https://heybabeitsem.com — hi, this is em Thu, 18 Jan 2024 23:13:02 +0000 https://heybabeitsem.com en https://heybabeitsem.com/Lou-Drago Thu, 18 Jan 2024 22:29:14 +0000 — hi, this is em https://heybabeitsem.com/Lou-Drago $('document').ready(function(){ $(".image-zoom-background").css("background","rgba(225, 225, 225, 0.95)"); $("body").css("background-color","initial"); $(".progress-container").css("visibility","visible"); }); Lou Drago A website for a Berlin-based artist &amp; dreamer. BriefDesign a beautiful, functional website for my friend, Lou. DisciplinesWeb design, identity design,&nbsp;programming (with Cargo). Lou Drago is an artist working with sound, words, other beings and affective experiences. Working across various mediums, they draw connections between the healing potential of sound, the necessity for collectivity and solidarity during neoliberal times, queer-anti-racist-feminisms, and meditation and related theories and AI. I love Lou, and I love the website I designed with them. Thanks, Lou! &lt;3 <img width="2880" height="1555" width_o="2880" height_o="1555" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4f766776ceb4bb7aa62781401f76fcb4c8b7b77f4bfb259b99f98afeddfa2bc2/Screenshot-2024-01-18-at-23.35.39.png" data-mid="202170621" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4f766776ceb4bb7aa62781401f76fcb4c8b7b77f4bfb259b99f98afeddfa2bc2/Screenshot-2024-01-18-at-23.35.39.png" /> Visit website <img width="2000" height="1092" width_o="2000" height_o="1092" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1eb0e51870bea6226c7fca560b471545ee3e9f331acea63c2e48efd7065d4b04/Screenshot-2024-01-18-at-23.45.35.png" data-mid="202171456" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1eb0e51870bea6226c7fca560b471545ee3e9f331acea63c2e48efd7065d4b04/Screenshot-2024-01-18-at-23.45.35.png" /> <img width="2000" height="1085" width_o="2000" height_o="1085" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fb074e8bf7fd8e73e0acedffdedab707eb1fc8e44d64a85da9aa51afcbdc800a/Screenshot-2024-01-18-at-23.45.01.png" data-mid="202171457" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fb074e8bf7fd8e73e0acedffdedab707eb1fc8e44d64a85da9aa51afcbdc800a/Screenshot-2024-01-18-at-23.45.01.png" /> Visit the website. https://heybabeitsem.com/Un-seen-Vol-II Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:23:37 +0000 — hi, this is em https://heybabeitsem.com/Un-seen-Vol-II $('document').ready(function(){ $(".image-zoom-background").css("background","rgba(225, 225, 225, 0.95)"); $("body").css("background-color","initial"); $(".progress-container").css("visibility","visible"); }); Un:seen Vol.&nbsp;II Poster and motion for a tender yet fierce party BriefCreate promotional material for a DJ and art collective. DisciplinesConcept, graphic design, illustration, motion design Un:seen is a fierce femme*- and POC-centric DJ and art collective. Their second party encourages people to be radically vulberable.Made up of artists from underrepresented groups, the Un:seen folks strive to move away from the periphery and claim their rightful space on the dance-floor. For their second edition, they wished to approach empowerment through Radical Vulnerability. In Berlin’s Techno scene (and in the electronic music scene in general), the aesthetic is mostly quite gritty and black &amp; white. Even in 2019, there are hardly femme*-centred spaces. This project’s theme seemed like a perfect opportunity to counter that. I chose Playfair Display Italic for its open-sourceness and its beautiful soft curves, and based on that, created a key visual that plays on the mystique inherent in Techno and on Un:seen’s name - where underrepresented folks who are usually hidden from sight become seen. I believe that internalised misogyny and Femmephobia are too common as phenomenona. Even in queer spaces things that are considered feminine are often looked down on. Under capitalism, we are taught that the less tenderness and vulnerability we show, the more we are rewarded. Womxn are taught, similarly, that in order to step up in capitalism, they have to adopt masculine traits and abandon traditionally feminine ones. Un:seen is lead by fierce