Two alchemists already aware of each other’s Instagrams meet for the first time in a gay sauna. They are swimming; it’s the Hood By Air afterparty in Paris. They are Lukas Hofmann and Nils Amadeus Lange. Months later, they meet again. They are on the edge of yet another steaming pool; it’s the Manifesta Biennale closing event at Cabaret Voltaire. They are performing the perfume titled “L’eau des Algues.”

Together, the perfumiers dressed Cabaret Voltaire like it was a model: leaves of the dying cabbage were peeled off and laid on fluorescent tube lighting, strung into a mobile or cobweb by red thread used to sew the garments. Mixing with palo santo smoke, milk-dense fumes poured out from a nugget of dry ice submerged in a cup of Lange’s piss

Text by Nat Marcus

DIS Magazine