She's Drunk is the pseudonym of French producer David Monnin, whose bass-heavy releases stumble along the extremities of techno and of UK traditions like dubstep and funky. The moniker alone is enough to cause confusion, but the music helps even more to that end—Monnin himself says he doesn’t follow any particular formula, and his EPs for Leonizer and Berlin’s Through My Speakers clique attest to that. What he does follow, though, are influences that extend beyond Western tradition. For his Border Movement residency, She's Drunk went to Colombo, Sri Lanka and New Delhi, India, and above all sought out collaborations with local artists. He did this less in an effort to find extra bits of inspiration and more out of an interest in forming sustainable relationships across all kinds of borders. Anything else would be too confusing.
She's Drunk on Facebook »Border Movement«Pop culture thrives on cultural exchange, and Pop-Kultur has dedicated itself to that exchange. Every now and then, though, we still need a bit of help, and Border Movement is the ideal resource. The Berlin-based platform, supported by the Goethe Institut since 2012, sees itself as a »cultural catalyst« and, as such, values interactions—especially those between Germany and the South Asia region. At Club 23, on two different festival days, the activist and journalist Sarah Chawla (New Delhi, India) and the musician Mohammed Manal (Malé, Maldives) among others will represent the bandwidth of Border Movement’s work with concerts, DJ sets, and talks. The Berlin artists Anika, Andreas Spechtl, Dan Bodan, and most recently She's Drunk have all participated in the exchange programme, and now the Pakistani artist Natasha Humera Ejaz aka Stupid Happiness Theory will come to the German capital from Islamabad. We should and must mix things up!