Brutalust 

Colin Frank (CA) and Maria Sappho (USA) are Brutalust, an ensemble who experiment with intermedia and

mixed-discipline art to create expressive, stimulating and audience interactive works. Their work breaks

down separations between live performance, art, and audience. Brutalust’s piece The Lesson, presented at

the Leeds Sounds Like THIS festival (2020), used a large, amplified string grid which the performers activated

using their whole bodies to investigate niche and the degradation of language. Their video piece Domains,

published in the MASS issue Inhuman (2020), morphed bodies with plants, forming entities residing in other

worldly biotic realms. Their sound works have been broadcast on BBC radio 3 (Unclassified, 2021) and released

by verz (2021) Accidental (2022) and Crow Verses Crow (2022).