humanism — GEGEN BERLIN

A suspended garden of evil flowers, obsessive thoughts. Sirens seducing your senses, poisoning your mind, abusing your organs, dropping you out. Where you can find yourself in a near death apnea, remembering futures in your own mute film.

"Falling Floating Flying" Warbear, Mein Schwules Auge #7 - KonkursBuch

Where biology is not destiny, Gegen rises.

In its third celebration, we evoke a myth embodying a strange life form as a fluctuating icon. S/he is her/e, beast and beauty, the fragmented monster of celestial swings; the homeric siren. They flew over the beaches of southern Europe as Hades - king of the dead souls – own army, captivating and manipulating, playing and dancing, seducing and killing, on their journeys.

The Sirens gave up their lives when they failed the mission to annihilate Ulysses by throwing themselves in the Mediterranean sea and mutating to a state of half fish – half human: The Mermaid. The queer innuendo is traced in her mythology as a monster polyphony, an open fe/male hairy body against the primate of the pure, the man, the warrior, the savior.

As no more heroes are allowed in a free space, queerness becomes a mesmerizing strategy of the pleasure in killing history through subliminal beat emissions. The dance of divine devices, an unresolved contradiction for times yet to be, a blue velvet sea or the prime ambush on the primacy of humanism.

Kaltes Klares Wasser are dripping beardscapes where identities open in waves. Come be hypnotized, cultivate the beauty of danger, dance with your doppelgänger in the constitution of the new body, a sublime chant too ecstatic to experience, too absolute to die for.

Concept courtesy of Warbear
Teaser by Boxikus
Artwork by Nina Reisingen

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