Gudrun Gut currently runs the Berlin-based Monika Enterprise Label, was an early member of Einstürzende Neubauten and most famously founded the 1980s band Malaria. Gut became practically a thread unto herself in Berlin’s underground art and music scenes – she explored cross-sections of new wave, techno, spoken word, multimedia art, and experimental rock in bands like Mania D, Matador, and Project Miasma. There have been film scores, radio plays, videos projects, gallery exhibitions, remixes, a record label, DJ gigs, and the eclectic, collective radio show “The Ocean Club”.

“This is a story about a’ geniale dilettante’; a punk and a No Waver and an early adopter of computer pop; a girl from German heatherlands who moved to Berlin to become one of the city’s central figures – feminist agitator, festival organizer, entrepreneur. Plus of course musician, performance artist, DJ, radio presenter, club organizer, cultural ambassador and label owner. She has done all of this largely by maintaining her independence. Not in the rejectionist strain that characterizes knee-jerk American individualism, but rather by creating and attending to niches and spaces of possibility in the interstices and the margins.” – The Wire magazine.

Presented in association with the Goethe-Institut.

25 February 2009 – Christchurch – Marsupial 150 Lichfield St
with: Saya and Taskashi Ueno [JPN], Occasionals .

START: WED 25 FEBRUARY 2009, 12:00 PM
VENUE/CITY: MARSUPIAL 150 LICHFIELD ST, CHRISTCHURCH.

27 February 2009 – Wellington – Mighty Mighty
with: Stef Animal, Public Toilet Ltd .

START: FRI 27 FEBRUARY 2009, 12:00 PM
VENUE/CITY: MIGHTY MIGHTY, WELLINGTON.

4 March 2009 – Auckland – Cassette Number Nine
with: Mr Hayday, Disasteradio.

START: WED 4 MARCH 2009, 12:00 PM
VENUE/CITY: CASSETTE NUMBER NINE, AUCKLAND.