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Category: Projects
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26 November 2025 – Sissy Smut
photos by Adrienne Teicher Sissy Smut returns to Volksbühne for its 6th edition, presented by Matt Lambert. A night of queer cinema and smut soundtracked by live readings and performances by Liz Rosenfeld, Ben Miller, Mad Kate and Bleach & The Bumholes.
Aftershow with BEARCAT
Merch by B Merch and Trailers4Trannies
Pop-up book shop and Sissy merch by Keller Kreuzberg with book signings by Ben Miller, Liz Rosenfeld and Matt Lambert
Special thanks to the support of: Christopher Lee Legacy Project, Arsenal, Gladstone Gallery, Pink Label and Bruce LaBruce
Doors to the foyers: 7:30PM
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6 November – Mad Kate – The Tide ‘Stage and Bedroom’ Record Release Show
Mad Kate – The Tide ‘Stage and Bedroom’ Record Release Show with support: Ratas
Mad Kate | The Tide – STAGE and BEDROOM record release show mixes queer performance, rage, care, heart, cunt, gut and punk rock After five years in the making, Mad Kate the Tide emerge with their second studio LP, Stage and Bedroom, which reflects the complex conditions of labour and care, the very ones they lived through in order to finally give birth to the work. These songs and performances are about freelance WORK, the hustle, and how we are connected as laborers in capitalism to the mechanisms of WAR. Its also about the sexualized body in and out of sex work — what we do in the bedroom and what we do on the world stage … and why our bodies are always instruments of power in the bed and in the streets and in the world
photos above by Aimé Dabbadie / insta @emptymindscanfillagain
Mad Kate | The Tide is a post-punk conceptual performance project featuring Jacopo Bertacco aka The Tide on guitar, loops, and electronics, Mad Kate on vocals, poetry, contact mics, and performance, and Sara Neidorf on drums. Rooted in conceptual inquiry and text-based explorations, Mad Kate | The Tide weaves dynamic sonic landscapes of punk, acoustic folk, psychedelic rock, and spoken word. Their performances blend raw honesty with darkly provocative movement and performance art, designed to challenge and stir audiences.
In their first work – an album – a book – and performance – ALIVE:ness, they explore questions that permeate all their projects: To what extent are we truly present in each other’s lives—physically, emotionally, electronically, and even beyond life and death—within a landscape of virtual interaction and shifting identities? How do we define presence when our very existence is shaped by the way we engage both physically and digitally with those closest to us? What does it mean to queer identity in a globalized world, not only as an act of self-expression but as a strategy for community building and solidarity? These questions emerge in the sweaty bodies of the club
The evening will open with the juiciest band in town RATAS Shouty, sexy and a bit silly, combine them all in a post-punk feminist sound. Think Riot Grrrl meets Midwest Emo with a sprinkle of Punk.
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7 August – PUNX N KWEENS at Neue Zukunft
Things are getting warmer in the Punx n Kweenz universe
Fantasticore Productions Presents … Punx N Kweens Summer of Love Special
We are less than a month away from our summer of love special with duets and kweenz you have never yet experienced! Lucid summer day dreams and a whole lot of punk rock!!!!! Not only full cast of your favorite punxnkweenz members but even MORE NEW BAND MEMBERS and very special guests!
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HYENAZ Entanglements : Virtual Art House / CultureHub Extra Live
https://www.virtualarthouse.com/virtual-art-house
”HYENAZ: ENTANGLEMENT” is a VR experience that invites participants to explore their own entanglements with objects, landscapes, and extractive processes, with HYENAZ as their guide. In a fantastical environment—immersed in soundscapes and textures recorded through HYENAZ’s slow-movement research project in sites of environmental extraction—objects reveal their animacy, and participants are invited to engage in speculative storytelling to deepen their understanding of interrelationality.
(Multichannel spatial audio, series of videos, interactive elements)
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16 April 2025 – Mathematics of Work – Drag Resources Action Group Launch – Sophiensaele, Berlin
16.04 – Drag Resources Action Group Launch Party at Sophiensaele
At the Drag Resources Action Group Launch Party we launched our new guidelines for fair labor. The Drag Resources Action Group (D.R.A.G.) Berlin is a collective of drag artists and adjacent genres*, including performers, bookers, and event organizers, who have been advocating since October 2023 for better working conditions in one of the lowest-paid, most precarious, and socially vulnerable performance genres.