womxn, who are not ashamed of their femininity. I think no one should be. The purple and pink tones in this project are a celebration of that (and of my newfound love for colors.) <img width="1286" height="1819" width_o="1286" height_o="1819" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e29826b70b612ceeb5b739436b8c0493719cbb1f2961a2730c452a30bbe546bd/poster-smallerer-compressor.jpg" data-mid="69135119" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e29826b70b612ceeb5b739436b8c0493719cbb1f2961a2730c452a30bbe546bd/poster-smallerer-compressor.jpg" /> <img width="960" height="960" width_o="960" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/76b5f754e78d222c8bb18313eb0df6835a2316699ef6ef10c397b0fa2076d6e0/Artboard-40.5x-compressor.png" data-mid="69135117" border="0" data-scale="50" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/76b5f754e78d222c8bb18313eb0df6835a2316699ef6ef10c397b0fa2076d6e0/Artboard-40.5x-compressor.png" /><img width="960" height="960" width_o="960" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/76b5f754e78d222c8bb18313eb0df6835a2316699ef6ef10c397b0fa2076d6e0/Artboard-40.5x-compressor.png" data-mid="69135117" border="0" data-scale="27" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/76b5f754e78d222c8bb18313eb0df6835a2316699ef6ef10c397b0fa2076d6e0/Artboard-40.5x-compressor.png" /> https://heybabeitsem.com/Julia-Klenovsky Thu, 18 Jan 2024 22:56:49 +0000 — hi, this is em https://heybabeitsem.com/Julia-Klenovsky $('document').ready(function(){ $(".image-zoom-background").css("background","rgba(225, 225, 225, 0.95)"); $("body").css("background-color","initial"); $(".progress-container").css("visibility","visible"); }); Julia Klenovsky A website for a one of my favorite illustrators. BriefDesign a utopian, mischievous website for my friend, Julia. DisciplinesWeb design, identity design, programming (with Cargo). Julia Klenovsky is an illustrator, artist, and designer; enthusiastic lover of details and a good narrative.&nbsp;Julia’s conceptual and painterly works tell stories through a combination of image and text. I love Julia, and I love the website I designed with them. Thanks for your trust, Julia! &lt;3 <img width="2000" height="1129" width_o="2000" height_o="1129" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/df4619022f0f1e71bd43345987ff1a63a0222cb19a79b0e8ac2d69598a901150/Screenshot-2024-01-18-at-23.44.05.png" data-mid="202172132" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/df4619022f0f1e71bd43345987ff1a63a0222cb19a79b0e8ac2d69598a901150/Screenshot-2024-01-18-at-23.44.05.png" /> Visit website <img width="2000" height="1089" width_o="2000" height_o="1089" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5ecde9eb8ed5d89c499b03a70d61002e0befa2cfa36f624e7893f0a3472126b0/Screenshot-2024-01-18-at-23.45.56.png" data-mid="202172133" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5ecde9eb8ed5d89c499b03a70d61002e0befa2cfa36f624e7893f0a3472126b0/Screenshot-2024-01-18-at-23.45.56.png" /> <img width="2000" height="1094" width_o="2000" height_o="1094" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/816e654455b974c4be6b752e3fa47807c3529cd76c29acce2d2ce344fb849f62/Screenshot-2024-01-18-at-23.46.31.png" data-mid="202172134" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/816e654455b974c4be6b752e3fa47807c3529cd76c29acce2d2ce344fb849f62/Screenshot-2024-01-18-at-23.46.31.png" /> Visit the website. https://heybabeitsem.com/SIGH Fri, 24 Nov 2023 22:31:09 +0000 — hi, this is em https://heybabeitsem.com/SIGH $('document').ready(function(){ $(".image-zoom-background").css("background","rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.95)"); $("body").css("background-color","rgb(0, 0, 0, 1)"); $(".progress-container").css("visibility","visible"); $(".pinned_top").css("visibility","hidden"); }); <img width="918" height="16251" width_o="918" height_o="16251" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4a49db7023d98a743c927b50506262492b900c0d4addf266b8e89a7ac668215a/scrollable2.png" data-mid="197775448" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/918/i/4a49db7023d98a743c927b50506262492b900c0d4addf266b8e89a7ac668215a/scrollable2.png" /> (originally