Photo: Neda (by L. Wassmann), H. Yaghoobifarah (G. Nebieridze), Y. Duman (by I. Aamri)
The history of club culture has been political since the first stone was thrown in the Stonewall riots. Clubs have historically provided spaces for queer people, people of colour, and socially disadvantaged people. But is any of that left at all? »Pop Hayat« curator Yeşim Duman, herself a DJ and event organiser, will discuss contemporary club politics from the angles of class, race, and gender together with journalist and DJ Hengameh Yaghoobifarah and artist, producer, organiser, and DJ Neda Sanai aka Nedalot. The discussion will also touch on the cis-heterosexual mainstream interest in queer party culture and on how visibility and security can be mediated on the dancefloor. Can club culture be the glue that holds queer communities together? How underground does it have to be in order to do that? The last stone is definitely yet to be thrown.
»Pop-Hayat«
»Hayat« means life. In this programme, curator Yeşim Duman, a Golden Pudel resident, ByteFM presenter, female:pressure activist, and organiser of the two event series bubble and Erdogay, creates a »bubble« in which for the liveliness of her magic, and of her questions, to unfold. In this project, Duman, who helped plan some of the events in Pop-Kultur's programme last year, condenses her involvement in the queer club scene and the post-migrant discourse, bringing artists from various genders and races onto the stages and behind the scenes of the Pop-Kultur Festival. It will include the film »Shakedown«, made exclusively by and for the black lesbian community in LA, discussions with the director Leilah Weinraub, the author Fatma Aydemir, the rapper Lady Bitch Ray, MISSY journalist Hengameh Yaghoobifarah, and the artist Ebru Düzgün aka Ebow, as well as and Nachwuchs workshops on gender equality with Lady Bitch Ray and Caren Miesenberger. Hayat, life, should be enjoyed in all of its facets. And where is that more likely to happen than in the installation »T-Unlimited - the Pop Hayat Çaystube« by the Berlin artist Nuray Demir?