»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«