lolsnake
LOLSNAKE THE ART OF TECHNO MISCHIEF
Berlin did not give LOLSNAKE a fixed identity. If anything, it gave her permission to stop searching for one. Long before Weeeirdos became a recognizable force within the city’s nightlife ecosystem, before the international bookings and the carefully constructed emotional chaos of her sets, there was simply movement. Movement between cultures, between expectations, between versions of herself that never entirely fit together. Being Iraqi-American meant learning early how to adapt to different environments without ever fully belonging to any of them. That constant translation shaped the way she moved through the world long before it shaped the way she approached music.
When she arrived in Berlin in 2014, the city offered something different. Not cer- tainty, but space. The possibility of existing without constantly negotiating every part of herself. The clubs became less about escape and more about discovery, environments where unpredictability was not only accepted but necessary. What started as curiosity gradually evolved into authorship. The dancefloor stopped feeling like a place she visited and became something she could actively shape.
That shift eventually materialized through Weeeirdos, the platform she founded in 2017 as a reaction against rigidity within the city’s nightlife culture. Rather than define it through genre or manifesto, she deliberately left it open, allowing the project to become an extension of the community surrounding it. That refu- sal to over-define things still runs through everything she does now, from her sets to the visual worlds she builds around them. What matters is not neat categori- zation, but atmosphere, tension, contradiction, and freedom.
“Being Iraqi-American means you’re basically a professional at code-swit- ching. You spend your life in a state of hyper-translation, constantly ad- justing your frequency to fit whatever room you’re in. For a long time, I was doing that on the dancefloor too, just trying to figure out how to fit in. But when I moved to Berlin in 2014, it was the first time I felt safe enough in a room to let the freak out and get mis- chievous.
Curiosity was my main motivation. I was so hungry to experience all the different club spaces. I loved not plan- ning nights out and just letting the weekend carry me, discovering hidden locations and corners of the city I ne- ver knew existed. I spent my first three years going to all the parties, from Berghain every weekend to the bus- ted raves in Marzahn and the crunchy dives in Neukölln. I was absorbing the energy and the chaos of it all. I was ex- cited. I had ideas. Eventually, being only
a guest at these parties got boring to me. It gave me the strength to stop just participating and start building.
During those early years, I was cons- tantly surrounded by other creatives, artists, DJs, writers, and performers who were all doing amazing things but didn’t quite fit the standard mold. I rea- lized we needed a platform of our own for our specific generation of twen- ty-somethings in the city. That’s when the shift happened. I stopped acting like a guest and started doing things on my own terms. That’s when I started Weeeirdos back in 2017. I intentionally kept the platform undefined, no mani- festo, no genre, nothing. Initially, it was just my alias for curating events, a way to create a space that was unpredic- table and exciting, so the community I’m part of could finally be just as wild and mischievous as they wanted to be without feeling the need to conform.”
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AUTOR SERGIO NIÑO PHOTORAPHY DANI F
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