TECHNO WORLDS
in Dresden
Impressions from the exhibitionopening on 4 May 2024:
Ausstellung, robotron-Kantine Dresden | @ Anja Schneider
Ausstellung, robotron-Kantine Dresden | @ Anja Schneider
Ausstellung, robotron-Kantine Dresden | @ Anja Schneider
Exhibition, robotron-Kantine Dresden | @ Anja Schneider
Exhibition visitor, robotron-Kantine Dresden | @ Anja Schneider
Exhibition visitor, robotron-Kantine Dresden | @ Anja Schneider
Exhibition visitors, robotron-Kantine Dresden | @ Anja Schneider
Exhibition visitors, robotron-Kantine Dresden | @ Anja Schneider
Exhibition visitors, robotron-Kantine Dresden | @ Anja Schneider
Exhibition visitors, robotron-Kantine Dresden | @ Anja Schneider
Exhibition visitors, robotron-Kantine Dresden | @ Anja Schneider
Press conference, robotron-Kantine Dresden | @ Anja Schneider
Press conference, robotron-Kantine Dresden | @ Anja Schneider
Press conference, robotron-Kantine Dresden | @ Anja Schneider
Press conference, robotron-Kantine Dresden | @ Anja Schneider
Exhibition, robotron-Kantine Dresden | @ Anja Schneider
6pm Admission
7pm Greeting words
Annekatrin Klepsch (Mayor of Culture, Science and Tourism City of Dresden), Wolf Iro (Head of the Culture Department, Goethe-Institut), Martina de Maizière (Stiftung Kunst & Musik für Dresden)
Opening Panel TECHNO WORLDS:
Mathilde Weh ((Goethe-Institut curatorial team), Justin Hoffmann (Kunstverein Wolfsburg), Christiane Mennicke-Schwarz (Kunsthaus Dresden) und Kerstin Flasche (Kunsthaus Dresden)
Moderation: Sophia Littkopf
9pm-1am Aftershow with DJ-Kollektiv ProZecco
Drinks & Snacks Speisewerk
‘Queer outa space and under water. On the queer history of techno’
Not only since living and dancing in the techno 'metaverse' has been celebrated by queer elves and cyber nymphs in a kind of techno cos-play has rave been seen as a place to throw off the shackles of reactionary gender concepts, heteronormativity and binarity. With their roots in the Afrofuturism of the 1980s and their pronounced longing for a new, safe, emancipatory and also anti-colonial homeland, house, trance and techno culture incorporate the potential of a diverse and fluid sphere for boundless identity constructions.
We want to visit the TECHNO WORLDS exhibition together and present and discuss works that not only tell a queer history of techno, but also seek queer utopias in techno.
on techno cultures, spaces, appropriations and struggles in times of upheaval
The history of techno is intertwined with political and economic transformation processes that made the appropriation of spaces for a new club culture possible. The fusion of different techno scenes into a global phenomenon can also be understood as appropriation, if we look at the development of house and trance in the heart of African-American music culture in the 1980s. The discussion is dedicated to the appropriation of techno worlds 'beyond borders'.
Attention! External location:
oka – objekt klein a
Meschwitzstr. 9
01099 Dresden
Free admission - donations for Klubnetz Dresden e. V. welcome
In cooperation with Klubnetz Dresden, the ‘Club Culture’ symposium will also take place as part of the TECHNO WORLDS programme. Three panel talks will shed light on the current challenges facing club culture creators in urban and rural areas in Saxony.
‘Young / Hip / Broke’
‘City / Country / Club’
‘Club / Culture / Networks’
Organised and moderated by Klubnetz Dresden e. V.
Further information: live-in-sachsen.de
For better planning, the organisers ask you to register by e-mail to
lisa@live-in-sachsen.de