Curator 

Eugenia Seriakov is a visual anthropologist, radio host and DJs under the name Cate Hops. With a scientific background in visual and media anthropology, her ideas revolve around the concept of space as a social practice.
Musically, she embeds herself in the Berlin bass scene and fuses ambient, early roots reggae and futuristic sound patterns from all areas. As a performer she is working on her own live noise improvisations and has co-founded the Fem*noise network.
With the ongoing project “Sound System Culture: On the Radical Roots of Rave”, she initiates events in which the audience the audience is actively involved. In her radio show, she invites guests from her network to discuss with her and play their favorite tracks.
As a scientist, Eugenia Seriakov also gives lectures, e.g. at the ICTM conference in Lisbon, the Unsafe+Sounds Festival in Vienna, the Goethe University Frankfurt and the Humboldt University Berlin.

 

 

Curator

Digging herself deeply into electronic music for almost 15 years, Josephine Doepner collected music throughout various genres and styles from all over the world.

Interested in subversive sounds and scenes, the journey lead her from analysing techno, ambient, garage, beats, downtempo and experimental bass music towards activism in dub, reggae and soundsystem music in general. Surrounded by people playing and producing music in Berlin, she got into recording mixes and playing in public – trying to express the connection between those influences under the DJ name ‘META‘ – in 2015.

In addition to her studies in sociology and politics it became a fertile opposite pole to do various culture-related activities and jobs, if possible in collective/alternative structures.
She did intercultural work with refugee musicians at the University of Arts for a while and (co-)organized different sized events and projects over the years, often trying to build a bridge between an academic approach and the so called ‘reality’. From visual conception in clubs, festivals or a music video, stage hand experiences, textwork on artists or musical education over gallery/exhibition logistics to producing publicly funded projects like Sound System Culture Berlin or the online tool Music C•A•R•E•S, she filled many roles.
The empowering and progressive aspects of educational DIY procedures, (underground) exchange networks and (social) sustainability stay the core of her focus: Aiming for a diverse and integrative, thoughtfully curated, connecting experience.

 

Writer and Social Media Witch

Wakaba aka @bahwaka is an ardent music lover from Japan who moved to Berlin in 2017. Under her personal motto ‘Make music accessible,’ she has involved herself in various collectives and venues to support musicians, promote inclusivity and make shows happen. Bonobo Harajuku, KM 28, and ausland are some of the places of contribution and devotion as volunteer / bar keeper / door face / party girl / ambience arranger, with the most recent position being a curator + program manager for ‘biegungen im ausland’ alongside her series partner. As a non-serious student of literature, her activities include writing, translations, and PR for the music scene. At www.bequietmusic.com you can find her writing and reports of musical encounters from the deep left trenches where she shimmies.

 

 

Past Curator

Maria Mathon / Mary aka Gretchen Bazooka is an event curator, Hard Dance DJ and producer.

In spring 2018 she hosted her first rave in Vienna, an event called “Bass Retreat”, where the genres Noise, Techno, Happy Hardcore as well as Tribal Tekno were represented.

After moving to Berlin, she started working as an sound and light technician at Club Mensch Meier and expanded her knowledge about the organizational as well as technical aspects of music events ever since.

In 2019, together with the crew Mary co-curated “Sound System Culture” events – smaller donation-based events as well as the complex multidisciplinary one-day festival, which was funded by Musicboard Berlin.

In fall 2019, she started managing another series of events called “Dynamic Events”, through which four events have taken place so far – two of them in compliance with Corona hygiene regulations.

Mary’s focus and goals are the representation of niche genres such as Hard Dance and Drum’n’Bass, normalizing gender-awareness in line-ups (well over 50% female or genderqueer artists have been booked at all past events) and general empowerment of all marginalized people in the art and music scene.

 

 

Writer

A. E. Elliott is a journalist, blogger and free party fanatic who has written for several publications about parties and activism in Berlin. She has had many years’ experience organising and moderating at activist events including the Anarchist Conference 2009 (London), No Pretence (London), Critical Mass (Ottawa), Revolutionary Anarcho Feminist Terrorists (Ottawa).

Since moving in Berlin, she’s also tried her hand at promotion and pulled together a banging party called Mind Smear, featuring DJs Chris Liberator, Rachel Rackitt and Squat Dom of Stay Up Forever Records. More recently, she also helped host a series of roundtable discussion nights at Mensch Meier called “Zur Sache: Fixing the Round Table.”

Her main interest is bringing people together to talk, dream and create a better world together.