COLLABORATIONS
Amber is deeply passionate about creating new ways for the operatic voice, and the transcendental nature of bel canto singing to be heard.
Due to her numerous collaborations with artists from different working mediums
Fasquelle is considered an interdisciplinary vocal artist, performing in opera houses as well as Contemporary Art contexts. She explores characters and musical history through site-specific interventions with the voice.
Humanities at ICA London with Laxlan Petras and Yasmin Saleh
Humanities is a collaborative live performance originally conceived by artists Laxlan Petras, Yasmin Saleh and Amber Fasquelle that premiered at Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London in August 2025.
The piece combines opera with spatial installation elements. Humanities consists of a sequence of charged encounters—live tableaux where bodies hesitate between control and passivity, intimacy and estrangement. Throughout the performance, the question of what constitutes ‘the human’ is neither affirmed nor dissolved but held open in fragile suspension, as performers oscillate between embodiment and image, between agency and exposure.
Its first iteration was shown at Berlin Atonal’s Universal Metabolism exhibition in August, 2023. The trio worked together on a new iteration for ICA London which premiered August, 2025.
Humanities at Berlin Atonal with Laxlan Petras and Yasmin Saleh
Artists Laxlan Petras, Yasmin Saleh and Amber Fasquelle
collaborate and look at both mundane and transcendental forms of human coexistence.
Petras’ work is rooted in his biography and his practice embraces an array of media that provide space for intimacy, desire and identity.
FUCK MARRY KILL ODER DAS WARTEN AUF GERTRUD ODER DAS TREFFEN DER 100 WUNDERKINDER
October 12/13/14/15 2023
FMK#2
“Waiting for Gertrud or the Meeting of the 100 Child Prodigies” examines the content and discursive nature of the songs of 100 female composers from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Unjustly forgotten, female composers are hailed as child prodigies during their lifetime, but do not find their way into the canon of music history and are systematically erased from the chronicles of music historiography.The negation of the artistic abilities of female composers has a long tradition and continues to have an impact today. The evening examines the reasons for this and organizes the discourse. Taking up the idea of the contentious salon, an ephemeral archive of songs of all genres and languages is created, transcultural and cross-stylistic. Together with an actress, a pianist, four singers and a girls' choir, we examine the song's political, aesthetic and social explosiveness.How can we understand the artistic work of female composers as a fundamental part of classical music and not as a gender-specific exception? The FUCK MARRY KILL team is re-researching the musical past and the artistic future.