We have created these guidelines to establish basic standards and fair working conditions. To achieve this, we collaborate with drag venues, organizers, associations, and performers to build a better drag scene for everyone.
Mad Kate – The Mathematics of Work
Photo: Mayra Wallraff Mathematics. If my average gig is €50, thats 8 gigs to make rent. 30 days in a month, that’s 720 hours. Sleep 6 hours a night, though I know I need 8 to be sane— still that’s 180 hours a month
asleep. 720 hours minus 180 thats 540. 8 hours per performance, 1 for getting there, 1 for sound check, 1 for makeup, 1 for getting into costume, 1 for a pre-performance stretch, 1 for food, 1 for
the actual performance and 1 to pack down — for 8 gigs — that’s 64. So 540 hours minus 64 equals 476 hours left in the month. Per performance I need: 8 times 8 hours for 8 concepts. Thats 8 times 8 hours for 8 costumes, 4 hours times 8 musical tracks, 4 times 8 performances of absolute minimal rehearsal time That’s 192 hours of preparation. Bare minimum. 476 minus 192 equals 284. Then I’ve got an hour each performance for writing my bills — that’s 8 hours. Remind them again. Promotion. Promote myself, promote the show — that’s 2 hours per show, let’s say, so that’s 16
hours. That’s 260 hours left. Eat 3 meals a day, take as little time as possible, I should either eat out (faster) or cook (slightly longer, costs less). Go to the shop. That would be 3 times 30 equals 90 meals. 15 minutes for buying or preparing food, 15 minutes for eating. 30 minutes times 90 meals equals 45 hours.
That’s 215 hours left. There’s about 4 hours per month to go shopping — that’s 211. My child, care split between 3 coparents? That’s 10 days a month. 1 hour to school, 1 hour for pickup, 2 hours to spend with them on reading, appointments, or studying — that’s 40 waking hours. That’s 171 hours left. Exercise! An average of 30 minutes a day — another 15 hours. That’s 156 hours left. But what about a doctor’s appointment or therapy — 2 maybe 4 fours. But thats just my rent. I need €150 for KSK, €200 for food, €50 for costumes. Thats another €400 if I live off €800. Sure. Minimal. Take a day job, 40 hours at €10 an hour — I’ve still got 110 hours per month. That’s an extra 3.6 hours a day I haven’t yet allocated. That’s to use for freetime — like seeing friends or seeing a gig or being an activist or just getting a sleep-in or putting my child to bed or. I don’t know. It’s all quite possible. But I can’t take 1 flight home. And I can’t have 1 emergency. I can have 0 things happen to me. And I can’t have 1 thing happen to my child. I will be strict about everything. Buy nothing. Buy nothing day and buy nothing every day nothing day. Mathematics.
Photos by Mayra Wallraff
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11-12 April 2025 Athens International Video Poetry Festival
International Video Poetry Festival celebrates twelve years of creative collaboration with more than 2000 artists from 85 countries in general, a world of poetic visions for the benefit of humanity. Poetry, cinema, music and spoken word come together to communicate the inspiration, dreams, ideas and hopes of all of us. This year the festival hosts significant artists such as Capétte, Amanda Shea, J.Chambers and Mad Kate, among other top international performers of the spoken word scene.
Organized by:
+The Institute [for Experimental Arts]Supported by:
Void Network
Film Poetry- Digital Platform
Moving Poems
photo: photos by Institute for Experimental Arts – Nick Margiolis 
photo: photos by Institute for Experimental Arts – Nick Margiolis 
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27 March 2025 – Mad Kate – Come Out Cocoon – House of Lunacy
27.03 Wilde Renate
HOUSE OF LUNACY
From the creative minds of Bad Bruises and the House of Red Doors.
House of Lunacy is an adult playground for the senses, a sex positive space with consent and comfort at it’s principle core.
A warren of Art, Theatre and Performances from Berlins most creative souls.
Set over 4 floors of the infamous Renate Club, House of Lunacy creates a lovers Labyrinth for all to explore and ‘get lost and find themselves’ in. No experience is the same.
