Fundraising for the Roof: ‘No! More White Money’ at Sophiensaele, Berlin Art Link

No! More White Money premiers at Sophiensaele, Berlin 6 November 2024. Foto: Paul Holdsworth.

 

[No! More White Money] is a theater performance produced by an international cohort of artist organizations: Afra Tafri Creations (IN/NL), Flinn Works (DE), Drama Queen (IN), Tutùọlá Institute (NG) and Ada Mukhina (RU/DE). It follows on from ‘White Money’ (2021), an exhibition and program of performances produced by Flinn Works, which also premiered at Sophiensaele, and critiqued how the flow of cultural funding from Europe to the so-called “Global South” shapes cultural production.

Read at Berlin Art Link.

‘DJ Report/DJ Backlash’: Unsound 2024 Noise, Kraków, 29th of September – 6th of October 2024, Cyclic Defrost

Unsound Festival, Noise. Photo: Helena Majewska 2024

 

Some thoughts on Unsound Festival 2024, Noise, are now up on Cyclic Defrost. It’s a long read!

So while Unsound presented numerous notable concerts, club nights, installations and a discourse program, my focus here is on the festival’s DJ sets. Once in Kraków, I sensed a backlash against DJ culture, as people voiced to me their disdain for the popular Boiler Room platform, complained about the exorbitant fees headlining DJs charge and generally begrudged those who, to paraphrase British producer aya, “make a career out of playing other people’s music”— albeit admitting to having done so herself. Are such criticisms warranted? Let’s cut to the chase.

Read it here.