published inSOFT EIS issue 3: LOSS) https://heybabeitsem.com/KUIR-Poetry Sun, 29 Nov 2020 11:54:09 +0000 — hi, this is em https://heybabeitsem.com/KUIR-Poetry $('document').ready(function(){ $(".image-zoom-background").css("background","rgba(225, 225, 225, 0.95)"); $("body").css("background-color","initial"); $(".progress-container").css("visibility","visible"); }); KUIR An online magazine for anti-colonial queer poetry&nbsp; BriefDesign a multi-lingual online poetry magazine and bring it to life. DisciplinesWeb design, identity design, editorial design, programming (with Webflow.) (illustration in project thumbnail by Guilhermina Augusti) KUIR is a series of poetry events with a special focus on trans* BIPOC migrants and performers, centering anti-racist, anti-patriarchal, anti-fascist, anti-capitalistic and anti-(neo)-colonialist values.During COVID-19, the physical events could no longer take place, and there was a need for a digital platform to fill the gap. I designed, built and launched the platform as an online magazine for commissioned videos, articles, critiques and essays. <img width="1913" height="1067" width_o="1913" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/27c49e31bbcf9ad9798e2b8289d50b7c69117d913c71754f3b750f359aca3ff7/screenshot-tinified.png" data-mid="90484217" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/27c49e31bbcf9ad9798e2b8289d50b7c69117d913c71754f3b750f359aca3ff7/screenshot-tinified.png" /> Visit project website Visit project website KUIR’s two content sections, Articles and Poems, are each designed to fit the section’s needs. Articles sport larger text size and a sans-serif font, while the poems retain a more classic poetry look-and-feel. KUIR uses gradients as the main ingredient in its visual language, and its colors are inspired by pride flags (the trans* one in particular.) <img width="1923" height="1200" width_o="1923" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2ae980b60d7fc09ebb8f5545374f6141b3a5bce115e39eecdccebf495593ad0d/poem-tinified.png" data-mid="90485997" border="0" data-scale="90" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2ae980b60d7fc09ebb8f5545374f6141b3a5bce115e39eecdccebf495593ad0d/poem-tinified.png" /> A platform by and for migrants, KUIR is multi-lingual. Every article and poem is available on the website in up to four languages. Visit the website. https://heybabeitsem.com/Artikel-11 Sun, 31 Jan 2021 08:45:00 +0000 — hi, this is em https://heybabeitsem.com/Artikel-11 $('document').ready(function(){ $(".image-zoom-background").css("background","rgba(225, 225, 225, 0.95)"); $("body").css("background-color","initial"); $(".progress-container").css("visibility","visible"); }); Artikel 11* An online exhibition for participants of an&nbsp;Ubuntus e.V. project BriefDesign an online exhibition space for photographic exercises. DisciplinesWeb design, identity design, programming (with Webflow.) (with Niklas Krüger) Artikel 11* is an online exhibition, showcasing selected photographic works by the project’s participants. These engage with topics such as Disability Rights, Vulnerability and Solidarity amidst 2020’s COVID-19 pandemic. Ubuntus e.V. is a cross-generational art education program that creates space for collective engagement with contemporary political art. This space is always significantly influenced by its participants and their individual realities of life. Article 11* was significantly shaped by the disabled and able-bodied people and the people with and without experiences of flight and/or trauma who took part in this project. <img width="2611" height="1457" width_o="2611" height_o="1457" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7ecfbbec8005b13f5428b23f96dfca654c29df6ad096fa3e02c3cd049aaa79e3/screenshot.png" data-mid="97191713" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7ecfbbec8005b13f5428b23f96dfca654c29df6ad096fa3e02c3cd049aaa79e3/screenshot.png" /> Visit project website Visit project website Participants worked together in small groups (educational sponsorships), that consisted of an adult specifically vulnerable to Covid-19 pandemic and/or who is disabled, a child or teenager with or without disability who has experience of flight and trauma and a child or teenager with or without disability who has no experience of flight.