Due to its special history, Berlin has always been a city of transformation - politically, socially, culturally, economically. Currently, such a moment of change is again palpable. These experiences are particularly reflected in the city's club culture, which is known and celebrated worldwide.
Today, club culture is seen primarily as an economic and cultural factor. Less often we consider from which social structures club culture emerges, which communities shape it, keep it going and thus also define the social life of the city. For many queer and marginalised people, club culture is not simply a possibility for hedonistic leisure activities, but a social necessity.
We are the collective ( ) s-p-a-c-e and we look at Berlin's club culture from a queer and subcultural perspective. We don’t want to talk about club culture but aim to listen to voices from within the community — from queer club workers, collectives, bookers, DJs, artists, bartenders, bouncers, promoters, technicians, runners and cultural workers.
What defines Berlin's club culture? Who shapes it? What supporting role do queer communities play and why? Who has access and who doesn't? Who benefits? How can club culture remain significant? And how can we create resistant but open places that challenge social, (hetero)normative and capitalist conditions?
We want to ask these and other questions in the Fluidity of Resistance - the podcast about queer club culture in Berlin.
Podcast produced by collective ( ) s-p-a-c-e
Hosted by neo seefried
Research and editing by xan egger und neo seefried
Track 'The Hustle' courtesy of Nene H
Audio edit by Gilles Yann Smrkovsky
Design by xan egger
Design edit by wro wrzesinska
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Due to its special history, Berlin has always been a city of transformation - politically, socially, culturally, economically. Currently, such a moment of change is again palpable. These experiences are particularly reflected in the city's club culture, which is known and celebrated worldwide.
Today, club culture is seen primarily as an economic and cultural factor. Less often we consider from which social structures club culture emerges, which communities shape it, keep it going and thus also define the social life of the city. For many queer and marginalised people, club culture is not simply a possibility for hedonistic leisure activities, but a social necessity.
We are the collective ( ) s-p-a-c-e and we look at Berlin's club culture from a queer and subcultural perspective. We don’t want to talk about club culture but aim to listen to voices from within the community — from queer club workers, collectives, bookers, DJs, artists, bartenders, bouncers, promoters, technicians, runners and cultural workers.
What defines Berlin's club culture? Who shapes it? What supporting role do queer communities play and why? Who has access and who doesn't? Who benefits? How can club culture remain significant? And how can we create resistant but open places that challenge social, (hetero)normative and capitalist conditions?
We want to ask these and other questions in the Fluidity of Resistance - the podcast about queer club culture in Berlin.
Podcast produced by collective ( ) s-p-a-c-e
Hosted by neo seefried
Research and editing by xan egger und neo seefried
Track 'The Hustle' courtesy of Nene H
Audio edit by Gilles Yann Smrkovsky
Design by xan egger
Design edit by wro wrzesinska
In the second episode, neo talks with their guests about the dancefloor as a social space and raving as an experience. What do we feel when we are on the dancefloor? Sir Rita, curator and writer for GEGEN relates raving to them as dance therapy and trauma processing machines. Juan Carlos, who experienced (queer) communities throughout the years in San Francisco, New York, Miami, Puerto Rico tells about the unique intergenerational connections he makes on the dancefloors in Berlin. Together we discuss the affective states of emergency and body liberation via dancing, raving, connecting, vibrating and shaking and the potentials of pleasure activism in queer club culture.
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Podcast produced by ( ) s-p-a-c-e
Hosted by neo seefried
Research and editing by neo seefried and xan egger
Track 'The Hustle' courtesy of Nene H
Audio edit by Gilles Yann Smrkovsky
Design by xan egger
Design edit by wro wrzesinka
The Fluidity of Resistance
Due to its special history, Berlin has always been a city of transformation - politically, socially, culturally, economically. Currently, such a moment of change is again palpable. These experiences are particularly reflected in the city's club culture, which is known and celebrated worldwide.
Today, club culture is seen primarily as an economic and cultural factor. Less often we consider from which social structures club culture emerges, which communities shape it, keep it going and thus also define the social life of the city. For many queer and marginalised people, club culture is not simply a possibility for hedonistic leisure activities, but a social necessity.
We are the collective ( ) s-p-a-c-e and we look at Berlin's club culture from a queer and subcultural perspective. We don’t want to talk about club culture but aim to listen to voices from within the community — from queer club workers, collectives, bookers, DJs, artists, bartenders, bouncers, promoters, technicians, runners and cultural workers.
What defines Berlin's club culture? Who shapes it? What supporting role do queer communities play and why? Who has access and who doesn't? Who benefits? How can club culture remain significant? And how can we create resistant but open places that challenge social, (hetero)normative and capitalist conditions?
We want to ask these and other questions in the Fluidity of Resistance - the podcast about queer club culture in Berlin.
Podcast produced by collective ( ) s-p-a-c-e
Hosted by neo seefried
Research and editing by xan egger und neo seefried
Track 'The Hustle' courtesy of Nene H
Audio edit by Gilles Yann Smrkovsky
Design by xan egger
Design edit by wro wrzesinska
