EX AEQUA

This month, Ex Aequa is in residence at 90mil, exploring the community hub's femme-lead, DIY approach to experimental arts. The showcase opens Wednesday, October 21, featuring performances and works from residents, mentors, and members of the 90mil community contributing to the initiative, including: Ziúr (Live) Yede Zweifel + abstraqt (Live) Eva van Dijk (DJ) Miri Malek (DJ) Aleksandra Mitrović (Installation) Returning to Berlin for the second edition of a free training and professional development initiative aimed at artists under 35, focused on women, FLINTA and underrepresented gender minorities in the music industry, Ex Aequa aims to foster gender equality and diversity within electronic music.

Produced in collaboration between Arty Farty, Spring Attitude Festival, 90mil and Institut Français. This event is taking place at 90mil, a non-profit, DIY space near Jannowitzbrücke, Berlin. Entrance is via suggested donation at the door only. You must be a member to enter. You can become a guest member at the door for a fee of €5. Your membership is valid for a year.

20:00 - 02:00 -- Ziúr Driven by a relentless appetite for boundless experimentation, Ziúr has been subverting expectations since she was a teenager, corkscrewing through hardcore, metal and punk before veering towards electronic music's turbulent fringes.

She produces just like she DJs, gathering a wide variety of ingredients and figuring out the most intriguing, unexpected ways to simmer them into a coherent narrative that helps listeners synchronize the conflicting messages that surround them. Genre isn't a fixed point for Ziúr, but a color in a vast palette that stretches across history and borders, helping illustrate music that's powerfully subversive - a vivid crack of light in a dim, lifeless cultural landscape.

It's easy to see why Pitchfork labelled her "a master storyteller" in 2019. Ziúr's musical epiphany came in 2015 when she was teaching at a girls rock camp and crossed paths with Peaches…