&nbsp;The participants primarily interacted in a virtual project-space: Each week offered new exemplary impulses from contemporary art combined with photography briefs. Participants worked with different forms of materials and input that they received online and offline. <img width="1943" height="1212" width_o="1943" height_o="1212" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e5b611559718e6fce90c88d037f107ee8379fa35374ab1c3880b1885aeda01d9/screenshot2.png" data-mid="97191803" border="0" data-scale="90" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e5b611559718e6fce90c88d037f107ee8379fa35374ab1c3880b1885aeda01d9/screenshot2.png" /> At the end of the project, the participants engaged with a specific piece of contemporary art, which reflected on inclusivity, disability rights, vulnerability and solidarity. This served as a base to form and clarify individual desires and standpoints from which the participants would then develop and execute their personal photographic staging. Professional and personal assistance was provided throughout the course of this project. <img width="2000" height="1248" width_o="2000" height_o="1248" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5cc8eb0463a7b3d608bfdb28d2a53dd34285a8378d1f5a75db1e6edecd179f2e/screenshot3.png" data-mid="97192008" border="0" data-scale="90" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5cc8eb0463a7b3d608bfdb28d2a53dd34285a8378d1f5a75db1e6edecd179f2e/screenshot3.png" /> Accessibility is a priority for Ubuntus e.V. and for this project particularily, and the webssite was designed with this in mind. It is also multi-lingual, as are the project’s participants, currently available in three languages with more to come. Visit the website. https://heybabeitsem.com/Dion-de-Rossi Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:23:35 +0000 — hi, this is em https://heybabeitsem.com/Dion-de-Rossi $('document').ready(function(){ $(".image-zoom-background").css("background","rgba(225, 225, 225, 0.95)"); $("body").css("background-color","initial"); $(".progress-container").css("visibility","visible"); }); Dion de Rossi Flyers and business cards for a queer sexological bodyworker BriefCreate a visual identity, business cards and flyers for a sexological bodyworker. DisciplinesConcept, graphic design, illustration, web design. Photography by Nat Portnoy Dion de Rossi is a sex and intimacy coach, bodyworker, educator and sexwitch. They are committed to creating work that inspires others to explore their desires, bodies and sexualities.When Dion asked me to work with them, I was thrilled. I was already immersed in the world of sex positivity and sexual empowerment and gained so much from the work of pleasure activists like Dion, so I was ready to give something back. <img width="1000" height="1872" width_o="1000" height_o="1872" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5835dc5dae3a5f8cf75e8dd80c2a8c10dcaf4fd70a3a8f3d61a3728894b36ec7/flyer-front5x-compressor.png" data-mid="69135099" border="0" data-scale="51" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5835dc5dae3a5f8cf75e8dd80c2a8c10dcaf4fd70a3a8f3d61a3728894b36ec7/flyer-front5x-compressor.png" /> <img width="1120" height="2100" width_o="1120" height_o="2100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1ed62d499617172534b9eac758b6127c9b6c7e7d9ae5883af1bc12ae03322ef8/flyer-back5x.png" data-mid="69135098" border="0" data-scale="51" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1ed62d499617172534b9eac758b6127c9b6c7e7d9ae5883af1bc12ae03322ef8/flyer-back5x.png" /> Dion equipped me with beautiful, soft-but-bold photos taken by Nat Portnoy, and instructions to be “femme and playful.” I matched the photos’ vibe in color and in atmosphere, and chose Salomé for Dion’s logo, for that ‘70s erotic novel vibe. I reformatted the flyer text I was given as a sexier variation of a consent form. <img