TAMTAMTAM was a performance event organized by our platform, PLAYBerlin, inspired by Epic Performance parties started by Eric Green, Brandon Johnson, Sarah Lewis, and Mollie Hosmer-Dillard in Berlin in 2007.
Together with the Epic Performance team and PLAYBerlin co-founders Johannes Wengel and Stefan Faerber, we set up an open event that would combine live performance and celebration, in order to bring together practitioners from across the different fields and have a safe space to share energies in whatever shape (finished or unfinished), form, or medium they might appear.
TAMTAMTAM lasted from 2009 through 2012, during this time we organized multiple events in bars, clubs, and contemporary dance venues.
However, our favorite happening was at the old Kindl Braurei in Berlin where we organized Halloween in 2009 (which was the 6th edition of TAMTAMTAM, under the theme of “Time Travel Went Wrong ••• Large Hadron Collider (Mis)Launch”). It was raw, wild, and honest, full of people from different walks of life, great live music acts, performances, DJs. The dancefloor was exploding, crazy things were happening all over the place. It really felt like a few hundred people who came were one tribe, at least for a moment. Together with our wonderful audience, we mixed everything possible in one space and moment, but somehow it all came out very organically. One can say that there was that true Berlin spirit inside: experimental, direct, playful, queer, and fun.
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Space design and performances by: John-Erik Jordan, Brandon Johnson, Eric Green, Kirsty Kross and the rest of TAMTAMTAM crew
Music: O Tannenbaum DJs, Ben Butler & Mousepad (live), Isabel Lewis + Josep Mainu (DJs), Johannes Wengel + Dmitry Paranyushkin (music+performance)
