SpaceKraft|Raumschiff

::: The Hiberno-Futurist Independent-Space Programme

17th-21st Sept 2024 Onboard MS STUBNITZ, Hamburg, Germany

Produced and curated by Spacecraft co-founder Aste Amundsen 

Irish immersive festival pioneers Spacecraft, makers of Glastonbury’s Underground Piano Bar, board legendary art ship MS Stubnitz for a week, bringing an eclectic programme of music, art and interactive performance* plus a talk series with film screenings exploring the history and legacy of independent space. Programme highlights include DIY fairground rides, a Trad-Porn Musical, a TRADIATOR Tournament (with audience Try-Outs and Training Camp!) a Four-Horsemen-of-the-Apocalypse Derby (place your bets!), Trad-Rave DJs and Céilí dance.

“The holy grail of hidden spots […] notorious for riotous nights”

Huffington Post

TRAD is invoked throughout the line-up with skill, heart and absurdist humour, but with irreverence at the core of this enterprise, the spectre of (Irish) tradition will be raised, to be claimed, owned and subverted, not humbly revered. 

With parallel histories of independent space provision and DIY production, MS Stubnitz is a kindred maritime venture to Spacecraft’s subterranean one. Both are collective creative projects with origins in cultures spawned at illegal raves, squats, and festivals. Operating by a different logic subtly removed from the realities of mainstream culture production, both The Stubnitz and Spacecraft constitute enduring if encircled, enclaves of relatively greater imaginary possibility where something wholly other may yet take place…

SpaceKraft|Raumschiff brings together a crew of our favourite artists notable for their prolific collaboration, full-frontal audience engagement, and capacity to reliably surprise…

With Hugh Cooney: Folklord, Trad Rave, Jinx Lennon, Paddy Bloomer [Texas Chainsaw Massager and Fairground rides] Branwen Kavanagh, Acid Granny, Trad Porn Cowboys and Hoors [The Musical!], Rare Witch, Ruskavellas, TRADIATOR: The Tournament, The Fist, Cal Folger-Day, Stoopid Request Line, Spudgun, Spacers, The Goblinz, Aoibhinn O'Dea, The Ultimate Trad Wife Competition and Céilí, Eamon Crudden [KINO: Berlusconi’s Mousetrap], Sean Fitzgerald [Dublin-Reeperbahn DIY Ballad workshop & Hitparade], Naomi Smyth [KINO: No Dress Rehearsal], Aste Amundsen [Apocalypse Derby, and craic’psychometrics], Jack O'Donnell [TPM] as SpaceKraft Quizmaster, and The Cuntess Markabitch.

17th-21st Sept 2024

*DISCLAIMER:

While Interactive performance thrives on audience engagement, and keen extroverts may find themselves on stage, interactive does NOT mean press-ganging an unwilling public into ‘audience participation’ comedy at their own expense!