Centering Eastern Peripheries

Oramics Mala Herba and dogheadsurigeri from the Oramics collective meet with Adriana Raczykowski to talk about the politics of the dance floor and sonic spaces curation. Guided by the motto “Your periphery is our center”, they address Western hegemony in contemporary electronic subcultures. In conversation with Paulina Trzeciak (dogheadsurigeri) Paulina Trzeciak (she/her) is a Polish DJ based in London. Under her stage name dogheadsurigeri, she has performed in different clubs all over Poland and at venues including Colour Factory (London), Fuga (Bratislava), and Garage Noord (Amsterdam), as well as festivals like Tauron Nowa Muzyka Katowice, Open Source Art Festival, and Upper Festival. Her sets include rhythmic switch-ups blending cut-up deconstructed club-music with energetic and fast techno, trance and gabber. Her mixes have been showcased at HÖR Berlin, Red Light Radio, or NTS Radio. As part of Oramics, dogheadsurigeri is outspoken about the lack of visibility of Eastern European artists in the Western art industry. The collective strives to create spaces for the visibility and empowerment of Non-binary, female, and LGBTQIA+ artists, and for solidarities in the music scene. dogheadsurigeri was a speaker at the Unsound Festival in Kraków and the CTM Festival in Berlin. Website (Oramics) Instagram Soundcloud RA Zosia Hołubowska (Mala Herba) Zosia Hołubowska (they/them) is a sound artist, queer music activist, researcher and producer, also known under their stage name Mala Herba. They have composed sound designs and installations for a variety of institutions, such as the Mumok in Vienna, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, and La Gaite Lyrique in Paris. As Mala Herba, they performed at festivals such as Tauron Nowa Muzyka in Poland, the Popfest in Austria, or the Fekete Zaj in Hungary. Their music draws from darkwave and industrial techno and aims to create experimental polyrhythmic soundscapes. In 2023, they released the Album “Singing Warmia” centering on questions of family archives and places of birth. Instagram Soundcloud Bandcamp Credits Sounds Oscillator Composition – composed and performed by Mala Herba Pulsating and for later – composed and performed by Mala Herba Visuals Episode Cover: Oramics profile VA by Oramics dogheadsurigeri Portrait Mala Herba Portrait by Filip Preis Podcast Info Curation and host for this episode Adriana Raczykowski, Student Assistant, Leuphana University Lüneburg Podcast Founder Dr. Layla Zami, Postdoctoral Researcher in Performance Studies, FU Berlin Producer Freie Universität Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Intervening Arts (SFB 1512 Intervenierende Künste, TP B05) Funded by German Research Society (DFG) In Cooperation with FU Berlin, Institut für Theaterwissenschaft Eufoniker Audioproduktion