»Nicht erst seitdem ein Leben und Tanzen im
›Techno-Metaversum‹ von queeren Elfenwesen und
alienesken Cybernymphen in einer Art Techno-Cos-
Play zelebriert wird, gilt der Rave als Ort, um die
Fesseln heteronormativer und binärer Genderkonzepte
abzustreifen. Mit ihren Wurzeln im Afrofuturismus,
ihrem Kampf gegen Verdrängung und Vereinnahmung und
ihrer Faszination für Technologie ebenso wie für
Transzendenz; mit ihrer ausgesprochenen Sehnsucht
nach einer neuen, sicheren, emanzipatorischen und
antikolonialen Heimat ›outa space‹ oder ›under
water‹ verkörpern House, Trance und die Techno-
kultur das Potential einer diversen und fluiden
Sphäre für grenzenlose Identitätskonstruktionen.«
So der Ankündigungstext von TECHNO | XENO | GENDER – dem Beitrag der Ausstellung TECHNO WORLDS zur Museumsnacht am 8.6.2024 in der wundervollen Dresdener robotron-Kantine.
Das Set-up der Veranstaltung:
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- DJ-Set GOLDIE (Resident objekt klein a, Dresden)
- LECTURE Prof. Dr. Anna Schürmer (HfMT Köln)
- PANEL TALK mit Ulla Heinrich (Missy Magazin), Amina Adamu aka Goldie (Dj /Booker) und Melissa Kolukisagil (İÇ İÇE Festival).
- Konzert CHICKS ON SPEED
Und hier das Set-up meiner Lecture:
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- #0 INTRO: Set-up
- #1 HETEROTOPIEN: Verwirklichte Utopien
- #2 DE|HUMAN: Zurück in die Zukunft(smusik)
- #3 QUEERDENKEN: Binaritäten dekonstruieren
- #4 BLACK TO QUEER FUTURES: Diverse Zukunftsmusik
- #5 OUTRO: Futuring Queertopia
A new sample; a new loop. Intensity. The music wraps
itself around you, takes you, and constantly brings
you to the edge, a reminder of our capacity for
feeling, […] of the erotic […]; the climax or musical
›money shot‹ comes when this limit is reached or
crossed. […] But techno is much kinkier than that.
This is a music of endurance, of going and going and
going. […] Edging […] Sonic edge play: dance music
that takes you to a peak, puts you on the edge, and
holds you captive in the pleasure over and over for
extended periods of time. The final release occurs
when the night ends. […] Techno suggests a kind of
sonic brutalism, a music to riot with […], the high-
octane Black frequencies of techno becoming an
immersion in insurrection – frequencies that inflict
an insurrectionary voltage. […] Outside: noise,
disorder. Inside: sweat, erotic release, other
beginnings. Refusal. For queer-of-color life, these
practices of refusal work as a fire alarm system that
signals the state of emergency […], a sonic resistance
to life as contents under pressure. […] Techno, the
sound of queer insurrection, this dramaturgy of
discontent, needs to be loud to make sense because it
is music that happens to you, mediated by speaker
towers and subwoofers. But techno is perhaps less
about puncture or discomfort and more about immediacy
— the immediacy of sweating, feeling, vibrating,
touching, dancing. […] Rave is the temporary autonomous
zone where we create spaces of release—not utopia, not
freedom, not safety. Release. The soundtrack of this
insurrectionist refusal highlights the discontent, or
disgust, with the here and now, using sound to usher in
a demand for something, anything that is not the holding
pattern of a devastated present. […] [T]echno as queer
insurrectionist sonic, made Black again by Black,
queer, trans, and femme DJs and party crews, is the
soundtrack to our emergency demand for something else.
madison moore:»A (Queer) Techno Manifesto«