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27.09. – 27.10.2024 Benjamin Busch – Scanning the Horizon

Scanning the Horizon: An Immersive Archive Part I-III
Benjamin Busch

Eröffnung 27.09.2024 | 20 Uhr
Laufzeit: 27.09. – 27.10.2024

Please join us Friday evening for my solo exhibition opening at Kreuzberg Pavillon @kreuzbergpavillon. I will debut Part III of my VR work documenting queer spaces in Berlin. I warmly thank Heiko Pfreundt and Lisa Schorm for the invitation to exhibit. I also invite you to check out https://queerspaces.berlin, where I have added Kino Moviemento and expanded the interview for Monster Ronson’s with a contribution by BLEACH.

Address: Kreuzberg Pavillon, Naunynstrasse 53, 10999 Berlin
Opening: Friday, September 27, 20:00
Exhibition Dates: September 27 – October 27
For additional information, including opening times and contact information, please visit: https://kreuzbergpavillon.tumblr.com

THANK YOU everyone who has been part of this process!

CREDITS
Scanning the Horizon: An Immersive Archive, Part III, 2024
BEGiNE – Treffpunkt und Kultur für Frauen, Möbel-Olfe, and Monster Ronson’s Ichiban Karaoke
Director and Producer: Benjamin Busch
Technical Director: Vladimir Storm @vladstorm_
3D Scans: Benjamin Busch
Sound Pools: Sarah Martinus @sarahmartinus
Interviewers: Benjamin Busch, Kevin Junk @lupodoro
Interviewees: Barbara Hoyer and Manu Hoyer, BEGiNE – Treffpunkt und Kultur für Frauen @begine_kultur; Axel and Grace, Möbel-Olfe #moebelolfe; Monster Ronson and BLEACH, Monster Ronson’s Ichiban Karaoke @monsterronsons
Voice Actors: Ruco laPesto @ruco_lapesto, Mad Kate @madkate27, Mauve Rivask, Adrienne Teicher @adrienne.teicher, Marshall Vincent @marshallvincent.flac
Audio Recording and Engineering: Adrienne Teicher @adrienne.teicher, Mad Kate @madkate27, Risto Pikkarainen @risto_is_mixing
Translation: Brenton Withers @_brewith_, Lukas Christ
Funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion @senkultgz

Scanning the Horizon: An Immersive Archive, Part II, 2023
Kino Moviemento × XPOSED × Pornfilmfestival
@moviemento @xposedqueerfilmfest @pff_berlin

Scanning the Horizon: An Immersive Archive, Part I, 2022
Ficken 3000, SO36 × Gayhane, Sonntags-Club
@ficken3000official @so36_club #Gayhane @sonntags.club

#queer #queervr #vrart #vrkunst #medienkunst #mediaart #vr #lidar #laserscanning #art #berlin #benjaminbusch #scanningthehorizon #animmersivearchive

10.10.2024 Mad Kate at Lunchbox Candy Sugar Free

https://www.instagram.com/lunchboxcandy/?hl=en

It’s all the flavour with none of the additives. Lunchbox Candy – Sugar Free is a chance to get high on life as we present a jam-packed evening filled with energetic house music, intimate connection, deranged performances, sexual healing, transformative workshops and oh dancing, yes there will be dancing! We’re creating a sober experience for not only those who lead a sober lifestyle or the sober curious but to all of our community for a chance to bathe in the wonders of Lunchbox Candy without consuming alcohol or any other substances. An opportunity to connect with yourself and others, naturally. To kick off the evening on the Candy Flip floor the amazing Phoenix Chase-Meares will facilitate a movement workshop ‘How To Access The Non Fearful Body’ followed by Alvin Collantes lifting our spirits higher with ‘A Dose Of Pleasure’. Participation is optional but highly recommended but please remember spaces are limited. On The Box Floor we will have music all night long with Djs Adam Munnings, Ketia, Kim Swim and Anita Drink to keep you moving and grooving. A fire lineup of inspiring hosts / performers curated by Nancy Nutter will be sure to blow your mind and keep you entertained, gooped and gagged. Expect the unexpected, after all it’s Lunchbox Candy. Our Love Room will be open for cuties who love to cruise hosted by Lesbo Pro (House Of Steel). It’s a space for all bodies, genders and sexual orientations. Let’s celebrate sexuality without the chems. Sip a mocktail, snack on some fresh fruit and trust yourself and the process cause all we’re consuming is a damn good time. Join us October 10th at Aeden Berlin for Lunchbox Candy – Sugar Free, a sober experience open to all. Doors open at 7:30pm.

