Arenberg presents: CEBIL, Rotkat & Vonk & Zonen

Somewhere between pure improv, organised chaos, minimal composition, twang, wide-eyed and with a dose of DIY aesthetics lies the world of Cebil.

It`s a poetic & cosmic universe, exploring “discreet music” whilst wandering on the edges of the Cat People soundtrack & Brian Eno’s more experimental output, carried by visuals into a living installation of sorts.

Jan De Vroede weaves Home-made instruments, old tape loops, broken synths, dusty beat boxes and the occasional doom guitar squall into a tapestry that nestles itself firmly around the solitary voice of Mashid Mohadjerin, who’s captivating parlando dictates attention to both the visuals and the topics of social injustice, resilience and resistance that are also prominently there in her solo visual art. Unpredictability is embedded in the duo’s diverse output - roles are swapped, improv takes over, no two sets ever the same.

The visuals are videocollages combining moving image, photo and animation, allowing various interpretations. The duo takes you on a journey through movement, transition and unexpected compositions.

Mashid Mohadjerin (PhD) is a visual artist, her work is shown internationally and has received multiple awards. In recent years Mohadjerin’s research-based work has expanded towards multi-media installations containing video work, sound, text, collages and performance. Through these media she continues to explore multiperspectivity and alternative forms of narration.

Sound artist and composer Jan De Vroede has a broad artistic practice that explores the boundaries between music and visual art. He focuses on creative collaboration, improvisation, and experimentation, teaches at the École Nationale d’Art (Paris), and is an internationally sought-after producer with multiple awards and two golden records. His solo album JAAN will be released in 2025 on World Of Echo.

Vieze Meisje is the musical incarnation of performance artist Maya Mertens.
In 2019, she founded the Vieze Cirkel, a cult that guarantees exclusivity for everyone and creates random bonds in a world endlessly spinning in circles. That same year, she met producer Azertyklavierwerke. Since then, they have shared a passion for uncompromising eclecticism and a hunger for unexpected twists around every corner.

In October 2025, they will release their debut album CUT COPY GUT on Rotkat Records. Exclusively for Crossing Border, they’re leaving the computer at home and going back to basics: Vieze Meisje “Piano & A Microphone 2025.”

The Antwerp‐based band De Kloe delivers high‐energy live shows full of driving riffs, pounding drums and free improvisation. The quartet, Kiara Govaert, Midas Heuvinck, Leon Jespers and Elian Van den Eynde draws inspiration from electropunk, techno, and everything in between noise and pop music. The result is a dynamic whole in which sounds collide and amplify one another. Or, as De Kloe was once described: “When five entirely different bands seem to be playing at the same time, and it magically works.

Maxime Garcia Diaz (1993) studied Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. In 2019, she won the Dutch Poetry Slam Championship and was selected for deBuren’s Paris residency. In 2020, her chapbook Artificielle was published by the label Marktcorruptie, and she collaborated with other writers on a performance exploring post-woke poetic resistance. She made her debut in July 2021 with the poetry collection Het is warm in de hivemind (It’s Warm in the Hivemind), published by De Bezige Bij, which was awarded the C. Buddingh’ Prize in June 2022. In 2023, she contributed to the short film Center, Ring, Mall by Mateo Vega, which was selected for the International Film Festival Rotterdam and New Directors/New Films at MoMA-Lincoln Center. In 2025, Garcia Diaz completed an MFA in Creative Writing at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. On 1 October, her new poetry collections will be published by De Bezige Bij: Het netwerk moet gebouwd worden / The Network Must Be Built (in Dutch and English).

SAD-DADA-PUNK-RAP

Sad Banana tries to see the world through the eyes of a banana. Through inconsistent musings, they craft an existential fruit salad in musical form. Lyrics swinging between grandiose declarations and panic attacks, vulnerability and kitsch, politics and pastiche. Sad! Sad Banana nurtures this bittersweet melancholy across words, music, and visuals.

Drawing on a love of punk, rap, and Dadaism, Sad B transforms the experience of being an overripe banana in a post-capitalist world into sound. It makes them sad, but when handled right, tears turn into beats. Sad!

On stage, Sad B performs in three languages and blends genres that shift from Dadaist punk to sharp, juicy rap verses to French chanson. Their shows feature a DIY banana organ and deconstructed drums, balancing on a thin line between grandiosity and panic, vulnerability and kitsch, politics and pastiche. Sad!