Tartarus Amsterdam

06/01/2020

We are finally recovered from our first edition, xmas and nye crazy marathon!

The Tartarus Amsterdam team would like to give an enormous thank you to all of you who were present at our amazing first edition. It was indeed a major success and it highly surpassed our expectations. Thank you to the crowd, the performers, the team, to Club Church and all it's workers for helping us not only to make this dark dream come true but also to create a new q***r safe space for the lovers of the darker shades of life!

See you on the next edition (to be announced soon)!...
Until then take a walk on memory lane with the closing set of our 1st edition by our resident Dj Meester:

This is my set from our new party Tartarus in Club ChUrch. Im very excited for this one, let me know what you think! Enjoy

26/12/2019

At Tartarus we have no obligatory dress code although we do very much appreciate a darker aesthetic. Anything dark, fe**sh, goth, steampunk, cyber, industrial will fit right in!
Hereby a few looks to inspire you. See you saturday! 😈

26/12/2019

Presentig our VJ for Tartarus 1st edition:

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Plazma/Reaktor9 is a polish photographer, video content creator and VJ living in Amsterdam.

In photography he focuses his lense on brutalist concrete arquitecture; his video content is captured in part through his skills as a camera drone operator while he flies over dark industrial areas, and by his own motion design in which he mixes 3D elements with the real time world.

He defines his VJ content as a rubbery fantasy, a latex plasmatic flow with brutal terror glitch noise.

He has most recently started experimenting with tattooing, producing and apllying himself his own designs which clearly reflect his dark brutal industrial aesthetics.

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Let his images be your light in the Tartarus darkness.

Check out some of his work at his Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/plazma__667/

24/12/2019

Presenting our fourth and last performer for Tartarus 1st edition:

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Belle Dommage is a q***r gender performer from Portugal living in Amsterdam and the creative mind behind Tartarus. Originally an actor, with a BA in theater and performance arts, a dancer and an aerial acrobat by passion, in drag she has found the perfect medium to combine the above plus her love for costume making and has been developing her very unique drag language for three years and a half.

She is both gorgeous and grotesque, both prosaic and poetic, and incredibly on edge in her creative beauty and artistry which she prefers to paint in shades of darkness straying from the common idea of drag.

Boundaries and taboos are for her a challenge, questioning the status quo a necessity and emotion her loudest scream.

"I like to see drag as an infinity of possibilities, and prefer to dable between genderbending, fe**sh and "beings" rather than the female impersonation "per se", but still soaked in hyper femininity."

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Hold her hand at Tartarus and let her guide you through her beautiful darkness.

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PHOTO by Remon van den Kommer Photography and POSTER for Tartarus 1st edition.

23/12/2019

Presenting our third performer for Tartarus 1st edition:

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Remon van den Kommer (Kinki Hopelezz) is a photographer, a performer, an embodiment of unapologetic s*xuality. A body that is not afraid to place and be placed and captured in context with ho******ic post religious beyond good and bad, moral and demonized interpretations. He is also the creator of the imagetic universe of Tartarus.

As a house photographer at Club Church, a safe and s*xy space for many marginalized (s*xual) groups, transcending the traditional boundaries of fe**sh subculture, Remon captures his subjects- performers, customers, staff and friends of chUrch, and also himself - unfiltered from their relation to s*xuality and ho******icism.

Have we yet captured everything that s*x can do to a camera?

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Our as****es are revolutionary! At Tartarus we start the revolution!

Check Remon's photography work here:

http://www.remonvandenkommer.nl/

16/12/2019

Presenting our second performer for Tartarus 1st edition:

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Kostas Harlamov is SletLana, an ukrainian performer based in Amsterdam who is keeping the legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini alive through her aesthetics. "Salò, or the 120 days of S***m" wasn't just a movie for her, but more of a way to relate to the world by means of a politicised grotesqueness.

Adopting the symbol of the pig, this acid post-human character is definitely not for the common taste and that's exactly what makes her so delicious.

She is going to eat your pickles rather than you eating her ni***es.

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Once in Tartarus you will be able to taste all of SletLana's filth.

