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Amsterdam · in English
Eddy de Clercq at the Narcotic City Archive Opening Amsterdam 2021-- »Eddy de Clercq at the Narcotic City Archive Opening Amsterdam 2021«
In this video, De Clercq talks about his first Amsterdam Club De Koer (1980), that offered a mix of New Wave, disco, live music and performances. One of the guests was the Dutch cartoonist Peter Pontiac, who donated a unique series of painted T-shirts to De Clercqs club. Watch the video to find out how this donation came about!
(Type: video)
(Format: 22:27)
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Poster - Public hearing on cannabis, hemp and culture-- »Poster - Public hearing on cannabis, hemp and culture«
Poster - Public hearing on cannabis, hemp and culture
- Critical archiving, tacit narratives, and participatory knowledge production - The social and political history of archiving
The archive is more than a container for documents, and has been used to both witness, provide evidence, justify, explain, educate, entertain, support research, help protect human rights, confirm identity, invoke imagination, manipulate, seduce, and lie.
Temporal Coverage: () Read Story - Public Undergrounds: The rise of alternative drug cultures and the invention of the “Scene”
In the early 1970s, the emerging narcotic cultures of West-Berlin not only drew the attention of the public and the media, but came into the focus of academics and public health institutions, First studies and surveys were conducted with one paper standing out in particular. It was entitled “Drug Consumers Underground” [Drogenkonsumenten im Underground] and authored by a collective of young social workers, drug users and educators, some of them with aliases.
1970 – 1975West-BerlinTemporal Coverage: 1970/1975 (1970,1970s,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1970s,1970s,) Read Story - Christiania’s 50th birthday parade
Insights into the governing of the narcotic city of Copenhagen
2021Temporal Coverage: 2021-09/2021-09 (2020s,2021,2020s,2020s,) Read Story - Early drug scenes in Switzerland: places and practices
Not only for the Swiss counterculture were certain places in the cities of central importance. Here one could buy drugs and consume and philosophize together. In Basel, people sat on the wall at Barfüsserplatz.
1965 – 1975SwitzerlandTemporal Coverage: 1965/1975 (2020s,1965,1966,1967,1968,1969,1970,1970s,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1960s,1970s,) Read Story - Amsterdam —
»magic center of the world«
The Dutch capital has been a magnet for drug tourists for more half a century now. The iconic image of Amsterdam as a tolerant, friendly place filled with people who are 'high' all day, has its roots in the 1960s. In 1962, Robert Jasper Grootveld (1937-2009), the playful leader of the Provo social movement who organized famous "happenings" at the Spui-square. He dubbed Amsterdam the "magies centrum van de wereld", the magical center of the world. In the video below from 1966, you see him talking about addiction and consumerism.
1950 – 1970AmsterdamTemporal Coverage: 1950/1970 (1950,1950s,1951,1952,1953,1954,1955,1956,1957,1958,1959,1960,1960s,1961,1962,1963,1964,1965,1966,1967,1968,1969,1970,1970s,1950s,1970s,) Read Story - The politics of pink spray on a pathway
In 2019 a number unremarkable pink lines sprayed on the asphalt of Berlin’s Görlitzer Park caused some trouble in Berlin and a remarkable global media coverage. Somewhat sloppy drawn, these open boxes appeared alongside some of the park’s throughways, especially around some of it’s entrances.
2019BerlinTemporal Coverage: 2019/2019 (2019,2010s,2010s,) Read Story - Narcotic Struggles: Hash Rebels and the Fight for Alternative Spaces in West Berlin
In the mid-1960s, West Berlin saw the first glimpses of an emerging public drug scene, which would become a widespread phenomenon in the decades to come.
1964 – 1969West-BerlinTemporal Coverage: 1964/1969 (2020s,1964,1965,1966,1967,1968,1969,1960s,1960s,) Read Story -
2 Files Zurich · in German
AUTONOMOUS CULTURE WORKSHOP/WORKCITY, TOORICHde »AUTONOME KULTURWERKSTADT WOHLGROTH, ZUREICH«
In this leaflet, the squatters of the Autonome Kulturwerkstad(t)t Wohlgroth look back on the two and a half years since the occupation. Among other things, they discuss the closure of the consumption room, the sleep-in for drug consumers, and the women's emergency shelter. It is not their job, they say, "to solve the social problems of the city." Since the closure, "dealing and consumption of hard drugs are no longer tolerated. But that doesn't mean, of course, that we exclude junkies on principle."
(Type: leaflet)
(Format: A4)
Subjects: squats, drugs policy, drug consumption, drug trafficking, solidarity, activism,
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Zurich · in German
Weihnachten 88 am Platzspitzde »Weihnachten 88 am Platzspitz«-- »Christmas 88 at Platzspitz«
Leaflet on the solidarity action in the "open drug scene" in Zurich's Platzspitz Park at Christmas 1988.
