dexterred

👅 Our loves, last Lecken was such a dream… that we needed a few days to come back to our senses. 🥁Across two immaculate dance floors @perera_elsewhere , @sparkly.pony , @jaxx.tms , @killadujour and @djfartintheclub stretched the meaning of dance music and tenderized our bodies in many adventurous directions. 🧨That @dauwdmusic closing especially left us absolutely breathless, and those hours both went by in a flash and felt completely suspended outside of time. Rarely have those dance podiums seen such hot twerk action. ☁️ The entire choreography was beautifully supported by that heavenly set design directed by @dexterred and his lovely team @gucci_anoucci , @menishu___ and @kristof_mit_k . We were also so grateful, for the first time, to have an actual painting hanging at Lecken! 🌊Thank you @paulischlipf for going the extra mile. Much gracias also to our kind and attentive hosts, selectors, and awareness, our tireless graphic designer @fran_marcos_ , savvy wordsmith @sweetappledj , and the most dedicated club team at @kreuzwerk.berlin . 🐿️ Our team is a sedimented family who also has the good fortune to be able to make works of joy and beauty together. 🪩 But of course, the main protagonists of the night were you, dear Leckeners, who showed up like the belles of the ball ready to bust a move, crack a joke, get down and dirty, tender and wild at once. Thank you for your trust, and for riding with us once more through the timeless orbit of the rave capsule. Till next time, lovely Leckeners 🦋🌚 we lllove you 📸 @herrcid 🌋 ⭐️ @theasiajames

For Galossa Salavæ, I presented “Possibility Projections,” as the backdrop of the dance floor. Utilizing a list of many hundreds of English verbs rapidly projected in ever-changing random sequence, the piece intended to mesmerize guests into contemplation of the possibilities of action present in each and every moment, and how difficult it is to maintain this mindful awareness that our chooses in action create our collective reality. That this is, essentially, what life is.

Boom. 💥 The tiniest sneak preview of what you’re in for tomorrow at Galossa Salivæ. Excited about this one! See you on the dance floor!

GOLOSA Salivæ 💦 📍Void Hall, Wiesenweg 5-9, 10365 Berlin ⏰Saturday 04. October Line Up: Carly Zeng Eoin DJ Electrosexual B2B Mashyno SXCL Stage & Darkroom Design: Dexter Red Host: Linda From Work Photo night: Claudia Hampton Online TICKETS -> link in Bio Doors 23:00 / 18€ Cash only @carlyzeng @eoin_dj @electrosexual_ @mashyno @sxcl_666 @dexterred @linda_from_work @champton.doc @void_club @void_hall

God loves fags. 🤍🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💖

The 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒚 𝑷𝒊𝒕 is one of the main protagonists of the 𝑳𝒆𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒏 𝑹𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒅 era. We developed this concept together with @dexterred from the remains of the Flink Tank project (@zousophone ), tailored specially for our new (winter) home at @kreuzwerk.berlin in lieu of a second dance floor. It is an immersive, always transforming, mixed-used space for chilling, playing & wiggling. Aside from showcasing new thematic play room design, it also hosts some of our favorite selectors serving downtempo sxbeat—music to enchant your hearts, hips and lips. The Lecken Unholy Play Pit [18.4.2025] was built by @gucci_anoucci , @bbx_lea , @menishu___ , @kristof_mit_k and @dexterred , and captured through the lens of @pleasure.politics . We were in rapture! 🦋

Clubs are dream containers to reinvent the meaning of play, communion, catharsis. They are laboratories of affect, energy, and DIY technologies where we reinvent how to be more in tune with our bodies and more in touch with others. At Lecken, we never just take a club as we find it and press play. When we tumble at Kreuzwerk at least, we invite you to a step into an always different iteration of the ℙ𝕃𝔸𝕐 ℙ𝕀𝕋, the second dance floor turned chill’n’play space through the vision of @dexterred and his team, and soundtracked by artists digging deep into their sxbeat collections. This Easter, come witness the revelation that will be 𝑫𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝑫𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍! Images: @careyonwaywrdson Design: @irishabhjain

In the Hell (w)Hole created for all the demons at the 2024 edition of Whole Festival; one of my favorite installations to date. I pinky-swear I’ll actually get around to proper documentation of all my projects over the last two years; just so blessedly busy. And still more to come before the year’s end: 22.11: Flink Tank @ New Fears Gallery 29.11: Lecken @ Kreuzwerk 14.12: PRNCPTL @ Münze

Gearing up to do Whole Festival again, overseeing and designing intimate spaces. It’s the honor my life (so far!) to be so intimately involved in the creation of our fleeting flawed fabulous queer utopia. Here, a picture of me wet wild and tired from last year’s install. XOXO

Darkness light darkness. Almost to the solstice, which used to be my holy day but this month is now just so haunted. And Berlin, my god, so dark. How do we live like this? However, it’s necessary work to not hide from what it pulls up and I feel suddenly very aware that I’m unburdened. I spend my whole life trying to remember that a lifetime is a bunch of moments happening at rapid clip. And each millisecond of conscious existence is undeniably miraculous. We just somehow perpetually avoid that understanding because, I guess, it’s overwhelming. So I strive to remember what a privilege it is to be a person. Always forgetting. I’ve spent half my life in grief, angry and sad and so lonely that my chosen-/family just constantly disintegrating just simply gone way way too early and tragically but I notice that’s gracefully becoming a topic I’m exhausted by and would rather just come back to this place where I am and remember it’s happening. This moment. I am safe. Stop worrying. And the future we all seem to dread more and more: it’ll be what it’ll be. We can and should at least minimize our suffering. Be kind to others, yourself. Explore it all with curiosity. Seek the light but make peace with its absence. This is all so precious. 🫶💕

All the lovers on my mind. 🏹

I have been so happy with how the Festivalzentrum aka Pappelwaldkantine + Festivalbibliothek I designed for the 2022 edition of Ruhrtriennale turned out for its the summation of years of thought and experience in creating public spaces. The bulk of my design process occurred in the month following me completing the written half of my MA thesis (on queer spaces), and began in the same week of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and while my mother was terribly sick. All of these influences led me to desire to create a space that was above all warm, welcoming and comforting. I kept thinking of how much more optimistic the world felt when I was little and sought a space where those feelings could be accessed. Conceived as a form of a mental holiday resort for every and all persons, it centers the idea of familial comfort and childhood nostalgia within the visual vernacular of the endlessly inspiring industrial/natural-wild Ruhrgebiet. As an anti-authoritative gesture: the use of the space, and all of the furniture are highly modular. Guests are invited to continually transform the space to best fit their needs. As such, it serves as a cafe, restaurant, bar, library, classroom, nightclub and more. Additionally, around 100 various games are available for guests to enjoy, as a tool to create new interaction and reenforce bonds. The idea of everything being moveable/unstable is further influenced by witnessing so many refugees flood into Germany in this period of time, some with little carts or rolling suitcasing carrying whatever the managed to escape with. Movement, by choice or not, has been a constant (sometimes traumatic) force in my life, and the ostensibly lighthearted sun lounges I made from moving dollies was actually an attempt for me to use my medium to balance out something that was to me so overwhelmingly painful. I'm just so humbled to have seen so many people using the space, relaxing, smiling, dancing, playing, having a nice moment. Creating spaces which help make people feel comfortable and good is my life's greatest joy and it's an immense privilege to have such a large platform. Thank you to all involved in the project, and to all its guests. :)