Extensive show of works by the three iconographic underground bands. The book project “M_Dokumente” focuses on the explicitly female perspective of the all-female bands Mania D., Malaria! and Matador on the West Berlin music and art scene from the late 1970s on.
The three bands around Bartel, Köster and Gut played concerts, released records and toured around the world in different formations from 1979 on. What stood out and was new was the self-determined appearance of the musicians, which was reflected in their music and lyrics as well as in their unique style and the genre-crossing approach of “more art in the music, more music in the art”. To this day, the three M_Bands are considered visionary, they shaped a new image of women in pop culture and are pioneers and role models for important and necessary emancipatory movements in the music industry.
With oral history documentary by and with Beate Bartel, Gudrun Gut and Bettina Köster as well as contributions by Nick Cave, Diedrich Diederichsen, Christine Hahn, Peter Bömmels, Mark Reeder, Scumeck Sabottka, and Annett Scheffel.
‘Beginning in West Berlin, in 1979, with the inception of Mania D., spawning Malaria! and later Matador; in a time when music was essential to movement, to escape, to space, to the scene and to the rebellion of the people; three bands stood for trial and error, trial and terror, anti-conformity, and anti-consumerism, for girl power and sticking it to the man, and for just doing whatever the hell they wanted.’ ANNIKA HENDERSON (ANIKA)
21.10. Eröffnung
M_DOKUMENTE BOOK LAUNCH (Ventil Verlag)
Talk
22.10. + 23.10.
M_SESSIONS RECORD LAUNCH (Monika/Moabit Music)
MONIKA WERKSTATT plays M_Session (Mania D., Malaria!, Matador) Live
40Years MALARIA! und vieles mehr
24.10. FINISSAGE
Film + Musik
M_DOKUMENTE : All about MANIA D., MALARIA!, MATADOR
21st-24th October 2021
silent green | Gerichtstraße 35 | 13347 Berlin
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Photo credit: Ventil Verlag