width="721" height="1261" width_o="721" height_o="1261" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a4fa97b4fb9961a667d1f5572cf8bdea6dd721a8d31673f95328a31a8b9d5ae5/businesscard-back-futura5x-compressor.png" data-mid="69135100" border="0" data-scale="70" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/721/i/a4fa97b4fb9961a667d1f5572cf8bdea6dd721a8d31673f95328a31a8b9d5ae5/businesscard-back-futura5x-compressor.png" /><img width="721" height="1261" width_o="721" height_o="1261" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a93dd7a74b24b9689ce59acd4ad0734aba00fa5809e15b277083ee7dace63cf9/businesscard-front-var45x-compressor.png" data-mid="69135101" border="0" data-scale="70" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/721/i/a93dd7a74b24b9689ce59acd4ad0734aba00fa5809e15b277083ee7dace63cf9/businesscard-front-var45x-compressor.png" /> Dion identifies as a modern-day witch (more on that here). For the business card’s back side, I used those witchy leanings as inspiration, and dived into a tarot card’s backside-like aesthetic. I tried keeping the pleasure-filled body and sex toys presented as gender-neutral as possible, owing to the fact that Dion works with people of all genders, and their target audience is first and foremost the queer and trans* community. We're currently in early stages of work on a website redesign. This is a sneak preview. https://heybabeitsem.com/Lecken-Zine Sat, 30 Jan 2021 22:05:17 +0000 — hi, this is em https://heybabeitsem.com/Lecken-Zine $('document').ready(function(){ $(".image-zoom-background").css("background","rgba(225, 225, 225, 0.95)"); $("body").css("background-color","initial"); $(".progress-container").css("visibility","visible"); }); Lecken Zine #1 Contributions to the rave collective’s community zine. DisciplinesEditorial design, graphic design. (photos by Melina Milz and Mohnish Ladge) Lecken is an erogenous rave with a strong commitment to the dance floor — its mission: making Berlin’s queer rave spaces more inclusive and responsive to the needs of the oppressed, giving priority to the unpriveleged. This zine is a time capsule of a season halfway between cancellation and radicalization.Filled with critical essays, pornographic sci-fi, tactics for queer survival, sexy illustrations, and beyond, “2020 Canceled” is a resource to hold the Lecken community over through these strange days, created with love by the collective, and our friends, collaborators, and co-conspirators. For the zine, I wrote and designed a Forest Slut Ritual. In addition, I designed the zine’s cover, a foldable resource on Harm Reduction, and several others spreads. <img width="2667" height="2000" width_o="2667" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/222f246e7cf79377cdc9f4c349f0b77ce885b1ed9532cf7845389e27e0d0d191/forestslut-final-2020-08-12.jpg" data-mid="97211800" border="0" data-scale="80" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/222f246e7cf79377cdc9f4c349f0b77ce885b1ed9532cf7845389e27e0d0d191/forestslut-final-2020-08-12.jpg" /> The suspension of nightlife, and cultural life more generally, has meant not only a loss of income and already tenuous material stability, but also the loss of group sociality and the pleasures of the collective body. Social distancing raised the question: what exactly is the fabric of queer community and solidarity made up of beyond the dancefloor and the darkroom? We realized how important it is that the connections we make in the club do not evaporate once we leave the afterparty, and that in order to extend, connect, check in, and show up for one another, there need to be more event formats, spaces, and structures outside the club around which we can live and flesh out our shared principles. <img width="1000" height="2000" width_o="1000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c683f3c084a05ae4797f0e3fe9d25c4b6bdef59f13e153c022bd8390bc9fc7a/HarmReduction-final-2020-08-10-1.png" data-mid="97167083" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2c683f3c084a05ae4797f0e3fe9d25c4b6bdef59f13e153c022bd8390bc9fc7a/HarmReduction-final-2020-08-10-1.png" /> <img width="1000" height="2000" width_o="1000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/76e3dd8f2089e1f41199ada42738f14e8639bd22370457650fc8e753aa60213d/HarmReduction-final-2020-08-10-2.png" data-mid="97157531" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/76e3dd8f2089e1f41199ada42738f14e8639bd22370457650fc8e753aa60213d/HarmReduction-final-2020-08-10-2.png" /> We