This A-side of A Rational Tangle, released in 2015 on The Death of Rave has the most beautiful drop. Instead of “driving” one should describe techno as “pulling patterns”, I have proposed on the basis of Henning Baer’s machinic rubbing (L. Fakegruber: A new rave writing term for “driving”. In: Shituationist Institute, 12/6/2019), A1 of…
Some common techno writing attributes just make you shake your head, words like “driving” to describe the flow of a track. With a track like the one above by Henning Baer you can hear a big drum and a dark net, and a machinic rubbing. Another term for driving: unfolding of the pulling pattern.
The year is 2029, we are sitting in front of the prestigious cultural centre owned since some years by the Hyperreality Festival Foundation and we think back to the year 2019, when the first independent issue of the festival was held in the Austrian outback of the Vienna forest Wienerwald, up in a rural holiday…
In Austria there are plenty of festivals that showcase experimental and (post-)club music. Plus something else. In the following series I will discuss three of them. They happen in springtime: donaufestival (Krems), Hyperreality (Vienna) and the Heart of Noise festival (Innsbruck). If you like cutting edge electronic and experimental music mixed with art or performance…
This Saturday the rave scientist Lukas Fakegruber of the Shituationist Institute will hold a seminar about the emancipatory potentials of club culture: Reclaim your Club Reclaim Club Culture is a network reflecting on the conditions of hosting raves, asking how party organizers can position themselves face to face with structures of power and exploitation in…
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” ― Albert Camus Short Note: This October in Berlin – Neükolln was something different, especially the last days which were actually even better than the summer days.. Therefore we have every reason to celebrate and write about it. The walks outside have met discussions…
The Shituationist Institute proudly presents: PERFORMANCE //Lucas Elliot Fakegruber (Shituationist Institute) – Dark Surfaces. Inside the Rave Situation The uniformity of the rave situation is the basis for precise deviance. Entrusting oneself to the concept: After setting the time frame, the sound and light and crowd then create the rugged line of the evening with…
Nicolas Moulin – Vider Paris, 2001 (via) The situationist idea to let old city structures like the labyrinths of Amsterdam grow into superstructures across the whole planet with psychogeographic zones according to the needs of the inhabitants (titled “New Babylon”) was defeated by european cities being a collage of old and new. The old often…
End of march exhibitions, presentations, sounds, places: Chto Delat exhibition is still on at KOW Gallery Florence Jung at Edmund Felson until the 25th Achim Szepanski/Andrzej Steinbach book presentation Ultrablack of Music 29th at Echo Books Long Now in Kraftwerk Berlin 25th-26th 28th Dead Ladies Show 23rd+24th Säule Opening at Berghain yours,
“Nothing to Hide” is a film started by Marc in April 2015 with a journalist colleague of him, Mihaela. At that time They were working on different digital related issues (Marc for instance was focusing on the economical issues of Big Data, Mihaela more on privacy). They started attending more conferences (CPDP, re:publica, CCC..)…
The London based blog History is Made At Night recently reported that the National Government archives of the UK released Prime Minister’s Office and Cabinet files from 1989 and 1990, including discussions amongst Ministers and officials of how to clamp down on ‘Acid House’ parties: “A letter from the Home Secretary to Geoffrey Howe from 2 November…
oops excuse our downtime, we renewed the domain now. happy new year back online, the ninth year of existence for shituationism. and remember: shituationism is not ‘accept everything’ shituationism is not ‘alternative facts’ shituationism is not ‘the present in drag’ shituationism is not a myth shituationism is not hedonism shituationism stands for: radical sounds rave…
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