07/12/2019

Presenting our first performer for Tartarus 1st edition:

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Polymorphic succubus coming from a faraway demonic realm, SasaHara (Alain Chn) is now on a journey through humans’ petty lives. They told her that if you don’t wear a wig and nails, you don’t do drag, well sorry for them because she has a bony head and sharp claws. There is no room for rules and etiquette in the darker places that she is going to anyway. Primal, Weird and Fierce that’s what SasaHara gives you. Let’s feast.

SasaHara was born in 2018 of Alain Chaney’s French mind with the help of her mother Dynno Dada and has been welcomed right away in The House of Hopelezz in Amsterdam. Her drag takes inspiration in Alain’s geek culture, flirting with demons, animals and mythological creatures of all sorts. More of a IT than a SHE, she yet mostly identifies as a HER because in her view, the ever-lasting domination of CIS-MEN is expired and has to be demolished. SasaHara is Alain’s tool of performative expression. If clubs are often where she stands, she likes to work with the theater and the in-between spaces. Developing visual narratives, SasaHara likes to work with improvisation and non-stage presence, even though the spot light also welcomes her once in a while.

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Prepare yourself to be seduced by SasaHara as she roams the darker corners of Tartarus.

03/12/2019

Presenting our third Dj for Tartarus 1st edition:

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Meester is our resident Dj and producer for Tartarus.

He has been working for Club Church for about 2 years and has started he's Dj carreer about 1 year ago.

He's one of Club Church's love child and his sound aesthetic is deeply connected with the obscure and hedonistic atmosphere of the club, being dark industrial techno his lullaby of choice.

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Meester is our third and last Dj (02h-05h), closing the night in the deepest depths of Tartarus in full dark bliss.

Listen to some of his sets on previous Club Church's parties right here:

https://soundcloud.com/dj-meester?fbclid=IwAR3OmBq_YauArMhWw-iZMDHCHqg3rdqgR5InW_gAX-ikDm2UlBR7M0_Std8

21/11/2019

Presenting our second Dj for Tartarus 1st edition:

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Darcvalac is a young q***r performance artist, host and dj; one of the pioneers of the dutch ClubKid scene and winner of Superball Amsterdam 2018 in the category of best new talent; or as he likes to describe himself, " the great president of 38 demonic legions".

His aesthetic is highly experimental and forever changing, combining themes such as nature, mythology, demonology and the underwater world, using unconventional and unexpected materials to create his unearthly looks.

His dj sets dwell in between techno, rave and hardcore.

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Darvalac is our second dj of the night (00h-02h), taking us deeper into Tartarus and dimming all the remaining light.

Listen to his obscure sounds right here:

https://soundcloud.com/darcvalac/d-1?fbclid=IwAR32hSyDr_5h_3XKuGT7NlZuoFShHaw0Cfgh1wlC6RXjc0L1DoF3fw5Sg_U

07/11/2019

Presenting our first Dj for Tartarus 1st edition:

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Phaedra Phantom (Phaedra's Freak Show) is a ghostly, demonic and futuristic goth. She is a witch returned from the dead, a femme-fatale with a taste for the macabre.

Techno producer and a vocalist above all, she is in love with the q***r party scene and dark experimental drag. Both as a musician, with very eclectic interests, and as a drag artist, she loves exploring new ways of artistic expression. As Merlijn Terpstra, the person behind Phaedra, he is also a language philosopher and ethicist which writes about q***r - and other emancipatory - issues.

Phaedra's dj sets are an effort to embrace and celebrate the symbol of the witch, which historically has been used to demonise women and all that is q***r. On the other hand, this symbol ackowledges the enormous power that these oppressed groups hold in their "being different", and thus, is regarded as dangerous to the ruling oppressors.

"We should revel in what makes us unique and powerful, and celebrate all that is perceived as 'strange' by those in power."

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Phaedra Phantom will be opening the night (22h-00h), iniciating our descend into Tartarus.

Listen to her ghostly sounds on this mixtape prepared especially for us:

https://soundcloud.com/phaedraphantom/mixtape-improv-phaedras-freak-show-2nd-editionwav