Steven Warwick (aka Heatsick)

Steven Warwick is an artist, author, and musician based in Berlin. Writing and performance connect his various practices. He has recorded several albums under his own name, as well as the alias Heatsick. He co-authored an audiovisual performance-lecture series with Nora Khan, in 2017 issued by Primary Information as a book titled Fear Indexing The X-Files. His new book, Notes On Evil, published in 2022 by Floating Opera Press, evaluates representations of evil in cinema, music, and politics to explore how societies construct enemies and create distractions from deeper inequities.

His practice encompasses theatre-making, sculptural installation, performance, video and composition. His work is disseminated on a multitude of platforms including records, galleries, nightclubs, publications and the Internet. Across these contexts, Warwick creates assemblages of performance, image, sound and language that speak to the ways in which ideologies construct and inhabit spaces, online and offline – from co-working spaces to clubs, television shows and online chat rooms. 

In its pluralistic live forms, Warwick’s work redefines the expectations and conventions that accompany events such as performance and public exhibitions. His visual work has been exhibited at numerous art institutions and he’s just as prolific as a musician. His writing has appeared in Artforum,Texte zur Kunst, BOMB, Frieze, and Urbanomic.