Club culture creates safe spaces for living queer sexuality, fosters multimedia experimentation with music, video art and performance and then and now can be labs for new social ideas. The punk and new wave scene in 1980s Ljubljana was one inspiring example. And to this day, party collectives in Ukraine, Georgia and Eastern Germany dance in resistance against authoritarianism in their respective contexts while maintaining diapora communities abroad. Slovenian video artist and philosopher Marina Gržinić revisits the 1980s Ljubljana scene and foregrounds its relevance today. Berlin based DJ collective Bass Resistance is a Ukrainian „artists collective with a mission“, in opposition to the war and oppression. The Entropie Festival south of Berlin in Brandenburg creates a space for alternative art, celebration, and creative living — far from capitalist logic and commercial exploitation, providing emancipatory subculture for local youths and supporting democracy building initiatives.Films and DJ sets round off the program.

Time: February 13, 6 pm-10 pm
Venue: Stadtwerkstatt next to Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 11/13, 10178 Berlin at Alexanderplatz