Located in the courtyard of the Schlüterhof, Sauer Power Klub, by Slavs and Tatars, will act as a venue for programming throughout the opening festivities of the East Wing of the Humboldt Forum. Performances, cabaret, concerts and the like will take center stage for the public starting Saturday 17th of September and progressively building steam with a crescendo peaking late Saturday night during the 24hrs opening of the Schlüterhof until Sunday noon 18th September.
The leitmotif running through the very diverse contributions by artists, poets, musicians et al will be the notion of inebriation and intoxication. In a very atavistic and ritualist sense, nightlife often serves as the release of a pressure valve, to undo, or destroy (both in a physical but also in a metaphysical sense) the very things – energy, capital, labor – we produce and create during the day. The notion of intoxication helps achieve this ecstatic release: literally and metaphorically. Intoxication implies a release from the strict customs of our daily rituals, an excess of stimulation, an increase in sensitivity, a loosening of tongues.