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Book Event—Sex, Clubs, Dissent: Visualising Queer Nightlife with Amelia Abraham and Linda Simpson
Journalist and editor Amelia Abraham is joined in conversation with artist Linda Simpson to celebrate the release of Sex, Clubs, Dissent: Visualising Queer Nightlife, Abraham’s latest editorial project during a special late night at ICP. Abraham and Simpson will be signing select titles following the conversation,
This program is being offered both in person at ICP, located on NYC's Lower East Side, and online. Tickets to attend the conversation in person are $5 and include access to ICP’s galleries.
About the Book This vivid history of queer nightlife unfolds through photographic works and essays exploring how image-making has both fostered and jeopardized the formation of queer practices and subcultures.
Sex, Clubs, Dissent charts an expansive visual history of queer nightlife through the lens of photographers, filmmakers, and artists. Edited by author Amelia Abraham, the book explores how image-making has fostered, and at times jeopardized, the formation of queer practices, subcultures, and forms of resistance. It asks what our decades-long quest to catalogue and understand nightlife spaces through photography and film can tell us about our various relationships with them, and how photography intersects with pleasure, politics, and protest.
As much as an assertion that ‘we were here’, images of queer nightlife – real or otherwise – can be erotic, amusing, alienating, violent, or exuberantly joyful, moving us to seek out our own dancefloor, strip club, or sauna. Rather than a comprehensive catalogue or chronology of queer nightlife, Sex, Clubs, Dissent is a love letter to those who went out and stayed out, felt the urge to document or reflect what was happening, or who have used their artmaking to dream new modes of being into existence.
With essays and conversations by Amelia Abraham, Brontez Purnell, McKenzie Wark, Rene Matić and Ajamu X, Jack Parlett, Tavia Nyong’o, Adam Zmith, Sita Balani and Sunil Gupta, Ariel Goldberg, Sweatmother, Asa Seresin, and Legacy Russell and Tourmaline
Venue: International Center of Photography
84 Ludlow
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212-857-0000
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