The Club Scene
dal 19/10/2012 al 19/10/2012
Segnalato da
19/10/2012
The Club Scene
Index - the Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm
Culture Club, 2nd act
The second act of a series of re-enactments conceived by MYCKET in collaboration with the artist collective The New Beauty Council and the organisation W.I.S.P. (Women in Swedish Performing Arts). The event involves the restaging of historical clubs of great importance for queer and feminist activist work internationally. It takes inspiration from the struggles throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s around gender identities and construction, marked by the births in 1975 of Lesbisk Front, in 1989 of the campaigning group Stonewall or in 1990 of the qay rights organisation Queer Nation. Organised as a night club, Culture Club, 2nd act celebrates important cultural figures and phenomena from those decades, from Ziggy Stardust to Carmelita Tropicana at the woman's theatre collective WOW Cafe' Theater, via the right to free love and Queer Nights Out: "Closets are for clothes!" The publics are invited to let themselves be temporarily transformed, and play within these revolutionary pockets of resistance. Culture Club, 2nd act is developed as part of a long-term project initiated in September 2012 by MYCKET, a collaborative project by Mariana Alves (designer), Katharina Bonnevier and Therese Kristiansson (artists and architects). The event is realised in the framework of the project NormCreativeSettings set up by Rebecca Vinthagen and Lina Zavalia. It is a co-production between Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Arsta Society for Fredrika Bremer Studies, Unga Klara, and it is kindly supported by W.I.S.P. (Women in Swedish Performing Arts).