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quEAR! offers auditory tracks, performances and sound installations that deal with the themes of “trans*, inter, and queer“. Noise is elsewhere. Emphasized are soft sounds. It’s a sensitive exploration of the auditory channels, of the unheard and undreamt.

The Audio-Festival is a panel of people coming together for exchanging and presenting their work. It offers various opportunities to explore how sound as a multifaceted medium can be used for expression.

Discrimination is multidimensional. People who face it seldom find a vote. The festival shall give a voice especially to them. It tries to show effective ways to encourage these voices to reclaim the public sphere.

quEAR! is empowerment, the protest against heteronormativity, against exclusion by the white, non-disabled, heterosexual normality. For this we offer loudspeakers, amplifiers, workshops and a big stage. Sometimes it’s all starting with a soldering gun to make the forms melt away...

quEAR! supports networking. We welcome our huge posse of alliances! We are part of the project-group of Schwarzer Kanal and we try to support the project plus trans*interqueer ways of living with this festival. The festival is free of charge and D.I.Y. We try to make sure that the festival is accessible to people with limited or no vision and wheelchairs.

trans*interqueer lifestyles and practices cannot be taken for granted. Their space must continually be renegotiated. Discrimination and violence are not isolated incidents. They are the result of institutional, structural and cultural power struggles and thereby have a heightened political relevance.

The meaning of “queer” is not limited to “gay lesbian” or “gay lesbian bisexual transgender”. Queer is to be interpreted as “different from the norm” and thereby challenges and questions the boundaries presented to us by heteronormative society. The term “queer” is intended to encourage activity that goes beyond sexual orientation or individual identity. It is more than the negation of prohibitive or unbearable conditions. Politically, “queer” refers to a utopian space that may not yet exist but that can be defined and described and that we must continuously strive to create. Check it out if you want to get an idea what this could be about!