We are a LGBTQ+ space and we do not tolerate any forms of discrimination or Homophobia.
House of Lunacy has a strict dress code and door policy. Each event is created with a creative theme in mind for guests to explore with their clothes, costumes and bodies. This is not negotiable and we expect all who jump into this world to join in. This is to enhance everyones experience and to truly create a new adventurous world of love and freedom.
photos by PAIKOV
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Signals
Dates
11-13 April 2025 12th International Video POETRY FESTIVAL ATHENS 15-17 June 2023 membra(I)nes: 12th Annual Conference of the Gender Studies Association
Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design, Halle and Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig20 May 2023 Sivan Ben Yishai: Wit(h)nessing
Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Main Stage6 June 2021 Washington DC’s Sound Scene Festival “EMERGE” 
Signals explores the notion of performativity in the form of codes, signs, drag, and masks in order to emerge from the darkness as visible.
Signals become methods of translation, channels through which our voices become audible and understood. Bodies emerge into forms which are recognized and codified; modes through which we can be understood and called into subjectivity. An audio work and a video essay, Signals explores the process of emergence especially as it relates to the a/Artist into cultural spaces of power, those who hold or desire to hold the microphone.
STREAM Spotify · Apple Music · YouTube Music · Tidal · Deezer BUY Bandcamp Using multiple distinct voices and perspectives, both sung and written, Signals explores the process through which one emerges through the implementation of signals like masks, codes, dress, and language in order to achieve audibility, visibility and thus access. What is this process of emergence? Who stands at the gate? What is gained and lost in this process?
HYENAZ create all their sound works from original field recordings; the particular context for these recordings were an anarcha-feminist anti-military conference which brought together activists from throughout and beyond Eastern Europe and central Asia. Together the members of the conference struggled to bridge knowledges, contexts and experiences. HYENAZ want to especially thank the voices and brave activists who were present there.
Signals is the 4th audio visual work in Foreign Bodies, commissioned by Sound Scene Festival, Washington DC in 2021, with support from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Goethe Institut.
Credits
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Truth or Dare
Do you remember the lockdown?
When disembodied dancefloors were craving for bodies?
Where should we take our longing?
Where should we take our desire?
Where should we take our flesh?Screenings
05.04.2025 Berlin Achtung Berlin Film Festival
14.04.2025 Porn Film Festival ViennaInspired by the feeling of loneliness and longing during the first Covid lockdown, the experimental documentary „Truth or Dare“ begins. From interviews, that were conducted over a distance unfolds a fragmentary narration by people from different parts of the world who all came to Berlin to find a home and belonging here in the queer sex-positive scene. It’s about the discovery of queer bodies, the need for consent and the struggle for awareness of self-determined sex work.
As we glide through nocturnal Berlin and deserted clubrooms, we hear sirens singing and luring us in. The voices of different people are telling their stories, yearning for freedom, recognition and belonging.
The protagonists take us into their private spaces. We hear them talking about their desires and boundaries. We feel how they relate to each other by the way they speak and touch: It’s the playful, tender and animalistic aspect of sexuality. As a couple and in a group. And why all that?
“When you see birds flying together in a flock, there is a loss of control and a loss of ego for the bird who is flying in that majestic way with all the other birds.
People go on roller-coasters to feel that loss of control and people sing in choirs, because we want to feel part of something.“
(Adrienne Teicher in Truth or Dare)
Team
Director – Maja Classen
Writer – Maja Classen
Producer – Saralisa Volm
Director of Photography – Alina Albrecht
Editor – Sabrina Rücker
Original Music – Vanessa Chartrand-Rodrigue, Angad Berar
Sounddesign & Final Mix – Uwe Bossenz
Production Manager – Anja Neuhaus
Cast
Puck, Jasko Fide, Bishop Black, Jorge The Obscene, Mad Kate, Adrienne Teicher, Lo-Fi Cherry, Arwen, KAy Garnellen, Carlos Raiz, Gili, Natasha, Gami, Ann Antidote, Nicky Miller, Rob Talin, Diana Kleimenova, Dita Rita Scholl
Funding
BKM, Akademie der Künste StipendiumA POISON production
Distributed by POISON