Skankstasy🦋🍉🌚

In her (spring) element🪻🧞‍♀️Find me at these cute affairs in the coming weeks: April 19: Basic Needs @ @blue_velvet_berlin 🫦 May 07: Skankstasy Hour @ @refugeworldwide ☁️ May X: mix drop for @garagegirls.berlin 🍭 May 17: Riot @ secret location 🧨 June 2: @gegenberlin @ @rso.berlin ⚔️ June 8: @lllecken does @queer.pool , @suedpol_hamburg 💦 June 29: Leck My Buttons: @lllecken & @buttonsberlin 8 Year Anniversary 🐙 📸 @collectiveanxiety

Rave ist rauschhaft, redundant, vergänglich, verschwenderisch, darüber zu schreiben fast ein Widerspruch in sich. Kein Wunder, dass daraus nie ein großes Genre erwuchs, Irvine Welshs rave novel «Trainspotting» in Danny Boyles Filmversion viel bekannter ist und Rainald Goetz’ «Rave» nicht zu seinen bedeutendsten Werken zählt (und auch nicht zu seinen besten).    Inzwischen ist überall vom Raven die Rede, ob in mehrteiligen Dokus, latent widersinnigen Fotoausstellungen («No photos on the dancefloor») oder im Frankfurter Museum für elektronische Musik. Ein untrügliches Zeichen der Musealisierung?   Der lange Sommer der Anarchie um 1989, den manch einer schon mit der Loveparade auf dem Irrweg der Institutionalisierung sah, ist long gone. Und dennoch haben Freiräume überlebt, mit denen sich gerade noch so authentisch raven lässt. Und wo so offen und reflektiert darüber geschrieben werden kann, wie es McKenzie Wark in «Raving» und Hannah Baer in «Dance Until the World Ends» tun.   Wanda Vrasti, Politikwissenschaftlerin und erfahrene Kuratorin expansiver Rave Events, nimmt die beiden herausragenden Bausteine einer kritischen Theorie des Ravens zum Anlass einer so stilistisch wie politisch versierten Analyse der ehemaligen Subkultur und seiner Einbettung in die düstere politische Ökonomie unserer Zeit:    «The cultural form that the reviewed authors try to theorize is not the DIY rave of the disaffected factory, which still exists, though much reduced, at the margins of nightlife visibility, but the club experience with rave characteristics. To use raving and clubbing interchangeably – how blasphemous of me! But in a rentier economy where real Freiraum is hard to come by, even raving gets reduced to a portable aesthetics that can be applied anywhere—the club, the museum, the abandoned work site.»   Lest Wandas Review für kurze Zeit unpaywalled auf blnreview.de, und unterstützt uns weiterhin, indem ihr unsere Texte lest, teilt, darüber diskutiert und – nicht vergessen! – ein Abo abschließt. @wandagaimes @mckenziewark3000 @malefragility @momem.frankfurt @dukeuniversitypress @artforum @lllecken #rave blnreview.de/abo

YEEEEEHAW 👋🏽👋🏽👋🏽 The weekend is so closeeee and to get you in the mood we have our next instalment of Garage Girls FM coming from Berlin based DJ and mama of queer party Lecken, welkommen Skankstasy 😍❤️✨ Skankstasy is a bass and polyrhythm enthusiast. Moved by everything that grooves, she likes to stitch together different rhythms and soundscapes with an aspiration to bring the dance one step closer to an anarcho-queer skanking floor with a deeper appreciation for the sonic roots that make bodies move 😎😎😎 She also made some big waves at WHOLE Festival last year where she slammed out a bass heavy set on the Arena Stage (first time hearing garage at WHOLE!!!) so we obviously had to invite her to throw down some tunes for our mix series ‼️‼️‼️ Link in our bio! Check ittttt 🚀🚀🚀

Assorted some slinky jazzy garage for the III installment of Skankstasy Hour to rope you into a state of syncopated flow 🦋🍃 Some classics and many absolute faves on this one along with some newer digs. Hope it tickles your fancy for the universe of shuffle & swing! 🥁 (link to my SC in bio)

