MEET THE TEAM

Curtis is a Funk-Punk with a love of direct growling lyrics. Claiming to be the illegitimate offspring of George Clinton and Iggy Pop his belligerent music continues to this day. From his forthcoming album Phunkarelick he presents Its' A Record! and The Devolution Will Not Be Realised.

Heinrich is a German-based businessman and the younger brother of Vader. With a love of technology and particularly electronic music he firmly believes the future is algorithmic. Heinrich ran a global interior design company for many years. Prior to his acquiring a recent interest in Hotel Zimmer he was resurrecting tracks from his Krautrock band The HAVE (The Heinrich And Vader Experience).

Monique De Pression or simply MDP is an old school writer, actor and performer. With her avant-garde poetry and feminist attitude she is a reminder that art can be dangerous whilst beautiful. MDP's contributions include a remix of seminal 1990's works from the LSD (Le Shovelle Diplomatique) Another Fruitist Painting publication.

A Jamaican from Bristol, Doodlebug's art broadcasts at the apex of immersive typographic detonations. This ambidextrous user of analogue and digital technologies examines, with fervour, the intersections between pop culture and residual colonisation. An eternal history-digger Doodlebug questions human injustice, climate racism, gender exploitation and hyper normalisation of humanity.

FuxusKunst is yet another modern art movement. It follows a Dadaist doctrine eschewing political ignorance, popular culture and mankind's' stupidity to pursue playful ripostes against human folly and cultural herd mentality. With Fuxus everything is game and nothing is sacred. Art is the everyday object, an expression of individual whimsy.(FK est.1963).

Königin is an artist and the alter ego of Kargan Media a graphic designer based in London. Her practice includes both print and online design projects for numerous commercial clients alongside her co-design on uKUNST publications and the Provisional 02 Hotel Zimmer project. Current works explore creative use of AI, coding and large language models.

Sonskrif a Cornish language word meaning 'Sound Recording' founded by musician / producer Patrick Luke. Sonskrif is an independent producer of audio-visual works, and a music label, established in 2012. (sonskrif.com).

Viral is a quiet, distracted figure at Hotel Zimmer, rarely showing interest in much beyond his one true obsession: world professional crown green bowling. He spends hours studying match statistics and obscure players' techniques. Withdrawn and unsympathetic, he relates everything to the sport, baffling guests and colleagues alike. He keeps the hotel tidy and enjoys sweeping.

Roney FM (aka RFM and other monikers) is the quintessential hybrid artist and creative producer. This activist and enfant terrible of contemporary kunst has purveyed his indie cerebral DIY Dada Punk ethic for over 30 years. His creative arsenal includes literature, visual art, graphics, photography, video, performance, audio and digital art.

The Hacker is the technology-savvy foil to the disruptions that occur at Hotel Zimmer. The Hacker employs a frightening arsenal of codes and algorithms to protect, his friends and collaborators The Artists. This character represents the struggle between those in power alongside tech corporations and ordinary folk just trying to get by and earn a crust from their work.

The Investor is a mysterious outsider whose arrival in the Hotel Zimmer story illustrates the likely outcome when corporations and investors co-opt the arts into their corporate social purpose responsibilities and policies. What is dirty money, where does it come from and is it tax deductible? Questions about The Investor centre on how he discovered the hotel and whether this constitutes an inside job?

Vader is the main protagonist in Hotel Zimmer. He is the owner of the hotel and suspected of right-leaning tendencies. Whilst outwardly pretending to support the success of the hotel and The Artists he secretly wants to undermine the business so that it fails and can be sold. Vader appear both physically and virtually throughout the Hotel Zimmer story and production.