6.09. + 07.09.2024 Mad Kate at Loftas Festival Vilnius


photo Natali Arts

“my fear of pretending” at Loftas Festival Vilnius


“My Fear of Pretending” is a deeply personal and political performance that blends original music, poetry, and physicality to explore the fluidity and multiplicity of queer identities in relation to labour, the performance of identity and authenticity and the use(full)/(less)ness of performativity. By examining the queer self as an evolving process of self-making and empowerment rather than a fixed identity, the performance traverses the intimate landscape of sexuality and extends these concepts to the socio-political realm, encompassing the body as nation and community. Mad Kate, a producer, poet, and musician, weaves her field recordings with the everyday practices of her sexuality, creating sonic tapestries that resonate with the queerness of her lived experience as sex worker, as queer feminist performer, as a parent, as an activist.

with sisters fellow performers Federica Dauri @federicadauri ReveRso @rolereverso thanks to David @deivydas_valenta @loftasfest

31.08.2024 / HYENAZ at SLINT party at LAB.oratory

FLINTA reclaim LAB.oratory

31.08.2024

https://www.lab-oratory.de/flinta-party

25.08.2024 / Bonaparte at Kampnagel SommerFestival

Upcoming Gigs

25 August 2024 Hamburg, Germany – Kampnagel Sommerfestival Tickets

Past Summer Festivals

  • 26 Jul 2024 Breitenbach am Herzberg, Germany ⋅ Burg Herzberg Festival Tickets
  • 27 Jul 2024 Megesheim, Germany ⋅ Der Krater Bebt Open Air Tickets
  • 28 Jul 2024 Trebur, Germany ⋅ Trebur Open Air Tickets

Mad Kate in The Quiet and the Riot Tour 2024

photos by George DuBose

photos by Christian Holle

photos by Désirée Pezzetta LAUTdotDE

1 June 2024 films of Marit Östberg at Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival 2024

Tom of Finland Foundation presents the
Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival 2024
Art Speaks Through Us

About the Festival

The Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival is the world’s largest erotic art fair. The first installment of the Festival was held in 1993. Since then, it has grown into a truly global affair, bringing Queer artists and art lovers together from all over the world. 

The Festival is Tom of Finland Foundation’s yearly programming effort to bring together artists, galleries and patrons from all over the globe in a socially friendly setting to network as well as buy and sell works. It serves as the biggest public showcase for the Foundation and its mission to protect, preserve, and promote Queer and erotic art. 

As the Foundation celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, the Festival will be held in London, Berlin and Los Angeles. Past festivals have included renowned artists such as Pol Anglada, Rick Castro, Marc DeBauch, Rubén Esparza, Markus Hoffmann-Achenbach, Łukasz Leja, Matt Pagett, Pâme, Sal Salandra, Stuart Sanford, Suzanne Shifflett, and Hector Silva. The Festival has been held in various places from TOM House (the Foundation’s headquarters), Second Home London & Hollywood, prideART at The Knast in Berlin, The Standard Hotel London and Soho Warehouse in Los Angeles. 

The Los Angeles installment also features current artists from the Artist-in-Residence program, which is a crucial part of the Foundations artist education efforts. 

In 2023, the Festivals in Berlin, London and Los Angeles collectively gathered together over 1,800 visitors, 80 artists, vendors and galleries from the United States, Mexico, Finland, United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, France, Spain and Ireland.

Berlin is curated by Richard Villani, Eric Le Rouge & Konstantinos Menelaou.

Saila

Fucking Imagination

quietyourmind

“quiet your mind and open your heart, open your heart. open your heart. calm your mind down so you can open your heart, Im not going to say it again.
dance well so you can leave it all there. leave it all there. leave it all there. dance hard so you can leave it all there. soft with yourself and the pain

Alexis Pauline Gumbs. DUB Finding Ceremony

20-21.08.2024 / PEACHES at OFF DAYS FESTIVAL Berlin / Hamburg

20 August 2024 PEACHES BERLIN

21 August 2024 PEACHES Hamburg