Here we provide a shortened translation of a statement by the Berlin DJ Elliver. It is about the Buttons Crew who recently announced that they will not work anymore with About Blank Club, because the club supposedly is “anti-Deutsch” and “in favor of all actions of the Israeli state”, which is a lie. The claims…
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…
Local news claim there was a “gigantic party” last night in Hasenheide park in Berlin. And that all hygenic regulations were ignored by 5000 guests, and that light systems were installed. Which is interesting to hear if you compare it with what really happened. We were passing by this alleged “Riesenparty” last night at 11…
The United We Stream campaign by the Club Commission Berlin and Reclaim Club Culture together with ARTE established a streaming format and fundraiser, which many celebrated as representing and supporting club culture in times when clubs are closed due to Corona. Early on they decided against big sponsors, we guess in order not to be…
This is the translated version of an older text about Mensch Meier club in Berlin, German version below. The same snouts that were biting your face in About Blank club, sitting between runway-floor and toilet-ressort, are now sitting in the corner floor in the floor ressort – an endless history in which you always find…
The TV series Babylon Berlin, which portrays the criminal, economical and political milieus of Berlin at the end of the 1920s, uses abstract cinema from the early 1920s for its closing credits. The material is by Walter Ruttmann, who also showed it in 1925 in a film matinee of the socialist Novembergruppe called “Der absolute…
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.
In Berlin this weekend 27 Clubs, funded each 3000 euros by the Federal Foreign Office, are celebrating the Fall of the Wall as well as Freedom of Movement in Europe. Of course this has generated debates, for example the artist Elliver has criticized this as a shameful propaganda event and also stated early in April:…
Juxtaposition: RMB City vs. Bananas on a Boat. Watch on Youtube Doubler. What does it mean? This does not mean anything yet, it is a note in the form of a juxtaposition. But of course it has meaning to you when you watch it? Starting from the visual similarities, the difference between the videos is interesting.…
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…
German version below The cover of Bianca Ludewig‘s book shows a T-shirt at the hardcore-techno parade called “Fuckparade” in Berlin. The t-shirt says “200 BPM”, i.e. 200 beats per minute. Music that many people find pleasant is in the range of 100 to 120 BPM, i.e. 2 beats per second, with the wearer of the…
The shituationist tendency of the global general sublation (aka the Shituationist Institute) runs a website on electronic dance music, contemporary art and critical theory for about 10 years. Our basic position is: we don’t think that a life only full of techno parties is a joyful life but we trust in the power of art…
There is no history we could write outside the concrete devastated desert of the financialized mechanics of gaze and groin, of grunts and grins. The smoke of a million burned cigarettes never sets on the plains of freedom of the dirty floor, the dirty ceiling and the very dirty four walls of the favorite bar…
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…
A commercial wholetrain, with an adhesive design of the urban artist Shepard ‘Obey’ Fairey, who recycles socialist movement graphics from the past for his succesful imagery. “Unstoppable”: The powerful arrogance of urban art in alliance with money. This is an advertising for a semi-private museum about urban art in Berlin: Urban Nation. The museum is…
Between all the content and all the critique and all the performativity and transmediality, between the comfort and discomfort, the noise and the tension, two experiences may serve very well to illustrate Transmediale festival 2018 in Berlin. One would be Jonathan Beller trying to recuperate the blockchain euphoria from the capitalist tech bros in the…
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…
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