Day For Night

While many see clubbing as a murky night out in a sweaty nightclub, an abandoned warehouse, or at an open-air rave with no connection to more wholesome things that happen during the day, club culture has long been an important incubator of cultural movements and continues to provide spaces for connection, creativity, and personal expression.

This afternoon salon brings together scholars, writers, artists, and nightlife makers to enlighten nightlife as an art form, and discover the ways social and performative dance have intertwined in recent years. Participants include indomitable force in the worlds of drag, music, fashion, and nightlife Kevin Aviance (he/him); drag icon, artist-scholar, DJ, and Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University madison moore (he/they); scholar-practitioner of dance performance Ariel Osterweis (she/they) whose teaching practice includes the exploration of clubbing; and artist, performer, and event planner at The Spectrum BK Gage Spex (they/he/she); with others to be confirmed.

Presented in conjunction with R.O.S.E., the Armory’s new commission by Sharon Eyal, Gai Behar, Caius Pawson of Young, and DJ Ben UFO that sits at the intersection of arts and nightlife.