Club Culture

Warmup Unsafe+Sounds Festival Vienna: September 1st 2022 @ Rhiz – DeForrest Brown, Blaq Hammer and more

First Struma+Iodine gig after the summer break comes as a co-production with Unsafe+Sounds Festival, that will happen this year from 23.9.-1.10.2022 at Werk and Zacherlfabrik in Vienna! For the first time Unsafe+Sounds will have a discourse program and I had the pleasure of curating it. More infos coming soon! More infos on the warmup event Read the full article… »»»»

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12th of November 2021, Contrapunkt – Club Against Reality @ P.M.K. Innsbruck: Utopia-Apocalypse-Futurism

In the planning stages since 2019, it is finally possible to hold this event: A night of Gabber, Breakcore and Happy Hardcore! I will speak about my book “Utopia and Apocalypse in Pop Music” and Riccardo Balli will talk about his book “Sbrang Gabba Gang”, for which I also wrote the foreword at the time. Read the full article… »»»»

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Music Austria Interview on Club Culture: “We all have a lot of pressure in our everyday lives. The club helps us to deal with this”

mica-interview with BIANCA LUDEWIG 28 June 2021 BIANCA LUDEWIG has been researching club culture as a cultural anthropologist for years. She talks to Stefan Niederwieser about utopias, a communal love of music, stories that are missing and hard work at female:pressure to fight misconceptions. Heart of Noise 2014 / Lumisokea (c) Bianca Ludewig   Is Read the full article… »»»»

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Anthology “New Age of Electronic Dance Music and Club Culture” Out Now!

I am happy to announce that “our” collective volume edited by Anita Jóri and Martin Lücke has been published. For everybody, but especially for them it was a long way to go. The book was published with Springer what I am not too happy about as authors loose most if not all of their rights Read the full article… »»»»

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Harder. Better. Faster. Stronger? Politics of Contemporary Techno. Panel @ Co]l[ab Vienna, February 13th 2020

I am participating in a discussion on how music spaces and activists can deal with a growing commercialization and cultural gentrification. It is gonna happen in a new space in 15th district, can’t wait to see it – more info towards the end… Harder. Better. Faster. Stronger? Politics of Contemporary Techno & Club Culture in Read the full article… »»»»

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3hd Festival – Fluid Worlds, Berlin 22nd-27th of October 2019

This year Berlins 3hd Festival is celebrating it’s 5th anniversary! 3hd Festival is organized by Berlin-based the interdisciplinary platform Creamcake since 2015. I will join a panel talk at the festival on thursday 24th with the topic E-scape. Breaking the Trance at Postscheckamt (Hallesches Ufer 40–60). More details here Here is the festivals announcement text Read the full article… »»»»

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celebrating 20 years of female:pressure @ Mensch Meier Berlin, November 9th 2018

!!This event is open for every sex/gender!! female:pressure* is celebrating its 20 year anniversary! We are working at full speed, to compile a weekend of celebrating, listening, learning and exchanging. In the foreground of course other will be first-class music and art contributed by the artists of our network, as well as the development of Read the full article… »»»»

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Unsafe + Sounds Festival, 2nd – 13th of October 2018 Vienna

Unsafe + Sounds Festival for Adventurous Electronic Music + Arts  Unsafe+Sounds wants to investigate the interrelatedness of the fundamental changes in our environment and aesthetics, and look for apt noises for our disturbed existence. Under the banner of “Brutal Times”, we gather workers from the musical frontiers to find some medication for this pathological time. Read the full article… »»»»

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WiseUp 08/2017 Wiener Festwochen – Performeum:Hyperreality:Hysteria

<iframe width=”100%” height=”400″ src=”https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?feed=%2FWiseupRadioshow%2Fwiseup-082017-wiener-festwochen-performeumhyperrealityhysteria%2F” frameborder=”0″ ></iframe> Wiseupradio explores another club culture avantgarde festival called Hyperreality. HR is part of the Wiener Festwochen, which are happening since the 1950s and are showcasing cutting edge cultural productions in music, theatre or fine arts. This year a new creative director & curatorial team started their work. Postcolonial approaches Read the full article… »»»»

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female:pressure & Meetup Berlin present: Subcultures Under Pr€$$ur€, 14.7.2017 @ AU Wien

14.7.2017, 20Uhr @ AU Wien: http://www.viennau.com/ +++ Subcultures Under Pr€$$ur€ +++ Electric Indigo (female:pressure), Shilla Strelka (Struma + Iodine), Aiko Okamoto (Meetup Berlin), Susi Rogenhofer aka Sweet Susie (Gemeindebautöne, femous.at, Dub Club Vienna), Hicran Ergen (Gravité), Hannah Christ (femdex) femdex.net, Marlene Engel (BLISS / Wiener Festwochen – Hyperreality) and more           Read the full article… »»»»

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HEROINES OF SOUND – FESTIVAL 2017 7–9 Juli 2017

HEROINES OF SOUND – FESTIVAL 2017 7–9 Juli 2017 Radialsystem, Holzmarktstraße 33, 10243 Berlin Curated by Bettina Wackernagel, Mo Loschelder and Sabine Sanio, the Heroines of Sound Festival, now in its forth year, presents past and present heroines of electronic sound. In concerts, performances, videos and discussion events, early female electronic music is showcased together Read the full article… »»»»

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WiseUp! 04/2016 Zweikommasieben

(Deutsch) WiseUp im Gespräch mit zweikommasieben – Magazin für Klubkultur. Zweikommasieben ist ein Magazin aus der Schweiz, das seit 2011 zeitgenössischer Klubkultur dokumentiert. Dabei werden Künstler interviewt, Essays und Kolumnen geschrieben sowie Fotografien, Illustrationen und Grafiken kreiert. Zudem veranstaltet zweikommasieben regelmässig in verschiedenen Städten Konzerte, Partys, Klubnächte, Matineen oder Raves. »»»»

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