Today we welcome an old friend of Warning to our mix series - give it up for Skankstasy (aka @wandagaimes ), a long-time member of Berlin’s Undercommons, known as a tireless rave agitator for @lllecken , the queer-feminist party series she co-founded in 2016, but also as a writer, curator and, of course, DJ. We are delighted to share her hour-long excursion into everything that grooves, from grime and juke to bass and progressive bangers. For more well curated goodness, be sure to check out her @refugeworldwide resident show „Skankstasy Hour“ 👌 1️⃣📸@vincenttiberius 2️⃣ Guim feat. Highkili [Discos Marcianos] - 3am & Arma - Move Tool [self-released] 3️⃣ Paul Laurens - Tribal Behavior [self-released] 4️⃣ Duty Paid - Make That [self-released] & QNOE & Mezer - Bassface [self-released] 5️⃣ Indigo Plateaux - High [unreleased] & 131bpm - Impulse [Crazed Behaviour] 6️⃣ HomeSick - Rune Faucet [self-released]

Keeping with the Skankstasy Hour mission to take you through my various shades of groove, I recorded my slowest mix yet: a slow foam of rap, ragga and dub roots featuring some of my faves. Let this 70bpm vibe groove your soft and melancholic moods! Tracklist on my SoundCloud 💋

🕳️🌹🕳️🌹🕳️🌹🕳️🌹🕳️🌹🕳️ Varoufakis interviewed by @jacobinmag , “Are we transitionism from capitalism to silicon serfdom?” February 2024

📌Slideshow II out of III from my MA thesis-turned-zine, Junkie Drives: A Lacanian Psychoanalysis of D*** Consumption. To grab a copy, head to @ivallansbooks or check my Big Cartel shop linked in bio. Further readings: Keith Humphreys, Addiction: A Very Short Introduction. (Oxford University Press, 2023) Patt Denning and Jeannie Little, Practicing Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: An Alternative Approach to Addiction. Guilford, 2011. Patt Denning and Jeannie Little. Over the Influence: The Harm Reduction Guide to Controlling Your D*** and Alcohol Use. The Guilford Press, 2017. (free online) Gabrielle Glaeser. “The Irrationality of AA.” The Atlantic, 2015.

JUNKIE DRIVES is out today. Lecken rave maker and clinical psychologist, @wandagaimes , publishes her zine about a Lacanian psychoanalysis of d**g consumption. Written in an accessible language, for clinical or personal use, it looks at what non-normativing psychoanalysis can teach us about the enjoyment of d**gs and the human struggle with pleasure, and what it might mean to live well with d**gs, that is, a self-determined, desirous, and multi-faceted life where we don’t hand over more agency to drugs than we’d like to. Listen to her talk about Junkie Drives with @sweetappledj on @refugeworldwide . And check Wanda’s link 🌳 & highlights for where to get a digital or print copy of the booklet (60 pages, A5 format). Design by @irishabhjain

📌 Excerpts I: Lacanians on Drugs From “JUNKIE DRIVES: A Lacanian Psychoanalysis of Drug Consumption” out next week

Bouncing between my Novara Media @ WHOLE dream-come-true and a backstage fan pic with commie Owen Jones, I popped over to the big boy arena at the festi for 2 hours of frantic groove & UK skank and lived to tell the tale of that most epic day. Memories are now up on the sound cloud. Tune in 🤌🍭

It was an absolute highlight to host some of my Left icons at @whole.festival TALKS 2023. Rivkah Brown, Moya Lothian-McLean, and Michael Walker from @novaramedia —a UK-based grassroots, alternative media platform—plus their comrade, Amrou Al-Khadi, joined a roundtable discussion on the “Limits and Promises of Identity Politics”. A heated topic of conversation esp. in queer nightlife organizing. I felt it was important to invite these Marxism-trained leftists to speak about identity politics because what I believe a democratic socialist perspective—as they practice at Novara—can contribute to the topic is: to take seriously the importance of culture, identity, and affect for politics, while insisting that to build a more just world requires (to some extent) that we also to rise above these temporary and contingent political divisions to craft an internationalist multi-racial-poly-gendered-cross-cultural vision of liberation and emancipation… A politics for everyone. No one is free until everyone is free, right?! It is only by moving past the ego of identity reductionism towards a solidarity *with* and *across* difference that we (the 99%) can consolidate power and have an impact over the 1%. My hope was that this talk (which was as powerful and punchy as I could have hoped for!) might offer a glimpse into how we can better use identity & difference for a Left objective (rather than for a moralizing virtue politics w conservative aims). I also attach 5 further readings for those interested in learning more about this line of thinking. For more questions about the WHOLE TALKS program, drop me a line at wanda [at] wholefestival [dot] com And I warmly encourage you to follow @novaramedia ’s work!