also need more robust practices of everyday solidarity—more sober gatherings, more movement practices independent of large and expensive sound systems, more counseling spaces and services, more mutual-aid platforms for queers, more attention to and engagement with other movements and organizations in the city to better understand what is needed, where and how we can help, and who we can fight alongside with. This is a moment of urgency: for justice, for care and for activation, especially in this time when the world feels like it’s on pause, falling apart, and being spectacularly reborn, all at the same time. <img width="2645" height="2000" width_o="2645" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c51fbc51c10b5eb861cba6c207a6897ccf4cd415a996d071dc341d818fc39739/diagram-final-2020-08-10.png" data-mid="97157750" border="0" data-scale="80" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c51fbc51c10b5eb861cba6c207a6897ccf4cd415a996d071dc341d818fc39739/diagram-final-2020-08-10.png" /> 2020 is not a lost year. It has given us more time to reflect, educate, exchange, and come together around issues we often have talked about in the club but maybe only rarely have had enough time to dedicate to. We’ve had longer and more intimate conversations with friends we tend to only see in clubs. We’ve spent more time outside, ventured deeper into abandoned Berlin, and looked closer at nature. In club culture we are used to thinking that pleasure lies in excess and hyper-stimulation but pleasure can also be simple and low-key. We might not be able to dance together for some time but we can still come together in other ways, to share knowledge and foster collaboration around issues that are urgent for the queer nightlife left: harm reduction and queer (mental) health; community building, accessibility, and intimacy; intersectional, anti-racist, transfeminist, decolonial, eco-socialist, and anti-/post-capitalist politics. If we are going to fight together, we must do more than dance together. <img width="2645" height="2000" width_o="2645" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1b563dd6fc1df5fe8c96122dea93bb66a334c1bf46b76a122d945fdd031a814c/queerhouse-smaller-1.png" data-mid="97167112" border="0" data-scale="80" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1b563dd6fc1df5fe8c96122dea93bb66a334c1bf46b76a122d945fdd031a814c/queerhouse-smaller-1.png" /> Get the zine here. https://heybabeitsem.com/Isotronic Thu, 18 Jan 2024 23:13:02 +0000 — hi, this is em https://heybabeitsem.com/Isotronic $('document').ready(function(){ $(".image-zoom-background").css("background","rgba(225, 225, 225, 0.95)"); $("body").css("background-color","initial"); $(".progress-container").css("visibility","visible"); }); Isotronic A website &amp; identity expansion for a glass quality control company BriefDesign a website that would please the eyes of engineers &amp; managers. DisciplinesWeb design, identity design, icon design. Isotronic creates quality control products and services for the pharmaceutical glass industry.We worked together to create a website that is clean &amp; functional, while still serving as eye candy. While working on their About page, I named one of their employees “Vials McVials”. Please don’t tell them I did that. <img width="2000" height="1074" width_o="2000" height_o="1074" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e02b54edfd0ecc8cd9d0eeea5e6aefa29d3af9a1dc30c8ffcb5a61ca57847645/Screenshot-2024-01-19-at-00.13.25.png" data-mid="202172784" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e02b54edfd0ecc8cd9d0eeea5e6aefa29d3af9a1dc30c8ffcb5a61ca57847645/Screenshot-2024-01-19-at-00.13.25.png" /> Visit project website Visit project website <img width="2000" height="1128" width_o="2000" height_o="1128" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5bd72ac20bb01b4348af208468b08843ee7ce4dd45091bab8f083d04d759e8dc/Screenshot-2024-01-19-at-00.13.49.png" data-mid="202172785" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5bd72ac20bb01b4348af208468b08843ee7ce4dd45091bab8f083d04d759e8dc/Screenshot-2024-01-19-at-00.13.49.png" /> Visit