Performance Art Festival: Teachings of Post-Academic Knowledge

Welcome to Queer B-Cademy – Teachings of post-academic knowledge,
The performance art festival about queer utopia, futurist practice and intersectional perspectives.

Local and international artists and activists together with the esteemed audience are all invited and called on to transform Kampnagel into a temple of the distribution of queer knowledge. Where workshops meet new concepts of Wellness, where Imagination is being liberated of its shabby stigma of naiveté and instead elevated to a tool for social justice.

Queer B-Cademy is a playground for adults, whose life has grown too serious, yet it is an honest place with serious intentions. At the same time it is the complement to and outbreak of the a-cademic system, which merely reproduces itself and perpetually excludes certain people. It is a platform for off-mainstream perspectives. Serving as the alleged opposition of exclusive social patterns, »Queerness« is being examined on the test bench: Who feels represented by it and who feels excluded? Is it just a neoliberal passing fancy? Does it merely consist of brief moments of self-adulation?

We position ourselves on the the late José Esteban Muñoz’ side who said: »Queerness is not here yet, [...], but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality.« We like to look ahead without staring into space in the quest of finding the transformative powers within the concept of Queerness.

Queer B-Cademy is the unapologetic desire for new structures, a boot camp of solidarity and a temple of uniqueness. B-sides b-ing listened to, b-liefs formulated and new b-f-f‘s made, it it safe to say – there will also b some dancing!

Program

Wednesday, 21.02 / 17:00
WORKSHOP: BRONTEZ PURNELL - INTERDISZIPLINARITÄT / SCHREIBEN / TANZ
Bringing together his two artistic loves, dance and writing, Brontez Purnell introduces the complementary powers of interdisciplinary artistic working in this workshop.
Please register here

Wednesday, 21.02. / 19:00
ERÖFFNUNG KEYNOTE: DEAN HUTTON
Videoartist and photo journalist Dean Hutton gained international notoriety through their work of over 18 years and recently with the »fuck white people« project. The provocative nature of their approach, however, are part the love revolutionthey attempt to generate. How perfectly b-cademic! Plus: I mean, they’re a DEAN! Nomen est omen, right?

Wednesday, 21.02. / 20:00 (+ Thursday, 22.02. / 21:30 + Friday, 23.02. / 20:00)
JUSTIN ALLEN - LESUNG / FUTURISMUS / UTOPIE / BLACKNESS
The writer and performer Justin Allen defies the current times with his work of futurist prose inspired by urban environment, language and regional identity.

Wednesday, 21.02. / ab 21:00
NIGHTCLUBBING: DJ TUTKU

Thursday, 22.02 / 15:30
WORKSHOP: NIC KAY - CREATIVE MOVEMENT WORKSHOP
Dance and movement as a means of empowerment – especially important for queer and trans communities and people of colour. NIC Kay knows how to sow hope into your soul and let it grow. Please register here

Thursday, 22.02. / 19:00, every 20 min (+ Friday 23.02. + Saturday, 24.02.)
TUCKÉ ROYALE - 1-ON-1 / GESCHICHTE / HERSTORY / AKTUALISIERUNG
Fighting the erasure of queer herstory, Dr.Tucké Royale invites you to a brief séance over a cup of tea and a game of memory. Help him complete the archives of B-Cademia!

Thursday, 22.02. / 19:00
MAVI VELOSO - PERFORMANCE / EMPOWERMENT / TRANSITION / STIMME
Mavi Veloso seems provocative when she flirts with the audience over the microphone, but provocation literally means »effective voicing« or »summoning«. The voice is a power tool and the object of Mavi’s main research in this performance.

Thursday, 22.02. / ab 19:00 (+ Samstag, 24.02.)
PREACH UND NATASCHA P. - PERFORMANCE / CLASS-EMPOWERMENT / INTERSEKTIONALER FEMINISMUS / CONTEMPORARY ART
Hamburg’s own Preach and Natascha P. are the hope of the intersectional twerk sound. These daughters of housekeepers are shaking their derrieres against the heteronormative white society in occasional disruptive surprise numbers throughout the evening.

Thursday, 22.02. / 21:00
DAMM IT JANET - PERFORMANCE / QUEER FEMINSIST MAGIC SHOW / DECONSTRUCTION / UTOPIAN PRACTICE
This local queer feminist trio likes to use sorcery while tackling feminist theory. Get ready for transformation: Abracadabra!

Thursday, 22.02. / 21:00
NIGHTCLUBBING: DJ SAELEEN BOUVAR

Thursday, 22.02. / 21:30 (+ Friday, 23.02. / 20:00)
JUSTIN ALLEN - LESUNG / FUTURISMUS / UTOPIE / BLACKNESS
The writer and performer Justin Allen defies the current times with his work of futurist prose inspired by urban environment, language and regional identity.

Friday, 23.02. / 11:00 - 17:00
WORKSHOP: ROSANA CADE - QUEER DAY SPA
Queer Day Spa is an anti-spa, it’s not about »me-time« – it’s about »us-time«! Find out how doing something good for others ultimately comes back to you! Please register here

Friday, 23.02. / 19:00, every 20 min (+Saturday, 24.02.)
TUCKÉ ROYALE - 1-ON-1 / GESCHICHTE / HERSTORY / AKTUALISIERUNG
Fighting the erasure of queer herstory, Dr.Tucké Royale invites you to a brief séance over a cup of tea and a game of memory. Help him complete the archives of B-Cademia!

