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CITTIPUNKT Radio – CP Lesekugel #6 with XENOVERSE
Scenes from the Alien Party EPISODE 1 (1975, Samuel R. Delany)
Reader: John MacLean, Robin O'Shea, David Iselin Rickets, Kat Schneider, Maria Tammik, Elbe Trakal, Andres Villareal, Anna Winder,
Sound editing: Zach Hart and Elbe Trakal
Length: 36:56 min
Language: English
Scenes from the Alien Party – is a series of audioplays based on the common trope of the 'party scene' in sci-fi novels from the US-American New Wave. A party denotes a festive social event, or a political group with a certain ideological program, that in revolutionary times could function as a governing body of the populace it claims to represent. A party is more generally a collective of people, as in a hunting party. "To part" as in "to seperate" is common in the various meanings of the word, and marks its distinction from the larger social world. A group of people seperate themselves to care for each other, lift each other out of repression (both political and libidinal), and may create a space of identification that can function as a vehical of utopic transformation. Parties are both spaces of intensity in the present, and have a strong historical and future driven perspective. They hold a polyvalent temporality that his hosted in the collective.
The first Episode reads from Dhalgren (1975, Samuel R. Delany)
Xenoverse – is a Berlin-based science fiction and theory study group. Since 2019 we read, read to each other, listen, discuss and collaborate. Themes we slingshot are radical alterity, alienation, utopia and its discontents, queer temporality, dream work, people's punk and the alien party.