the website. https://heybabeitsem.com/Lasting-Dance-at-Last Mon, 01 Nov 2021 17:33:13 +0000 — hi, this is em https://heybabeitsem.com/Lasting-Dance-at-Last $('document').ready(function(){ $(".image-zoom-background").css("background","rgba(225, 225, 225, 0.95)"); $("body").css("background-color","initial"); $(".progress-container").css("visibility","visible"); }); Lasting Dance at LastDesign for Lecken’s post-COVID-19 rave and workshop program DisciplinesGraphic design, motion design (photos by Damian Carta,&nbsp;Camille Lafourcade,&nbsp;Filipe Serro) Lecken is an erogenous queer rave, and this was its first edition since COVID-19, preceded by a program of free somatic workshops and performances. I designed stickers and social media posts to celebrate the return to the dancefloor.&nbsp;“We often don’t realise how important dancing alone, or dancing in clubs, is for us. It allows us to engage with people without talking. We can communicate with our bodies to maybe reach a state of euphoria. When we’re sitting at home on our couches, during lockdown, trying to just survive, we lose access to this way of communing, and falsify it with things like the internet or drugs. But If you just focus on going to the party and moving with everybody, you start to feel like a pack of wolves, even if you’re not attacking anything or have no end goal. The purpose is putting euphoria back into your body, and that’s brilliant! And we don’t realise that this is why clubs exist, I think.” (Austin Fagan) <img width="1080" height="1080" width_o="1080" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2f06e5bb45e17dd1f0805aba7048a03261ada3a5aa6567cfe9a9a65d6b2a7f3c/legs-ig-post.png" data-mid="123295820" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2f06e5bb45e17dd1f0805aba7048a03261ada3a5aa6567cfe9a9a65d6b2a7f3c/legs-ig-post.png" /> Dance at last! Dance as if you hadn’t been at the dance for years. Dance out all that's been repressed. Dance so hard that your dance spills all over the streets. Dance for the other in yourself and for yourself in others. Dance like a trance. Dance to feel more. Dance is many things. Set your intention on the dance. Dance at last in a lasting dance at last. <img width="2161" height="3841" width_o="2161" height_o="3841" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e5fbd80b228dc6db05ddd89031eb0425a2ad91849127df9389a7672976d21d58/draussen-ig1story2x.png" data-mid="123296118" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e5fbd80b228dc6db05ddd89031eb0425a2ad91849127df9389a7672976d21d58/draussen-ig1story2x.png" /> <img width="2161" height="3841" width_o="2161" height_o="3841" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b71c4b9561fd52c4989898b152c433fc5a7a9ddf3df234e7b3ab9bfa5a78344/draussen-ig2story2x.png" data-mid="123296119" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0b71c4b9561fd52c4989898b152c433fc5a7a9ddf3df234e7b3ab9bfa5a78344/draussen-ig2story2x.png" /> Before the party, Lecken hosted a two-day program of free pre-rave workshops, titled "Racing Bodies, Raving Minds". The program expands on the community-weaving practices Lecken’s network initiated during the pandemic, featuring elements of somatic activism, movement practice, book clubs, collective intimacy and critical pedagogy. During the pandemic we learned the significance of such practices for deepening the bonds of queer kinship and everyday solidarity beyond the dance floor.Funded by the Berlin initiative, DraussenStadt, this program reflects the conviction that arts and culture are not only aesthetic disciplines but socio-political practices with material, sensorial and affective qualities, capable of conjuring engaged togetherness, healing potential and collective transformation. <img width="2245" height="1587" width_o="2245" height_o="1587" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/54641ee52e5e329682bbf9db885665431d5dc2220a5f522edaa2fd453eb79ade/fantasy-board-print.png" data-mid="123296483" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/54641ee52e5e329682bbf9db885665431d5dc2220a5f522edaa2fd453eb79ade/fantasy-board-print.png" />