COVEN Berlin

COVEN Berlin is a sex-positive transdisciplinary genderbender collective focused on feminism, love, gender, sexuality and art. Founded in 2013 in Berlin by Lo Pecado and Judy Mièl, it is on its way to conqueer the universe with a feminist conflation of provocative fine-lined aesthetics and critical brainwaves in form of artworks, interviews and essays, always using a breath of irony. COVEN Berlin wants to create an open sphere with words and visuals, a massive weapon to deconstruct the assimilated social structures on sexuality and gender, to transmit a positive message on sex, to defy body politics, to transversally think about immigration, race and sex and to fight against mind-constricted stereotypes on sex and different gender expressions. COVEN Berlin is an open space where communication flows in multiple directions and we welcome all those interested to make contributions in whatever form of expression you feel most comfortable with. We want to grow, learn, create, play, perform and share.

DELTA VENUS

Women in media are so often portrayed as objects, that for them being the subject is a truly unusual act. We are constantly exposed with the images of the True…

LABOR OR LABOR: A QUEER FEMINIST EXPERIENCE

Imperialist and sexist systems of control are imprinted in the way society thinks about -and acts around- labor. Be it how we work, how we give birth, or how we…

A GAY MAN WROTE A FILM ABOUT MY WILDEST FANTASY

A gay man wrote a film about my wildest fantasy. How queer is that. The Misandrists doesn’t lack nudity and lesbian power sex. Still, this is not the fantasy I…

It’s About More Than Shoes: Confessions of a wannabe dapper straight woman OR Why we need gender neutral fashion for EVERYONE

There I sat, staring into my luggage—the fancy dress, the perfume, the strappy heels– and wondering why nothing in my relationship was adding up. I was just back from my…

TAKING FORM

UNION Decamping from the world intuition as art sacred, profane, hermetic united in one flesh + boxing gloves ready for attack / withdrawal simple flower reed of night…

ALI FITZGERALD – A VISUAL INTERVIEW

Ali Fitzgerald is an artist//writer in Berlin. She currently makes comics about a hungover bear for McSweeney’s and queer mermaids for New York Magazine. Ali gave us 9 visual answers to our…

ON TIME

Our bodies are a clock. Right here and now, always. Time is proportion, time is scale, timing is everything. Time passes. The MC is on the mic, gentlemen. And you…

QUEER TANGO IN BUENOS AIRES

Couples sway and glide over the worn wooden dance floor. Their faces are solemn and almost tragic looking, close to each other they are feeling the tango. It’s past midnight…

A HEAP OF BROKEN IMAGES

“It is only after you have come to know the surface of things that you venture to seek what is underneath. But the surface is inexhaustible.” wrote Italo Calvino in…

WORK WEEK SAMPLE #2

As part of COVEN BERLIN’s current issue LABOR OR LABOR, we asked freelancers and artists to share their weekly working routine with us following Louise Trueheart’s work week sample, a detailed description of one…