slum

tomorrow at Slum

2009-09-29T08:33:00.001-07:00

Partyveranstalter, Schriftsteller, Poser, Alkohooligan, Hansdampf in allen Gassen: Thomas Götz von Aust errichtet Martin Kippenberger zwölf Jahre nach dessen Tod seinen ersten Tempel in dem Darkroom-Labyrinth des Ficken3000. Und liest aus der unendlichen Kippenberger-Story "Vollrausch".

Party host, novelist, poser, alcohooligan, johnny-on-the-spot - Twelve years after Martin Kippenbergers death, Thomas Götz von Aust will raise him the first temple inside the darkroom labyrinth of Ficken3000. Plus: Another version of his neverending Kippenberger story "Vollrausch".

With a special DJ set by Dolby Anol and SLUM resident Disaster Area!

You only see this kind of insanity at SLUM!

Anus is an open scar

2009-09-04T06:36:00.001-07:00

Program for september

2009-09-01T14:44:00.000-07:00

SLUM – September

SLUM ist jetzt jeder Mittwoch im Ficken3000, Urbanstr. 70.

SLUM is now every Wednesday at Ficken3000, Urbanstr. 70.

Jeder Mittwoch im September, DJ Dolby Anol:

http://www.myspace.com/dolbyanol

Our September resident DJ at SLUM is DOLBY ANOL: http://www.myspace.com/dolbyanol

September 2

Angel Eyecon

The New York City club icon stops by SLUM for a special performance! Not to be missed!

http://www.myspace.com/angeleyedealism

September 9
"ANUS IS AN OPEN SCAR"
Music
MARIAE NASCENTI (Final Musik - Milan/Berlin)
http://www.myspace.com/mariaenascenti
Texts
WARBEAR (Phag Off is Dead/Atomic)
http://www.myspace.com/warbear
video
BOXIKUS (Sabot°Age)
http://www.myspace.com/boxikus
+
"PAINRAIN"
installation by Agnelo Ango Visone

September 16

CJ & the Dolls

Live show by the tranny pop diva from Portland.

http://www.myspace.com/cjandthedolls

September 23

Tennessee Claflin

American performance artist

http://www.youtube.com/user/TennesseeClaflin

September 30

Thomas Götz von Aust

German writer and party promoter revives the ghost of Martin Kippenberger in a special darkroom reading/performance

SLUM goes Wednesday

2009-09-01T09:06:00.000-07:00

SLUM celebrates our move to Wednesday nights at Ficken3000 with a live performance by Angel Eyedealism aka Angel Eyecon (NYC) and a DJ set by Dolby Anol!!

ANGEL EYEDEALISM
Bizarre elegance: It's what Angel Eyedealism exemplifies. It's the larger-than-life, drag queen look juxtaposed with the classically trained, five-octave range vocals. It's the intense, emotional, theatrical performance, set to spiraling trip-hop beats. But she is no drag queen. She is a real woman of substance beneath all the charismatic style.

TV CARNAGE

2009-08-27T02:11:00.000-07:00

+ "A little Reading/A little Leg," a performance by Travis Steele Sisk

Once Travis Steele Sisk was exiled from West Virginia in 2001, he began his modern dance training at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. In 2006 he attended American Dance Festival under a full scholarship and is currently working with Troika Ranch, a multi-media dance company from Brooklyn. He has performed in the works of choreographers Christoph Winkler, Mariga Maggipinto, Scott Putman, and Ligia Lewis and he has choreographed and presented over a dozen works himself.

+ an evening of TV CARNAGE!

In case you don’t know: Each TV CARNAGE volume is hundreds of hours of exceptionally bad TV lovingly fused together into an hour plus; glorious cesspools of retardation. These are the compilations that have been featured and loved by VICE MAGAZINE, NME, SHARPEWORLD, FORT DRASIC, OK FLAVOR, DAILY CANDY, and shown in festivals and porn theatres throughout North America, Europe and Japan.

+ rockotheque w/ DJs Dustcake & Dolby Anol

Ain't No Sunshine

2009-08-19T02:28:00.000-07:00

20 august @Slum

2009-08-19T02:23:00.000-07:00

AIN’T NO SUNSHINE
An exhibition by Mario Dzurila and Snax in the dark room of SLUM @ Ficken 3000, Berlin.

