ART & MULTIMEDIA

VAGINA TREE

VAGINA TREE “Witches!”, they called us. We were brave, we were free. “Witches!”, they stalked us. “Burn in flames! Never flee!” From the embers that remained, From the splinters,…

WHITE SUGAR

White Sugar is a surreal film that narratively and graphically elaborates archival material in the public domain. The artist Francesca Fini selected this material in the course of careful research….

SHELLZ SPELLZ

Photography by Shelley Etkin & Sara Anjo

A close up low-lit image of a person taken from below. The lighting highlights their chin, lips, and nose, and their arms and long armpit hair. Their arms are raised over their head, with one arm holding the other. Their eyes are closed and their eyes are in shadow. They are wearing bright red lipstick, and they have light skin and short brown hair.

SAFE SPACES FOR QUEER FEMME PHOTOGRAPHERS

Photography has often been said to carry with it a unique sense of democracy as an artistic medium, giving access to expression based on basic visual ability and tools rather…

RECHTSRADIKAL: A BRIGADE OF FEMALE AUTOMATONS

The contemporary dance world takes great pains to disembowel the stereotype of the mindless dancer—an automaton whose mind is erased by a life of training. One way to accomplish this…

FEMME TENTA MANIFESTO

COVEN BERLIN is happy to feature Lo-Fi Cherry‘s FEMME TENTA MANIFESTO If I would in some way try to describe the basic idea of tentacle porn, I would say that…

FLOWERY MEN

An artist statement or an open letter to the Flowery Men [In the struggle for equality, we stand against economic, social, political and cultural discrimination that restricts and…

CONCHA

CONCHA f (plural conchas) 1. seashell 2. Popular Spanish female name meaning “conception” 3. (vulgar, Latin America) cunt CONCHA is the Spanish word for seashell and also a…

1st QUEER HAIKU CONTEST: The winners

After weeks of waiting COVEN BERLIN finally announces their favorite three submissions of their very first QUEER HAIKU CONTEST, which took place from July 22nd to August 22nd: JOHN WAIBLINGER, ESTHER…

1st QUEER HAIKU CONTEST

Join us in the first QUEER HAIKU CONTEST by COVEN BERLIN! Haikus are the minimal expression of poetry: they rely in the juxtaposition of two poetic images or…