STUN presents ‘Back2Rave’ ’90s party

Born in the Soviet Union (Ukraine), Sydney-based DJ/producer Sveta is a true pioneer of the dance music genre.

In 1990, her Friday Morning Breakfast Show on 2SER-FM was the first-ever radio program in Australia to take dance music out of a specialist night-time programming slot and into the highly-listened to morning breakfast slot, a show she continued to host for 12 years. She also hosted shows on FBI, Triple J and 2DAY-FM.

Sveta is a multi-disciplinary artist with a background in television and film production

and journalism. In 1994, her short film Genderfuck, which she conceived, directed

and edited, explored topical gender politics that have since moved to the forefront of the dialogue in the LGBTIQ community. After seeing Genderfuck, Australian director Broinowski asked Sveta to assist her to create a full-length documentary based on the themes in the film. Sexing the Label – Love and Gender in a Queer World debuted in 1996. Sveta served as researcher, director’s assistant, additional camera operator and with all casting.

As a DJ, Sveta has played alongside the likes of Carl Cox, Derrick Carter, Frankie Knuckles, Honey Dijon, Green Velvet, Seth Troxler, Riton, Miss Kittin, Sneaky Sound System, K-Hand , David Morales, The Presets, Andy Butler, Kim Ann Foxman, Kylie Minogue, Scissor Sisters, Boy George, Deep Dish, John Digweed and Victor Calderone. On tour, she has supported artists including Peaches, Amanda Palmer, LCD Soundsystem, The Julie Ruin, Tommy Lee (Motley Crue), collaborated on the beats for Shunda K (Yo Majesty!) and with Emmy Award winning pianist and composer, Lance Horne on a live piano/house set at the Sydney Opera House and BAM Brooklyn. She’s also regularly curated as a DJ/ collaborator at arts events for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Carriageworks, Vivid Live, Opera Australia, Sydney Theatre Company and the Sydney Opera House.

Sveta has also made her mark abroad in cities including London, Paris, Verona,

Singapore, Japan, Barcelona, Toronto Copenhagen, Toronto, Berlin, New Zealand,

with her biggest audience outside of Australia being in NYC, where she toured

extensively for a 10-year run, playing for the most underground and celebrated

promoters, ‘Club Kids’ & at POC Vogue Balls.

Sveta is 1/2 of LAPLUSTRE – a performance & production collaboration with

rock/electronic musician & DJ Estée Louder. Together they have remixed music for

Qantas Airways, Betty Who & Indigenous superstar Jessica Mauboy & composed

musical scores for RUSSH online, Oroton, Alex Perry, Indigenous Dance show

NGOENAKAP by NAISDA (Carriageworks, Nov 2019) and trailer music for Queer Screen. Laplustre produces original music primarily in the technosphere.

Sveta’s extensive work with marginalised communities has spanned 30 years and has included hands-on volunteering, fundraising events and composition of music for

community development projects in the health sector (ACON).

As a queer identified woman with a refugee migrant background arriving in Australia during the ‘Cold War’, this work has always been the most important to Sveta.

Sveta was the founder/ booker and resident DJ of legendary Kingki Kingdom / Queer Central weekly event that spanned a decade (2002 – 2012), ignited the world-wide Drag King movement and created a stage where a generation of queer performers cut their teeth (see Intimate Investments in Drag King Culture by Dr Kerryn Drysdale).

In 2018, Sveta received the Gay & Lesbian Rights Lobby’s Supporter of the Year Award and was the 2019 winner of the prestigious Sydney Mardi Gras Lifetime Achievement Award.

Sveta holds the record for DJ appearances at the world-famous Sydney Mardi Gras and Sleaze Ball parties at 32 appearances! She was also the main curator of 2018’s 40th Anniversary Sydney Mardi Gras party.

We are beyond thrilled to have this incredible DJ/artist joining us again for another Back2Rave and playing a super rare ’90s set! Don’t miss this chance to have DJ Sveta revisit the tracks that mattered to them from in the decade that changed everything!