What if every sperm supposedly “wasted” in a basement dark room actually had the potential to fertilize and produce human life? Mario Dzurila and Snax would like to introduce you to overlooked offspring, the Children Of The Dark Room, where there Ain’t No Sunshine.
In the morning hours, the floor of a typical dark room can almost amount to what science calls “primordial soup.” Special conditions, such as high humidity, low temperature and lack of light fuse with the chemicals used in lubricants and amyl nitrate, thus prolonging a sperm’s life span from several minutes to several days. The pairing and matching of said sperm results in a cell called the zygote, which replicates half the DNA of each of two or more fathers.
After the birth, children remain in the dark room their entire life. Adaptation to their surroundings comes in a myriad of forms. Retinas expand to catch any small amount of light. In other instances, children emit their own light with bioluminescence - disguising their silhouette. They stay hidden in their underground dark dens through busy barroom hours, never allowing their innocence to disturb wandering patrons and future parents. Socializing only with each other, they are timid and panic easily. Their playground is video and their laughter is digitized.

Mario Dzurila and Snax shed light on these forgotten souls and allow the world to witness this phenomenon for the first time. At last, the children will rule the roost downstairs and the visitors are the ones who will have to be their unseen guests.

Unisondetune at Slum, august 13th

2009-08-10T12:45:00.001-07:00

Charlie and Eve N meet each other in March 2008 through MySpace. Their musical duo starts a year later, born from the clash between brit electropop music and dark-eighties rock.

Charlie, a former violinist, is the singer and lyricist of UNISONDETUNE.

Eve N has a ten year long experience in electronic instruments and piano; he has been with synth rock act KubricK for three years, self-producing their latest album "Lost Diary of a Goth Girl".

The duo is working on the debut album, while shooting the video for the groovy single "Alive" and taking their first creations on stage: in occasion of the Berlin event, the band is premiering a fresh-from-the-mixer, alternate rock version of "Alive".

Listen here

Have you ever been raped by a white elephant

2009-08-09T18:17:00.001-07:00

6th August, photoshoot by Master Patrick
-Have you ever been raped by a white elephant, or my first LSD experience in a darkroom-

the cock of the week. 1st Slum

2009-08-09T07:57:00.000-07:00

All the boobs, cocks and vags of Slum. 1st Gloryhole photobooth.

2009-08-09T07:32:00.000-07:00

By Luigi V.

1st month program

2009-08-05T13:56:00.000-07:00

AUGUST 6
Gaby Bila-Gunther ("Lady Poet in the Darkroom")
Master Patrick ("Live Erotic Photo Shoot")
Luigi of Luigi & Luca ("Gloryhole Photo Booth")
Tennessee Claflin ("Lady Burqa")
DJs Dustcake & Disaster Area

AUGUST 13
UnisonDetune - http://www.myspace.com/unisondetune
Blue in the Face - http://www.myspace.com/tothesnake
Master Patrick - http://www.masterpatrick.de/
DJs Dustcake & Disaster Area

AUGUST 20
"Darkroom Children," an installation by Snax and Mario Dzurila
Master Patrick - http://www.masterpatrick.de/
DJs Dustcake & Disaster Area

AUGUST 27
Travis Steele Sisk
Master Patrick - http://www.masterpatrick.de/
DJs Dustcake & Disaster Area

SLUM -OPENING NIGHT 6TH AUGUST

2009-08-03T15:07:00.000-07:00

SLUM BAPTISM

2009-08-03T06:53:00.000-07:00

August 6th \

PERFORMERS:

Gaby Bila-Günther
("Lady Poet in the Darkroom")

Master Patrick
("Live Erotic Photo Shoot")

Luigi V .
of Luigi & Luca
("Gloryhole Photo Booth")

Tennessee Claflin
("Lady Burqa")

Click on the name to go to the artist's webpage

BIOS

Gaby Bila-Günther
Gaby Bila-Günther is a young writer who has been labeled ‘oddly poetic’ and ‘flamboyant and upbeat’ by The Age newspaper in Melbourne, Australia (where she was based between 1995-2002); and labeled 'provocative' by The Pill paper in Prague, Czech Republic.

