Things
started off with a nice low key bang in the form of a roundtable discussion
under the heading: Queering and Decolonizing Art and Visual Culture with
British writer, activist and interdisciplinaryartist Raju Rage and gorgeous
Afro German blacktavist, curator and scholar Sandrine Micosse’-Atkins whose new
tome Little Book of Big Visions I am dying to read.
The
second day the theme was Queer Temporalities, Film & Movement and the first
lecturina was by the dazzling Katrin Koppert, “Tableaux and Tableaux Vivants of
Pain and Queer Time in Photography and/as Film. Katrin lives in Berlin but
works in Linz Austria and collaborates with Todd Sekular.
My
CHEAP kollektiv co-hort Marcuse Siegelstein also shined with his Catskills
circuit talk Images From the Post Heterosexual Age.
I
felt bad that I missed most of the vivacious Eliza Steinboch’s Puncture Wounds,
Sensing Gender-Nonconformity Stigma in the Anti-Portrait and the personable and
engaging Anthony Clair Wagner’s REappropriating the Monster: From Stigma to Empowerment part of the Trans
Media-Trans Bodies program as I had to get into hair & make-up as I was the
keynote speaker that evening under the heading of Queer Punk Politics.
Special
thankx to my juicy & lovely personal assistant Marieka who is an
undergraduate student who devoted herself to me during my visit and did a
wonderful job doing my hair and make-up.
I love you Mareika you are the bestest!
After my artist talk there was a delish catered vegan dinner at Club
Polyester in the Olde City Center and after party which featured the famous
feministische Djane from Aotearoa, New Zealand Bella Cuts aka: Jen Bell who
makes u dance on the ruins of white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. Miss Bella Cuts has relocated to Berlin and I
hope to be seeing lots of her in the future as she is the one adoreable young
woman.
The
last day of the festivities WoWed and featured academic super shtar Mimi Thi
Nguyen an associate professor of Gender
and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign who presented with punque aplomb Minor Threats. Mimi has brought to her university my old
comrade in femme arms Alice Bag Armendariz and is such a solid archivist of all
things punc having written for Maximumrocknroll, Punk Planet and her own
compilation zine Race Riot. Katherina Wiedlack who is based in Vienna Austria
closed things beautifully and sonically with her lecture Loud, Rude and with an
Attitude: Queer-Feminist Punk in/as
Form, Meaning and Affect concentrating on letting us hear some amazing new punk
bands of color based in Portland and Seattle while mixing in a little theory
via Lee Edelman’s No Future: Queer
Theory and the Death Drive. Honey it
doesn’t get any better then this. But
yes it did get better with a nice summation by the famed lesbianfeminist Antke
Engel of the legendary Queer Institute Berlin.
Yowza!
*
For
those of you visiting Berlin in February and want to have some alternatives to
the International Berlinale Film Festival please check out this exciting event
by underground film legend Wilhelm Hein and his art photog girlfriend Annette
Frick:
IN KÜRZE
GROSSES TAMTAM!!!!!!!!!
WIEDERERÖFFNUNG
ZEIG' WAS DU
WIRKLICH KANNST!!!!!
COMING SOON!!!!!!!
RE-OPENING!!!!!!!!!
BIG WHOOPY-WHOOPY
!!!!
SHOW WHAT YOU REALLY CAN DO
!!!!!!!!
Achtung:
neuer Termin:
Samstag
7.2.2015 ab 18 Uhr
PFUSCHEN
VERBOTEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NO MESSING AROUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
schummeln und
flunkern erlaubt
fudging and cheating
allowed
YOU HAVE 3 MINUTES TO
CREATE YOUR PIECE OF ART
DU HAST 3
MINUTEN ZEIT (D)EIN KUNSTWERK ZU SCHAFFEN!!!
SEND US YOUR CONTRIBUTION:
IMAGE, SOUND, TEXT, FILM, FOTO, MUSIC, POEM
OR PERFORMANCE TO THE FOLLOWING ADRESS:
or analogue Post to
Wilhelm Hein -
Seest.107 - D-13353 Berlin
or bring it personal at
least one day before the big WHOOPY-WHOOPY !
