Irish immersive festival pioneers Spacecraft, board the legendary Kultur Raumschiff MS Stubnitz in Hamburg for a week, bringing music, art and interactive performance* plus a talk series and film screenings that explore the legacy of independent spaces.
Take a ride in the DIY Fairground, join TRADIATOR training camp, pen a ballad for the Reeperbahn Hit-Parade and place your bets on the end of the world. With space-themed bands, gamified DJ sets and genre-bending comedy storytelling, make sure to catch Friday’s Trad Wives, Techno & Banjos in Space, and the Trad-Porn thrills, musical variety, and raucous Trad Rave finale of Saturday’s Jinxing the Rave, TRAD is invoked throughout the programme with skill and absurdist humour, but with irreverence at the heart of this enterprise, the spectre of tradition is raised, to be claimed, owned and subverted, not merely humbly revered.
“The holy grail of hidden spots… notorious for riotous nights” Huffington Post (review of the Spacecraft project ‘Underground Piano Bar’ at Glastonbury Festival)
Tuilleadh eolaisSpacecraft formed in Dublin in the 90s as an art-for-activism practice, making interactive performance using gameplay
and satire, In 1998, with friends doing spoof ‘Irish-earth-dwelling’ construction, we created our first venue at Glastonbury.
A pioneering immersive project, the (literally)‘Underground Pianoba r’ turned 25 last year.
MS Stubnitz is an 80m cold-war-era vessel. Converted to a touring arts ship in 1992 it offers up to 900 audience capacity, across 3 converted cargo holds, and a world-famous acoustic. A working historic ship and award-winning artist-run venue, it has hosted a wealth of talent over 30 years, from big names to cult heroes With parallel histories in ‘independent space’ MS Stubnitz and Spacecraft are kindred ventures. Both are collective creative projects with origins in rave, free-party, and festival cultures.
Operating by a logic subtly removed from mainstream culture production, both are enduring enclaves of imaginary possibility where something very other may still happen.