Waking Life
Apuro
NOT A SPACE BUT A SPASM. A burning library of synapses where we spit on the ashes of ‘should’. Bring your spine as kindling, we’re rewriting the alphabet with nerve-endings. The temple of counterculture beckons - the door is a mouth - step through
(this is the edge. the only way out is deeper in. shall we?)
WEDNESDAY
Is it our time? What is our time? Do we have a shared understanding of time? Are we losing time.. or have we lost our time already?
18:00 - 19:30 Collective Psychedelic Integration
Yulfriana Borremans & Anna Varnai
Prepping for the high highs & low lows, and all that moves and stills in between. The Avózinha crew guides us through psychedelic integration rooted in embodied awareness.
19:30 - 21:00 Bundeskanzlerin Presents
Naya de Souza
Join the ‘migas club where we’ll serve nerve-wrecking political satire on a stolen golden platter. Time for juicy jokes that jazz, juj and jeez all the vibes :)
THURSDAY
We slip into the trans dance trance where motion bleeds - neither stepping nor still, a whispering threshold where all polarities drown in the liquid dark.
10:00 - 11:30 Transbreath
Eva Greiderer & Alexander Jenkin
Breathing through all the breath-tenses.. in-tense, ou-tense and sus-tence, this is psychedelic breathwork to transcend and return replenished, renewed and rewired.
12:00 - 13:30 C..ch..changes
Lady Blue Phoenix
Life is.. so goddam life. Full. of. ups. and. downs.. How do we keep those downs from keeping us down and instead use them to help us move forward as we ride the life’s turbulence? In this werkshop we’ll be noticing and processing change as it happens and how to tame its energy into… you fill the blank ;)
14:00 - 16:00 Ecovocality
Francesco Venturi
Get under your fascia and follow your voice folds, in this workshop we discover the inner places that open up new morphologies in our bodies when we activate vocal play.
17:30 - 19:00 Beyond the Divide
Vanessa Faloye
What does our world, our time, require of us? It requires us to co-exist beyond the divide of polarisation, to build our ability to coexist with the other - the bad, wrong, stupid, dangerous other. The other who is not going away.
19:30 - 21:00 Decolonisada
Lola Bhajan
A ritual performance chasing a girl’s tender dream through identity’s fractured mirror. Colonial wounds split open, binary ghosts emerge.. through symbol, soma, ancestral memory, we shed until the body tilts into defiant rebirth.
21:30 - 23:00 CURVS
Paolle, DIDI, Gustrava
We learn how to perceive the world through the normative illusion of straightness: straight lines, straight abs & jawlines, straight sexuality, skyscrapers, verticality. CURVS takes the curvy queer body as an escape route for a wider, intersectional mission of bringing together a community of people dodging oppressive framings.
23:30 - 01:30 Horizontal Rave
Rafush
No standing. No stage. Just a swarm of bodies melting into the subharmonic sermon - the revolution will be reclined. Full cult-core hypnosis in the liquid cathedral of deep grooves and sonic dissolution.
FRIDAY
Beneath the black sun of the afterhours, the raver’s catechism arises: to misbehave is to pray, the dancefloor a heretical grid where radical cardio births the queer psychedelic metaverse from sweat and strobe.
10:00 - 11:00 Aerobica Ultra
IvankaXpress
Welcome to neon nihilism fitcamp. Capitalism wants your corpse fit so we weaponise joy in this killer kardio kult. Stretch, hyperventilate, and repeat after me: "i am not a consumer - i am a war cry in a crop top".
12:00 - 13:30 Rave-isms
Katharin Ahrend & Christoffer Horlitz
MIC-CHECK ONE-TWO — (FEED US STATIC OR WE’LL CHEW THE WIRES!)
THEY CALL IT A ‘SCENE’ — (WHOSE KNIFE DREW THE CIRCLES?)
WHOSE BLOOD PAYS THE COVER? (WHOSE NAMES ON THE LAMINATE?)
‘FREE PARTY’ MY ASS — (LANDLORDS STILL EAT FIRST!)
SOUNDSYSTEMS SEIZE THE DOCKS TONIGHT — (PIRATE RADIO OR WALK THE PLANK!)
FISHBOWL’S CRACKED — (SPILL THE WATER, DROWN THE KINGS!)
A participatory discussion on rave culture and the paradoxical struggle between liberation and authoritarianisms. How does societal repression affect club/dance culture & how do the bodies in the margins endure? How do we organise and recontextualise ourselves & our dancefloor kin into reclaiming the nowtopian ravescapes? Pull up a chair, the fishbowl awaits.
14:00 - 15:30 An Uncomfortable Hangover
María Giaever & José Angulo
The beat is a smuggler - sneaking decolonial futures past border patrols of thought, while neocolonialism sweats in the VIP section, ordering another round of stolen rhythms. When the underground trembles, it’s not just the bass, it’s the fault lines of empire cracking beneath dancing feet. Bodies rewriting theory in real-time, drunk on the hangover of a world that won’t end.
17:30 - 19:00 Kaos, Kilowatt & Ketamine
Giorgia Gaia
A synaptic rave manifesto where kaos theory snorts the powders of the dancefloor and electricity becomes a language for rewriting reality.
