Gegen Uniform — GEGEN BERLIN

Gegen >< Uniform
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Concept ︎

Thesis
Do you think gender can be naturalized by a brand. Are you more masculine with a Mr. B T-shirt or more feminine with a skirt on. Capitalism made you a bear and Harley Davidson a Butch Dyke as much as postmodernism made you a Hipster.

Antithesis
Do you think you are free if you antagonize the LGBT community by defining yourself queer. How much did you use the word Gay Lesbian and tolerance in the eighties, Transgender in the nineties, queer in the y2k, intersexual, white privilege, washing and shaming in the 2010. Criticism is branding.

Synthesis
There is no such thing as Synthesis when you are individual and individualism is about multiplicity. There is no such thing as “community” if not inside a system of norms and if you think you belong, you silently replicate structures of power. Keep the contradiction alive by being digestible and in the same time poisonous. Consume symbols to the point of explosion and use them as a living collage. Cannibalize yourself. Trace your stories in a cosmos of empathy to embrace the other as your inner fear. Form your uniqueness with strategles of invasion.
GEGEN UNIFORM

Concept courtesy of Warbear
Grafic and video by Stefan Fähler

Fr. 2nd of September | Kit Kat Club

GEGENTANZ

ESTHER DUIJN /Another Earth/Soul People Music)

CHROMA (Stilvortalent/
Menschmeier!)

FREE SB (TheFrag/Musaic)

WARBEAR (Gegen)

VISUALS: BOXIKUS (Gegen)

SNAKE PIT

MATTER (live) (Kvnitu)

THE TRANSHUMANS (live) (Transhuman)

OPHELIA THE SUFFERING (Katharsis)

SID & EDDY (Schwefelgelb)

A/ONA (Drone)

Visual: KINOMATIK SOT (Gegen/The Erasers)

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Free wardrobe, Free Tasteful Shots for the first 100 comers, Free Fruits Buffets, Pool, Five Lounges, Fetish Balconades, An Undeground Hospital skies and hells for all the fallen angels

HOUSE OF GEGEN

LA FRAICHEUR (Friends with Benefits)

LEONARD DE LEONARD (Leonizer Records)

THE NEIGHBOURHOOD CHARACTER (Uzuri)

BEARCAVE

BEARKEEPER (Gegen)

GEGEN ART

GEGEN UNIFORM VIDEO INSTALLATION BY LEON ALLEZ

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GEGEN PHOTOS: GILI SHANI & DISCORDANT

GEGEN LIGHTS: ROTEM YANIV

GEGEN HOSTING: MYSTI & MR. HEINZ

GEGEN INFO: MANCHECK

FAST TRACK / SPEEDY BOARDING / PRIORITY

To avoid long waiting times and queuing at the door, we would like to ask you for some cooperation in order to let you access the club quicker and let us work fast The cloakroom demands most of the time – this is why it would be fantastic if you could help us

1. The Wardorbe is Free. Please hang up your clothes by yourself. You will find coat-hangers in big clothes baskets on the LEFT SIDE, right after the entrance door.

2. You MUST leave your jacket/ overcoat in the cloakroom. Preferably also hand in your sweater/ pullover – the club is very well heated!

3. Hang up your sweater/ pullover on a coat-hanger and put your jacket/ overcoat over it. Please DO NOT CRAM anything into the sleeves!

4. Please store your valuables safely and make sure you close all pockets on your garments well. Please also zip, button, etc. your jacket/ overcoat on the hanger, so it won't fall off it.

5. Bags and similar items will be handled separately. You will receive an extra ticket for each item.

6. You can pick up something from your clothes and/ or bags at any time! The attended cloakroom is for free!