Communities are born through joyful transformation, when people discover new possibilities together while resisting, inventing, or activating something that is already in play. Yet, the hopefulness that comes with the word "community" has also been weaponized as an engine of normative power and capital.
To build community means to feel represented because you can influence others and in turn be influenced by them. But to create community also means we must be open to intimacy and risk being wounded. Just as intimacy and closeness can be enabling, they can also be sources of coercion, manipulation, and exploitation. Within every community lies both unity and vulnerability.
The feeling of belonging to a community can be exhilarating. But when reduced to an imperative to have always “good relationships” with everyone and everything, community becomes simplistic and reactionary. Love and friendship can be contorted to erase power relations and systemic violence, enforcing obedience to oppressive norms of politeness or devotion.
We are not criminals. We are not disillusioned. We are not naive children. We are one community.
How do we create these communities? How do we relate to them? Who is this “we”? How do we affect each other? Is it through those knowing smiles and the electric glances that pass around when a certain drop happens in a track, or a particular sound or riff comes in, that creates synergy with the vibe everybody’s on?
A community is open — not to everyone, of course, but to the initiates sworn to a bond of love. A community is a horizontal pattern of complicity, alliance and affinities. Through shared experiences we make changes by building a common history together. Let’s reinvent how we love each other and remember that community is love, solidarity is love, collaboration is love — collective love, where we look out for each other.
GEGEN Community is an ode to the power found among our partners in crime and love.
GEGEN Community
photo courtesy of Florian Hetz
graphics & logo by Enrico Bardin
GEGEN FLOOR
AIDA ARKO
ANGEL KAREL
ESTHER DUNE
MÉTARAPH
SAMANTHA TOGNI
CAGE FLOOR
LADY MARU
MAR/US
OCD
DRAGON FLOOR
CRISTIAN MARRAS
LA FRAICHEUR
LA SCHMOCK
BEARCAVE
FEASTING
GIO
PLEASURE DOME
RANGELOVAall night long
PERFORMERS
PHOTOGRAPHER
RAF&WAY
event links: RA / IG
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DRESSCODE
︎Festive, jubilant, celebratory, DIY, convivial, joyful, proud, kinky, deviant, specific, unique, symbols, codes, but mostly naked.
︎Read the concept carefully and take your fantasy out of the closet. Indulge creativity and self-expression.
︎Let your imagination flow.
AIDA ARKO
ANGEL KAREL
ESTHER DUNE
MÉTARAPH
SAMANTHA TOGNI
CAGE FLOOR
LADY MARU
MAR/US
OCD
DRAGON FLOOR
CRISTIAN MARRAS
LA FRAICHEUR
LA SCHMOCK
FEASTING
GIO
PLEASURE DOME
RANGELOVA
PERFORMERS
JAMAL PHOENIX & COMMANDER ARES |
JP |
KILIAN GARRÓS |
LANA DIAMOND |
MASTER JOËL & SLAVE SERBY |
SOPHIE LAZARI |
THE DARK FRAU & FIFI TINKER |
PHOTOGRAPHER
RAF&WAY
event links: RA / IG
Join our Telegram group for advance reduced tickets and more information.
︎Festive, jubilant, celebratory, DIY, convivial, joyful, proud, kinky, deviant, specific, unique, symbols, codes, but mostly naked.
︎Read the concept carefully and take your fantasy out of the closet. Indulge creativity and self-expression.
︎Let your imagination flow.
BYRAF&WAY
︎Online purchased tickets are not refundable.
︎The ticket allows multiple re-entries.
︎Being in possession of an e-ticket does not guarantee entry, we reserve the right to deny the entrance, refunds will be processed when this happens.
︎In order to protect each other's privacy, we discourage the use of image recording devices in all the areas, we’ll have our own photographers.
︎We want you and our other guests to feel comfortable, regardless of gender, race, religion, class, or sexual orientation.
︎Please make sure there is consent before approaching any physical contact. Gegen is not a place for nazis, racism, any kind of discrimination, sexual harassment, or any sort of violence.
︎If you should observe or experience an inappropriate situation, please don't hesitate to contact our yellow vest awareness team or any of the staff at the bars/coat check, guest service, or our door crew.
︎Those who shall not comply with these rules will be invited to leave.
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