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
Long time no see, but The Fluidity of Resistance is back! In the fifth episode host neo seefried invites drag queen, choreographer, moderator, and writer Olympia Bukkakis. Her practice is inspired by tensions and intersections between queer nightlife and contemporary dance and performance. In this conversation Olympia and neo talk about politics and behavior in queer related spaces and the interchanges of subculture and (cultural) institutions. As a worker of the night, how do you move in between subcultural and institutionalized spaces? Olympia explains more about the privilege to be in the room and whether state funding of queer sub- and club culture is a solution to the low paying rates in culture and nightlife.
Sources from Olympia:
Channing Gerard Joseph (2020): The First Drag Queen Was a Former Slave
Michael Lowy (2016): Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's 'On the Concept of History
Karl Marx (1872): Das Kapital
Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi (2018): Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory
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