Dunst is a queer network which since 2001 has contributed to gay life in Copenhagen, Denmark. Known for its bizarre and tongue-in-cheek drag personalities (including such names as Ramona Macho, Miss Fish, Puta and Tove Hansen), the group has, among other things, arranged art shows, dinner nights, performances, film nights and parties. Dunst began as a completely informal network but now formally works as an association. The name means odour or reek in Danish.
Activities
During some months in 2002, Dunst handled the Gay House at
During 2003 Dunst broadcast some episodes of its own TV show on a local Copenhagen television network. The network, however, declined to air an episode showing one artist eating excrement and subsequently banned Dunst from its facilities. Dunst currently broadcasts a weekly radio show on the local cable network.
Dunst has made events in neighbouring countries and has gained some international attention, notably in Berlin.[citation needed]
Overview
Having decidedly anti-establishment aims, the group has a very humorous and creative way with its own uniquely twisted drag-punk flavour.[citation needed] Public appearances have been positively referred in mainstream media which would otherwise ignore gay events.[citation needed]
The attitude of Dunst is arguably more fun and less militant than most radical queer punk formations abroad.[citation needed] It could be claimed that Dunst combines a postmodern appearance with a Danish tradition of humorous political activism.[citation needed] During the 1970's and 1980's, the theatre group Solvognen (Sun Chariot, linked with Christiania), singers Troels Trier and Rebecca Brüel, and the squatter performance network Kulørte Klat ("Coloured Blob") made imaginative and ironic performances, as well as feminist groups of rødstrømper (literally "red stockings").[citation needed]
Manifesto
The Dunst website proclaims its "Manifesto" as follows:[1]
1. dunst is for all the cute ones.
2. dunst is the culture bearing layer of our gender political confusement.
3. dunst has provocation as a work tool and not as a goal in itself.
4. dunst makes contrasts strong.
5. dunst is for all who in a self performance will go beyond their own modesty.
6. dunst is the low life that others won't have an opinion about.
7. dunst is the sanctuary for those who come from a male or female chauvinist upbringing.
8. dunst crosses the gender specific habits and limits you keep in your everyday life.
9. dunst is for those who think they and others should be culturally carpet bombed.
10. dunst is always in change.
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