“But why go visit a museum? How about going back into the cave instead?” (TRICKY DISCO). The museumization of techno, the demise of clubs as places of resistance: Memories of the Omen in Frankfurt or the Pacific Club in La Défense reveal structural power relations in terms of colonial appropriation strategies, racist practices, capitalist constraints – until today. Where can bodies still sway together in civil disobedience? The closing performance CINEMOON transforms the cinema space into a hallucinatory cave of light and invites us to play with our perception. (Jessica Manstetten)
TRICKY DISCO traces the techno and house movement in Frankfurt and Berlin in a biographical way. The museumization of the subculture by German institutions appears as a questionable appropriation and colonial strategy.… >>>
"This eternal resistance is older than imagination: better not to leave anything. Neither leaves nor furniture. Neither things nor children.“ After a period of isolation, far away from each other, a group of young people practice a kind of meditation in order to reach absolute happiness through the vibration of their bodies with the earth.… >>>
In 1979, the Pacific Club was opened in the basement of La Défense – the business district of Paris. It was the first nightclub for Arabs from the suburbs; a parallel world of dance, sweat, young loves, and one-night utopias. Azedine, 17 years old at the time, tells us the forgotten story of this club and of this generation who dreamed of integrating into France but who soon came face to face with racism, the AIDS epidemic, and heroin.… >>>
CINEMOON illuminates the cinema cave.
Media-reflexive as “The Flicker” (Tony Conrads), the perceptual dispositive opens up and we see cinematographic modernity itself. Where the distinction between perception and deception blurs, it becomes tangible. We see what deceives us, how perceptual hallucinations are created from light.
CINEMOON extends the radically reduced pre-semantic iteration light-dark-light-dark by a circular rotation – loops forward, so to speak. And: music.
Instructions for the audience: As soon as the moon peeks out from behind the clouds, please carefully place a hand of your choice on the shoulder of your companion.
Concept: Nicolaas Schmidt, Anne Döring
Realization: Nicolaas Schmidt