SLIM & KRYSTAL
Slim & Krystal consists of musician Nils Grøndahl and visual artists Rose Eken and Sidse Carstens. The group works across disciplines and media, with a particular focus on performance and sound.
A Little God in My Hands
– A performance by Slim & Krystal
V1 Gallery, October 3, 2025
A Little God in My Hands is a performance where sound and body merge into a sensuous force field — a space where sonic vibrations connect instrument, body, and audience. Taking the electric guitar as a point of departure — as object, extension, and sound generator — Slim & Krystal explore its physical and sonic potential. Through controlled feedback, noise frequencies, and tactile playing techniques — using eyelashes, tongue, and nails — a composition of noise, drone, and vibrating tones emerges. The sound is built slowly, layer by layer, into a dense auditory texture where the body becomes just as important as the ear.
The performance draws on a ritualistic dramaturgy rooted in the physical space and its materials — a refinement and magnification of the immediate, inspired by ASMR culture’s hyper-sensory approach to sound. This sensitivity is placed in tension with a raw and analog sonic universe, where noise, feedback, and uneven energy draw lines to punk’s DIY aesthetic, the uncompromising nature of noise rock, and the minimalist music tradition of 1970s New York.
Slim & Krystal dissolve the classical stage structure, placing the audience in a circular — or pentagram-shaped — formation, allowing them to take part as active participants in a shared ritual. The sound surrounds them like a circuit of vibration and presence, gradually dissolving the boundary between performer and audience.
At the center stands the electric guitar — not only as an instrument, but as a ritual object, an extended limb between body and sound. Wood, metal, and electricity are activated through touch, and each tone, each noise arises in the tension between control and surrender — as a physical gesture, a call, an echo.
A Little God in My Hands balances between violence and vulnerability, between the transcendent and the healing. A meeting point between lo-fi and hi-fi, drone and techno — a space where noise and intimacy merge into a sensual, bodily resonance.
Slim & Krystal have previously created works such as A Little God in My Hand, V1 Gallery, DK (2025) Udenjordisk Portal at the art venue Skovhuset in Værløse, DK (2024), where permanent organic sculptures transmit the sound work Udenjordisk / Extraterrestrial; the exhibition Æg og Aske in collaboration with artist Camilla Reyman at C4, DK (2022); the performance piece Ground Healing in Vildpark Guldborgsund on Falster, DK (2021); andSatisfying, a performance created with Nana-Francisca Schottländerat Sjællandsgade Bad, DK (2019).
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