oder bring es
persönlich mindestens 1 Tag vor Eröffnung
schick uns
deinen Beitrag: Bild, Sound, Text, Film, Foto, Musik, Gedicht, Poem, Performance,
per mail an Kintoppp@gmx.de oder Frick@gmx.de oder per Post an
Wilhelm Hein
- Seest.107 - D-13353 Berlin
herzlichst
Wilhelm Hein und Annette Frick
*
And
this happening by Basso Art Guru Yusuf Etiman:
dear
friends of audio pleasures
i am very happy to announce that i will be programming some 'sonic adventures' at the non-profit exhibition space between bridges in schöneberg for the whole month of february. since september, between bridges has installed a playback room featuring a high end stereo sound system, which not only in its sweet spot provides a fabulous hearing experience.
the rough framework of the programme is like this:
throughout the month, between bridges will be open wednesdays to fridays from 3pm and i will be present during opening hours.
every wednesday at 7 pm, we will screen a film programme with a special emphasis on the soundtrack.
saturdays is open house, where everybody can come and share their favourite tracks (or video clips etc).
thursdays and fridays, there is the opportunity to put up special listening events…
so all of you, from high end nerds to disco fire birds - this goes out to you!
let me know if you have ideas! let's take the opportunity to spoil our ears… the only limit is that we keep it to the playback framework, meaning no live gigs/performances etc.
with great help of some of our friends, the space will be transformed for leisurely comfort and there will always be a hot tea waiting for you. i would also be very happy if this month gives us the framework to further reflect about spaces for sound presentation, which, as some of you well know, has been a main topic in my research since basso closed down. in recent time, i teamed up with mate galic and barbara architects to push and further crystalise the ideas about purpose building a sound space for our community. if you have any ideas, tips, knowledge, whatever you might think is important to share in this context - this february we can talk about all of that.
you will get a weekly programme email from between bridges on every sunday in the coming month - please let me know if you do not wish this. i know that some of you are abroad or packed with other things and can not join physically. but please, if you have any proposals for listening adventures, get in touch with me. i will be happy to spread your sound in your absence. also if you have friends who you think might be interested, please forward them the programme, or send their email to me or between bridges, so we can include them in the mailings.
there is a cd player, a turntable (not two!), a projector and the possiblity to play sound files - which preferably should be really good quality, not lores mp3s or so…
if you want to know precisely about the tech set up, please download: www.etiman.de/Techniks.pdf
i hope this finds you all well, and i wish all of you could pay a visit to
Bring Your Own (Playback Room part III)
a month of sonic adventures
04.02.2015 – 28.02.2015
www.betweenbridges.net
Keithstrasse 15, 10787 Berlin
a big hug, can't wait!
yusuf
i am very happy to announce that i will be programming some 'sonic adventures' at the non-profit exhibition space between bridges in schöneberg for the whole month of february. since september, between bridges has installed a playback room featuring a high end stereo sound system, which not only in its sweet spot provides a fabulous hearing experience.
the rough framework of the programme is like this:
throughout the month, between bridges will be open wednesdays to fridays from 3pm and i will be present during opening hours.
every wednesday at 7 pm, we will screen a film programme with a special emphasis on the soundtrack.
saturdays is open house, where everybody can come and share their favourite tracks (or video clips etc).
thursdays and fridays, there is the opportunity to put up special listening events…
so all of you, from high end nerds to disco fire birds - this goes out to you!
let me know if you have ideas! let's take the opportunity to spoil our ears… the only limit is that we keep it to the playback framework, meaning no live gigs/performances etc.
with great help of some of our friends, the space will be transformed for leisurely comfort and there will always be a hot tea waiting for you. i would also be very happy if this month gives us the framework to further reflect about spaces for sound presentation, which, as some of you well know, has been a main topic in my research since basso closed down. in recent time, i teamed up with mate galic and barbara architects to push and further crystalise the ideas about purpose building a sound space for our community. if you have any ideas, tips, knowledge, whatever you might think is important to share in this context - this february we can talk about all of that.
you will get a weekly programme email from between bridges on every sunday in the coming month - please let me know if you do not wish this. i know that some of you are abroad or packed with other things and can not join physically. but please, if you have any proposals for listening adventures, get in touch with me. i will be happy to spread your sound in your absence. also if you have friends who you think might be interested, please forward them the programme, or send their email to me or between bridges, so we can include them in the mailings.
there is a cd player, a turntable (not two!), a projector and the possiblity to play sound files - which preferably should be really good quality, not lores mp3s or so…
if you want to know precisely about the tech set up, please download: www.etiman.de/Techniks.pdf
i hope this finds you all well, and i wish all of you could pay a visit to
Bring Your Own (Playback Room part III)
a month of sonic adventures
04.02.2015 – 28.02.2015
www.betweenbridges.net
Keithstrasse 15, 10787 Berlin
a big hug, can't wait!
yusuf