s first large-scale installation for the stage. His concert environment will be activated by performances from Show Me The Body, Ho99o9 and ZEENA. A signature TRAUMA concert format, this approach facilitates interdisciplinary dialogues and organically breeds new collaborative work. Show Me The Body has built a language of its own by pulling hardcore, noise, rap and banjo-driven abrasion into one physical, stripped-down sound. Ho99o9 works in a similarly confrontational register, mixing punk, hip-hop and horror aesthetics into performances that feel chaotic, theatrical and deeply controlled at once. Our opening act ZEENA, with a legendary career in dark ambient ritual music, acts as the ‘calm before the storm’ in this concert equation; blessing the room before the chaos that ensues inside Nemoi’s visual universe. All four are connected, not by genre, but by intensity. They operate with friction, distortion and threat, not as decoration, but as a way of registering the world. What emerges is not just a concert with a stronger visual identity, but a temporary world built jointly by all involved. Show Me The Body Show Me The Body is a New York City–based hardcore trio composed of Julian Cashwan Pratt (banjo, vocals), Harlan Steed (bass), and drummer Jackie McDermott. Since 2015, they’ve built a community-driven presence through DIY spaces for NYC youth, later expanding globally via their CORPUS NYC platform, hybrid punk and hip-hop tours, and intense, ritualistic live performances. Their album Trouble the Water represents nearly a decade of confronting the city’s systemic indifference while exploring themes of survival, chosen family, and collective transformation. Rooted in the spirit of the “New York Sound”—a collision of subcultures rather than a single genre—the record pushes beyond 2019’s Dog Whistle. Pratt delivers his most poetic and probing lyrics yet, while Steed broadens his experimental production with melody and structure. Together, they challenge and reshape each other’s creative roles. Rejecting nostalgia, Trouble the Water focuses on everyday acts of unity as a form of resistance and spiritual power. It’s both a call to movement and a meditation on freedom within constraint. Recorded at CORPUS Studios with producer Arthur Rizik, the album reflects their evolving identity. Following Body War (2016) and the acclaimed Dog Whistle, the band continues to expand its reach through touring, festivals, and community building—redefining hardcore’s boundaries while sustaining a global network grounded in connection and autonomy. Ho99o9 Ho99o9 conjure a volatile fusion of sound, channeling hip-hop, hardcore, punk, metal, industrial, and electronica into a chaotic, high-impact force. The duo—Yeti Bones and theOGM—reject creative limits, crafting music designed to erupt both on record and on stage. Over the years, they’ve built a cult following through acclaimed releases, major collaborations, and sold-out tours. Their third album, Tomorrow We Escape (2025), marks a new chapter. Centered on emotional depth and personal struggle, the project shifts from primarily political themes toward introspection. As Yeti Bones explains, the title reflects different forms of escape—mental health, addiction, or difficult circumstances—left open to listener interpretation. For theOGM, the goal was to create more relatable, emotionally driven songs while still preserving their edge. Originally from New Jersey, the duo relocated to Los Angeles over a decade ago and broke out with their 2017 debut United States of Horror, widely praised as uniquely uncompromising. Known for explosive live performances, they’ve shared stages with artists across genres and earned respect from a wide creative circle. With continued critical acclaim and cultural impact, Ho99o9 remain a relentless and genre-defying presence. ZEENA Zeena Schreck, known by her mononymous artist name ZEENA, is an interdisciplinary artist, musician, and writer whose work explores the intersection of sound, visuals, ritual, and esoteric practice. As one who has a unique history in magical practices and Tibetan Buddhism, she brings a rare depth of lived knowledge to her art. ZEENA's musical career spans an evolution from 1980s darkwave, industrial, and post-punk into the liminal realms of avant-garde sound art, dark ambient, and ritual music. Her compositions unfold with a liturgical, hypnotic pull—opening thresholds into otherworldly states of awareness. Through minimalist industrial textures, field recordings, and electronic manipulation, interwoven with chants and mantras, she conjures immersive sonic environments that feel at once meditative and uncanny, intimate and expansive. Kolya Nemoi Kolya Nemoi is a Ukrainian multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, tattooing, street interventions and fashion, rooted in a formative background of skate culture and graffiti. Beginning his artistic journey at sixteen, his early experiences - from painting in a cemetery-facing studio to hand-poking tattoos for friends - shaped a deeply intuitive and self-driven approach. His work explores the psychological depth of the human condition, often materialising as dark, surreal figures that blur the line between the visible and the hidden. Drawing from personal anxiety and subconscious introspection, Nemoi treats the canvas as a site of confrontation, where emotion and ambiguity take precedence over formal precision. Central to his practice is an ongoing dialogue between mediums, with sketchbooks acting as the connective tissue across disciplines. Through this fluid system, Nemoi constructs a singular, evolving universe - one that privileges mystery, emotional resonance, and the unseen layers of human experience.