Gaby Bila-Günther, originally from Romania, arrived in Berlin via Melbourne where she would regularly perform her poetry in laundromats, beauty parlors, elevators, and trams. Her tales stretch from the primitive paths of Eastern Europe where her encounters with gypsies are true memoirs, to the shores of inner cities where her anger about urban decline is fairly potent. Widely published, her spoken-word, poetry, short stories and nonfiction articles have appeared in journals, CD compilations, magazines and literature anthologies in Australia, Germany and England. As a radio journalist she conducted interviews for Melbourne’s community radio, 3CR's Accent of Women, a show about multicultural women’s issues. Since 1999 she began responding to her urban and cultural environment with photos, postcards and zines layered by text and poetry. In 1998 she graduated with a Diploma in Professional Writing and Editing at the Holmesglen Institute of Art & Technology in Melbourne, Australia.

She has been a member of urbanart since 2001, and co-founder of Flush artists’ group, who spontaneously perform their work in public spaces such as lifts, launderettes, train platforms and moving trams. She has performed and showed text based works in Australia, Germany, Austria, Sweden and Czech Republic. In 2000 on a ‘moving tram’ she launched her self-published book Validate & Travel, poems about tram travels and in 2002 her own spoken word filled with ambient techno beats debut CD, Off the Main together with music producer ZOG. Recently together with fellow writer Jessica Falzoi she formed the Poets’ Party, site specific performances where spoken-words meet every other artistic medium.

Master Patrick

Master Patrick entwickelt sich immer mehr zur Kunstfigur.

Ein Mensch der mit Maske lebt! Mal im Anzug, in Jeans, in Sportswear, mal im Frack.

Master Patrick hat beschlossen das ewige Alter 19 Jahre zu behalten.
Fragen nach etwaigen anderen Zahlen sind zwecklos! <= Typisch Künstler! *lach*

Möchtest du genaueres & mehr über Master Patrick & sein Schaffen erfahren
dann stöbere einfach ein bischen in den unteren Rubriken!
Da ich an sehr vielen Projekten arbeite, schaffe ich es zeitlich allerdings nicht immer, die Rubriken
auf dem neuesten Stand zu halten! Sorry!
Die aktuellen Gruppenausstellungen in Berlin & Madrid sind zum Beispiel noch genauso wenig erwähnt
wie aktuelle Veröffentlichungen in einem Bestsellerbuch....

Luigi V.
Is the head of the duo L.&L.

Luigi&Luca meet half way between life and art, they start building their images in 2007. They've been living in Florence,Madrid, San Francisco and actually they live in Berlin.

As a duo they explore the aesthetics of sexuality and fashion in order to find the way to assert the politic weight of their bodies.

Their project is rappresented by the Changingrole gallery.

Tennessee Claflin

Tennessee Claflin was born in Boise, Idaho and spent most of his young life in Salt Lake City before moving to Los Angeles at the age of seventeen. Today he is a Berlin based writer, activist & performance artist having lived and worked in several other cities around the world including New York, Buenos Aires, San Francisco, Istanbul, Madrid and Portland, Oregon.

. The name Tennessee Claflin is borrowed from a real-life familial ancestor, a rumored sex worker and radical suffragette who eventually married into royalty. That there are numerous parallels with our modern-day Claflin in this mythic story is undeniable

An·nounce·ment

2009-07-31T14:34:00.000-07:00

The creators of PORK are pleased to announce the creation of an exciting new nightlife concept for Berlin. Beginning on August 6th, every Thursday night, Ficken3000 will be transformed into SLUM.

SLUM aims to unite all of Berlin’s disparate artistic, sexual, and nocturnal subcultures under a single roof. In the tradition of Zurich’s Cabaret Voltaire, New York’s Jackie 60, and LA’s Club Sucker, SLUM will serve as both a party and a venue for cutting-edge performers and artists looking to transcend boundaries.

Each Thursday, artists will transform Ficken3000’s cavernous darkroom into a performance lounge, where artists, writers, and musicians from Berlin and abroad will present one-off projects responding to the unique properties of the space. On the video monitors, we will show video art and experimental film. Upstairs on the main dance floor, a revolving cast of resident guest DJs will spin rock, electro, noise, and avant-garde weirdness.

Our first month’s resident DJ will be Dustcake. The schedule of performers for August will be announced shortly.

SLUM is curated by performance artist Tennessee Claflin and writer Travis Jeppesen. For more information, contact us at travis.jeppesen@gmail.com or mapsofmars@hotmail.com.