Bombs Uber California: Friday, 23.02. / 19:00 and Chronic: A Dance About Marijuana: Saturday, 24.02. / 19:00
BRONTEZ PURNELL - TANZ / PUNK / NEOLIBERALISMUSKRITIK / MEMETIK
Punk is not a music genre, it’s a lifestyle, which is undisputedly visible in Brontez Purnell’s contemporary dance works. These two pieces brilliantly critisize neoliberalism and meditate on the culture of dreams and bias.

Friday, 23.02. / 20:00
JUSTIN ALLEN - LESUNG / FUTURISMUS / UTOPIE / BLACKNESS
The writer and performer Justin Allen defies the current times with his work of futurist prose inspired by urban environment, language and regional identity.

Friday, 23.02. / 20:30
NIC KAY - PUSHIT - TANZ / NEOLIBERALISMUSKRITIK / WELLNESS / BLACKNESS
With plenty of wit and flair, NIC Kay always hits it home, all while they’re dealing with the burden of black trauma and the daily struggle to wellness. In pushit NIC claims the room they need to sow hope and inspire.

Friday, 23.02. / 21:00
RENATE STAHL: STAHL TALK - TALK SHOW / QUEERNESS / ZWISCHENBILANZ / GOSSIP
Renate Stahl may have started out from nothing in her home city of Hagen, but today that successful woman took the world by its cue cards! In her incredible talk show she won’t hold back! This time: »What is Queerness and how do I exploit it?«

Friday, 23.02. / 23:00
ENZO - KONZERT / NIGHTCLUBBING / EMOTIONALITÄT / NO T NO SHADE
Hamburg based Enzo is a singer-songwriter is the real deal! His music reflects queer angst and the beats give you 80s synth and 90s trip hop realness. Deep shit on fat bass – the fiercest combo ever!

Friday, 23.02. / ab 21:00
NIGHTCLUBBING: DJ ABIJANINSKI

Saturday, 24.02. / 15:00
WORKSHOP: ENZO UND MAVI VELOSO - STIMM(UNGS)WECHSEL
Enzo and Mavi are experts on voice from two different perspectives: Enzo is a singer and Mavi a researcher that has her own experiences with transitioning. Together they share their artistic knowledge about voice as a power tool. Please register here

Saturday, 24.02. / 15:30
WORKSHOP: TAVERNA MAGICA - QUEERE MUSLIMISCHE UTOPIEN VON GESTERN GEGEN DIE SORGEN VON MORGEN
by Leyla Jagiella Please register here

Saturday, 24.02. / 19:00, every 20 min
TUCKÉ ROYALE - 1-ON-1 / GESCHICHTE / HERSTORY / AKTUALISIERUNG
Fighting the erasure of queer herstory, Dr.Tucké Royale invites you to a brief séance over a cup of tea and a game of memory. Help him complete the archives of B-Cademia!

Saturday, 24.02. / ab 19:00
PREACH UND NATASCHA P. - PERFORMANCE / CLASS-EMPOWERMENT / INTERSEKTIONALER FEMINISMUS / CONTEMPORARY ART
Hamburg’s own Preach and Natascha P. are the hope of the intersectional twerk sound. These daughters of housekeepers are shaking their derrieres against the heteronormative white society in occasional disruptive surprise numbers throughout the evening.

Saturday, 24.02. / 20:30
ROSANA CADE MIT JOHNSMITH - DRAG MOTHER - PERFORMACE / MUTTERSCHAFT / DRAG-KULTUR / SPIRITUALITÄT
Motherhood is mostly linked to reproduction, but Rosana Cade and johnsmith place its concept beyond conception. Their performance pays homage to drag culture and its beautiful obsession with substitute mothers.

Saturday, 24.02. / 21:30 // k4 (Reading in Arabic with English translation)
HAZAN KAHRIZI - LESUNG / FUTURISMUS / HOFFNUNG
The writer and activist Hazan Kahrizi practices writing as a strategy to create hope. Dark memories of a war stricken homeland are woven into a love story that defies the trauma.

Saturday, 24.02. / ab 22:30
NIGHTCLUBBING: ORACLE:FEMME FUTURITIES
The mostly male-dominated art of drag is a fierce empowerment tool. The all-female collective Oracle:femme futurities reclaims it and brings it to a new level: Lip syncs followed by rituals and DJ-sets fill that incredibly intense club culture event. Get ready for some female trouble in the female bubble!

Sunday, 25.02. / 13:30
B-RUNCH - DISZIPLIN: RITUELLE B-STANDSAUFNAHME / PROMOTION / VITAMIN B - AUSGABE
After a fulminant festival on Sunday it is time for contemplation. And for brunch! What did we learn at the B-Cademy? What do we do with that knowledge? Come over for some gossip and the finest vegan soul food.

INSTALLATIONEN UND ATTRAKTIONEN
The B-Cademy is a full package: on top oft the fierce programme there will be installations and a mini-shopping mall. Watch HALLO DEUTSCHLAND – DIE EINWANDERER, the brand new series about refugees’ real experiences with coming to Germany and BOTANICAL VOGUEING – the ecosexual dance meditation. And don’t miss out on the fab shopping mall!

Program (PDF) Download!

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