Lou Drago is a Berlin-based multi-disciplinary artist, curator, writer and radio producer/ DJ. Working across various mediums, they draw connections between the healing potential of sound, the necessity for collectivity during neoliberal times, queer-feminisms, and meditation and related theories. Their artistic works works Suspending Time: meditations for accessing alternate space/time in music, and Dissident Vespers, fuse Drago’s experiential-theoretical research with their sound-based work to create listening occasions for being-together and being with oneself, with others. These works both speculate on altering a listener’s perception of time with the hypothesis that this alternate experiencing of time has expansive and healing potential. Drago’s practice is always collective to varying degrees, and they reject the prevailing notion of the singular artist in favour of acknowledging the pluralities of experiences that contribute to any given work. This trajectory of thought is exemplified in recent works New Feathers and Female Copulatory Vocalisation, in which Drago transcribes and arranges fragments of conversations with comrades into texts that reveal the collective (un)conscious of the group of the selected subjects.
Drago’s theoretical recent research is concerned with finding ways to coalesce all of those who refuse or fail to fit the neoliberal mould in an attempt to reunite what we have witnessed to be an increasingly fractured Left. Aware of the role identity politics have played in dividing the Left, Drago navigates between their commitment to gender abolitionism and other xeno-feminist desires and a politics of Radical Sociability that aims to enact an intersectional affinity-based politics. Drago is a founding member of XenoEntities Network, Berlin, a collective who focuses their research on queer, gender and feminist studies and their interactions with digital technologies. They curate and produce, Transience, a regular show on Cashmere Radio, Berlin that focuses on experimental, ambient and experient music that aims to offer anxiety relief to its listeners. They have shown work, curated shows and spoken on panels across Europe and internationally.
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Drago’s theoretical recent research is concerned with finding ways to coalesce all of those who refuse or fail to fit the neoliberal mould in an attempt to reunite what we have witnessed to be an increasingly fractured Left. Aware of the role identity politics have played in dividing the Left, Drago navigates between their commitment to gender abolitionism and other xeno-feminist desires and a politics of Radical Sociability that aims to enact an intersectional affinity-based politics. Drago is a founding member of XenoEntities Network, Berlin, a collective who focuses their research on queer, gender and feminist studies and their interactions with digital technologies. They curate and produce, Transience, a regular show on Cashmere Radio, Berlin that focuses on experimental, ambient and experient music that aims to offer anxiety relief to its listeners. They have shown work, curated shows and spoken on panels across Europe and internationally.
website by em steinberg

upcoming
21-23.04.2023 | The Midnight Zone — Hosek Contemporary, Berlin, DE |
01.05.2023 | TRANSIENCE #49 with Lou Drago and Synthtati — Cashmere Radio, Berlin, DE |
20.05.2023 | infinity rug — tba, CH |
26.05.2023 | ambient DJ set - R4R — Planteta Manas, Lisbon, PT |
07.06.2023 | reading - Haus für Poesie, DE |
past (selection)
11.03.2023 | TRANSIENCE #48 with Dan Nicholls (live) — Cashmere Radio, Berlin, DE |
25.02.2023 | infinity rug — tanzhaus nrw, Düsseldorf, DE |
11.02.2023 | ambient DJ set - Contact, Tokyo, JP |
27.11.2022 | Here, a nut falls twice — ICA, London, UK |
18.11.2022 | infinity rug — Planeta Manas, Lisbon, PT |
15.10.2022 | Fragments for Affinity, Unsound, Krakow, PL |
1+2.10.2022 | infinity rug — Hosek Contemporary, Berlin, DE |
18.09.2022 | Fragments for Affinity, Peripheral Alliances, Inning, DE |
28.08.2022 | infinity rug — WHOLE Festival, Ferropolis, DE |
13.08.2022 | Fragments for Affinity — Documenta Fifteen, Kassel, DE |
01.07.2022 | infinity rug — Munchner Volkstheatre, Munich, DE |
30.06.2022 | infinity rug — Angewandte Festival, Vienna |
06.05.2022 | infinity rug — Planeta Manas, Lisbon, PT |
24.04.2022 | Fragments for Affinity — Tanzhaus Zürich, CH |
01.04.2022 | infinity rug — Rietveld Akademie |
22.01.2022 | infinity rug — Tanztage — Sophiensaele, Berlin, DE |
10.12.2021 | infinity rug — Planeta Manas, Lisbon, PT |
23.10.2021 | Suspending Time — Shedhalle, Zürich, CH |
17.10.2021 | Suspending Time — La Casa Encendida, Madrid, ES |
14.09.2021 | infinity rug — Festival TransArt Museion, Bolzano, IT |
06+07.2021 | Suspending Time — Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, DE |
29.08.2020 | Dissident Vespers — ACUD, Berlin, DE |
15.02.2020 | ambient DJ set - Traumabarundkino, Berlin, DE |
28.01.2020 | ambient DJ set - transmediale opening — HKW, Berlin, DE |
16.01.2020 | ambient DJ set - Säule/ Berghain/ Panorama Bar, Berlin, DE |
20.12.2019 | ambient DJ set - R4R — Beursschouwburg, Brussels, BE |
18.12.2019 | ambient DJ set - Bonobo, Tokyo, JP |
19.10.2019 | ambient DJ set - Weeeirdos — Ohm, Berlin, DE |
05.10.2019 | Dissident Vespers — Night Embassy, Berlin, DE |
26.08.2019 | Day Rave — Nowy Teatr, Warschau, PL |
20.07.2019 | Nachtkultur residency — 20ft Radio, Kyiv, UA |
26.07.2019 | ambient DJ set - CSD Reclaim: R4R x Lecken x Mina — Berlin, DE |
29.06.2019 | ambient DJ set - Club Kaiku, Helsinki, FI |
20.06.2019 | talk - Saturnalia — Macao, Milan, IT |
13.04.2019 | ambient DJ set - Südblock, Berlin, DE |
17.03.2019 | ambient DJ set - R4R — Traumabaundkino, Berlin, DE |
03.02.2019 | Suspending Time — Wellington,NZ |
18.12.2018 | ambient DJ set - Alpenglühen — Siroco, Madrid, ES |
24.11.2018 | Suspending Time — HSE Art Gallery, Moskow, RU |
10.11.2018 | ambient DJ set - Discipline — Void Club, Berlin, DE |
19.10.2018 | ambient DJ set - Suspension, Lisbon, PT |
08.10.2018 | ambient DJ set - Force Field — Święta Krowa, Kraków, PL |
05+08.2018 | Suspending Time — Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, DE |
13.07.2018 | Day Rave — Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, DE |
16.03.2018 | ambient DJ set - Arkaoda, Berlin, DE |