20:30 - 22:00 Beware the Psychedelic Metaverse
Erica Lagalise
What does it mean to legalize psychedelics under capitalism? A corporate exorcism of the mystical. The histories of opium and marijuana scream their warnings—with medicalisation, opium becomes fentanyl, ecstasy becomes Prozac, and collective joy twists into individual pathology. Health is obedience! Party like it’s the end of the world - because it is. Dance, damn you—before they make it a symptom. More illegal raves now!
22:30 - 00:00 Pulling Râve Threads
mi-el
Sound-traveling through the dreamed and buried frequencies of rave culture’s past - crackling tapes, fragmented breaks and collaged samples. A narrative soundscape where defiance and transformation pulse in every rewound beat.
SATURDAY
On the day of giggling skulls, weeping confetti and grief balloons we samba with the unborn in the amniotic night - where graves hum nursery rhymes and every tear is a prism for the dead to sip light.
10:00 - 11:30 Sonic Spell by Access All Areas
Vera, Jorhito, AnaRosa
An experimental listening session merging psychomagic and hypnosis to dissolve you into trance. A healing sound ritual for deep-listeners, brain-dancers, and psychonauts to exorcise, surrender, and ignite the ember within.
12:00 - 13:30 Laughter Werkshop
Laraaji
A laughter therapy playshop with guided group laughter'cises, gentle live sound, and deep guided relaxation. We will cackle our way through the cathartic release of laughter to land in the honeyed, meditative silence of laughter’s afterglow.
14:00 - 15:30 Love the World or Get Killed Trying
Alvina Chamberland
A book club moment for the unhinged and insightful. Alvina’s Love the World or Get Killed Trying delivers poetic chaos, trans woman wit, and a survival guide for when laughter is the last rebellion left.
17:30 - 19:00 Grief Games
Camille Sapara Barton
By the rhythm of weeping percussion, by the salt of shared silence - we play this game not to win, but to dissolve the borders of our wounds. We will be sensing, feeling, being witnessed and touching into our grief. Come as you are - broken, furious, but living.
19:30 - 21:00 Beyt Byut (بيت بيوت) A Home of Many Homes
Bulaban Circus Berlin
A bird pecking at olives, tender and bright,
In stumbling shadows and games of air, He tastes the world without a care.
Then comes jelly - fluid, friendly, then strangely fixated.
With charm and guile, envy turned sharp behind a smile. Enter: the Lady in borrowed feathers, claiming sky with a silver needle.
Above the stage, defiance flies - How lightly we hold paradise.
'Beyt Byut' weaves tragedy and puppet-comedy into a resistance myth for our plundered world. Witness the fall. Catch the rising. A poetic, absurd tale of loss, resistance, and the gentle power of staying true.
21:30 - 23:00 Songs for Departures
Foundling
Live performance where harp strings echo the tremor of passing, the before and after melting when resonance outlives flesh and the last exhalation vibrates in the air like a perpetual chord.
23:30 - 01:00 Black Holes
Suley
A satirical sonic parable where extraterrestrials land in a near-future UK and offer gold and new technology in exchange for the Black British population. The journey explores political and Afrofuturistic alienness, through poetry, critical race theory and jazz - ultimately asking us: what are we willing to forego for the greater good?
SUNDAY
A full synaptic riot. Reality is a drunk accordion playing itself in a hall of funhouse mirrors, each reflection a parallel universe where clowns perform autopsy ballets and the laws of physics are written in disappearing ink. It just keeps getting weirder and weirder.
11:00 - 12:30 Harmonic Kiss
Avner & Ami
This is the chapel of shared breath
where tongues are tuning forks,
and every gasp births a harp note made of air and spit.
Press close - let our exhales braid into one vibrating string,
plucked by the teeth of the cosmos, ringing in the key of almost-kissed.
13:30 - 14:30 Clayborne Oracles
Myrgon
Fingers knead the primordial earth, coaxing forth faces that remember the future - each mask a stolen visage from the dreams of forgotten gods. The clay drinks your pulse, the mask wears you and when it is removed, something ancient blinks back.
16:30 - 18:30 Liquid Hearts, Wild Connections
Klusterkollectiv
We don’t come to perform - we come to melt. Strangers become waves, crashing into a sea of feels.
This ain’t a workshop - it’s a sonic love cult. Breathe in rhythm. Speak through sweat. Move like the music’s in your bones. Touch = gospel. Sound = glue. You = part of the pulse. Dive in. The flow is giving aliveness.
19:00 - 20:00 Weird Transmissions
SoundPreta
A radio performance where SoundPreta presents her research on strange and unconventional sounds. Music, stories and textures mix in a unique universe, awakening different sensations and possibilities of experience and immersion.
21:00 - 21:45 Relics: An Eyes Ones Blind
Joshua Serafin
A performance from the artist’s evolving cosmology ‘Lost Ancestors’. The work delves into forgotten narratives, unearthing genealogical heritage and its entanglement with a colonial past. Conceiving the body as a vessel in perpetual flux and displacement, Serafin navigates the disappearance of an identity once tied to a warrior lineage - one that is now obscure to trace. Till the last drop of breath, how does a body become a relic?