(Type: leaflet)
(Format: A4)
Subjects: open drug scenes, solidarity, culture, self help, street work,
- From Queer Ecstasy to Queer Sobriety
Queer cultures are more than often associated with partying practices and also with drug consumption.
2011 – 2021Temporal Coverage: 2011/2021 (2020s,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2020s,2021,2010s,2020s,) Read Story -
Berlin · in English
Queer Edge Against the Cis*Tem
#1455
Format: ca. 10x10 cm
; Subject: sobriety, queer, trans* ·
Cloth patch representing a queer critique of mainstream intoxication culture.
(Type: Serigraphy on cloth)
(Format: ca. 10x10 cm)
Subjects: sobriety, queer, trans*,
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in English
How to Do Archival Research? -- »How to Do Archival Research? «
The aim of archival research is to identify, find, and extract relevant information and materials from collections. Using archival research to contribute to the Narcotic City archive can inform new histories of narcotic cultures.
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West Berlin · in German
Drug Users in the Underground-- »Drogenkonsumenten im Untergrund Berlin«
In the early 1970s, the emerging narcotic cultures of West-Berlin not only drew the attention of the public and the media, but came into the focus of academics and public health institutions, First studies and surveys were conducted with one paper standing out in particular. It was entitled “Drug Consumers Underground” [Drogenkonsumenten im Underground] and authored by a collective of young social workers, drug users and educators, some of them with aliases. While remaining unpublished for quite a while, it eventually found its way into the archive of the Federal Centre for Health Education (Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung). Consisting of more the 160 pages, and including drawings, cartoons, and press clippings, it marks the first ever in-depth description of these new public drug scenes of West-Berlin.
(Type: Report)
(Format: A4, 168 pages)
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West Berlin · in German
Leaflet of the West Berlin Hash Rebels 1969-- »Leaflet of the West Berlin Hash Rebels 1969«
Leaflet of the the “Zentralrat der umherschweifenden Haschrebellen" (Central Council of Roaming Hash Rebels) protesting the Berlin premiere of the Musical Hair in late 1969.
(Type: Flyer)
(Format: A4, pink)
Subjects: hash, shelter, subculture, activism,
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4 Files Bulgaria · in French
Alcohol and rape culturede »Hemmungslos feiern wir unsere Hemmungslosigkeit. Von Trinkkultur und rape culture«fr »Sans retenue nous fêtons notre absence de retenue. Alcool et culture du viol. «it »Senza restrizioni, festeggiamo la nostra mancaza di ritegno. Alcool e cultura dello stupro. «
Témoignage paru en 2012 d'une militante féministe et antifasciste bulgare. Edition et mise en page: un infokiosque parmi d'autres. Suisse.
(Type: Booklet, self-edited)
(Format: 15 x 10 cm, 12 pages)
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North America · in English
Sober Queers do exist
This zine is a collection of writings by queer and trans people on the topic of sobriety
(Type: Booklet, self-edited )
(Format: 15 x 21 cm, 54 pages )
Subjects: alcohol, drug, gender, queer, trans, sobriety, community, addiction, trauma,
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United States · in French
Sevrage. Ecrits sur la dépendance, la sobriété, la réhabilitation et la culture de l'intoxicationfr »Sevrage. Ecrits sur la dépendance, la sobriété, la réhabilitation et la culture de l'intoxication«
Ce zine est un recueil d'articles écrits entre 2014 et 2016 sur les thèmes de la dépendance, de la sobriété, de la réhabilitation et de la culture de l'intoxication. Ces articles par Clementine Morrigan ont été traduits de l'anglais par le collectif Câlins, Pavés, Paillettes.
(Type: booklet, self-edited)
(Format: 15 x 21 cm, 16 p.)
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2 Files Berlin · in German
Queer and Sober. Queer and Trans people's experiences of sobriety and intoxication culture de »Queer und Nüchtern. Erfahrung von Queeren und Trans Menschen zu Nüchternheit und Rauschkultur«
(Type: Booklet, self-edited)
(Format: 15 x 21 cm, 54 pages)
Subjects: Queer, Sobriety, Trans, Gender, Alcohol, Addiction, Community, Trauma,
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in Danish
Colouring book, legalise Cannabis-- »Colouring book, legalise Cannabis«
#547
Format: 21 cm x 30 cm, paper
; Subject: Christiania, Free Cannabis Campaign, Cannabis, counterculture ·
(Type: colouring book)
(Format: 21 cm x 30 cm, paper)
Subjects: Christiania, Free Cannabis Campaign, Cannabis, counterculture,
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3 Files United States · in English
My Edge is everything but Straight: Towards a radical queer critic of intoxication culturefr »Mon Edge est tout sauf Straight: Vers une critique queer radicale de la culture de l'intoxication«
Zine qui parle de la masculinité hétérosexuelle dominante dans le mouvement Straight Edge et appelle à une libération queer par la sobriété
(Type: Booklet, Self-edited)
(Format: 21 x 15 cm, 16 pages)
- Sigma center Amsterdam-- »Sigma center Amsterdam« #231 Format: not specified
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