Kem supports new phenomena in sound-based art and club music and is a platform for experimentation for DJs and sound artists. Kem revels in giving space to and supporting emerging talents, creating experimental formats and new expressions of queer and female sound and sensation.
Kem’s sound is created by a group of artists and DJs in residence.
Mixes
KEM FOR JESSICA - FACHEROIA
Kem finest // mix by our all time favourite collaborator and resident @facheroia
KEM FOR JESSICA - SUHLISIA
Dj set by @suhlisia recorded for us as part of the #KemSchool public program. Artwork by @grrracjaaan
Project is financed by the Capital City of Warsaw as part of the 'Centrum Jasna' program.
KEM FOR JESSICA - JSA
New lush mix from our multitalented resident dj @jsajsajsa
Podcasts
𝗨𝗡𝗕𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗚 = 𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗬𝗜𝗡𝗚 (PART 1)
UNBECOMING = UNDYING (PART 2)
A reading encounter for six voices about living and dying in a pandemic.
Kem presents Szymon Adamczak’s and Richard John Jones’ new project, a two-part audio journey of a number of key texts and statements bearing witness to the personal and collective experiences relating to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Moving between the forms of podcast, rehearsal, and discussion, Unbecoming = Undying follows a live gathering of friends and peers re-voicing source texts and reflecting on their affective, personal and political resonance today. The selection of texts is born out of research into the AIDS journal genre and is accompanied by excerpts from zines, artists’ books and catalogues. The editorial work began remotely whilst in quarantine and these conditions are echoed both practically and theoretically throughout the production process.
Through the act of reading together, Unbecoming = Undying touches on themes of LGBTQ militancy, mobilisation, kinship, the intimate experience of illness, systemic exclusion, and how movement, migration, and the passing of time shape our understanding of these. A virus has been transmitted, not HIV but the virus of writing and reading aloud.