Asian Dope Boys
Sporting a gown adorned with images of Russian prison tattoos, slang words, a pair of large Japanese manga-style weeping eyes…
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Dudesweet
Pongsuang Kunprasop lied. Dudesweet’s founder and creative director told a landlord that he wished to use a small restaurant on…
Skotoboynia / VV17CHOU7
An extremely loud, happy-hardcore remix of a cult classic by Russian suicidal-psychedelic-punk-band Grazhdanskaya Oborona (Civil Defense) animates the dance floor.…
Príncipe
At a few minutes past 1:00 AM I enter the dark cave of MusicBox, a club under the bridge in…
Progresso / Club Adriatico
On a mild winter night I was sitting on a stoop outside of a club, in Milan, with a friend…
House of Mixed Emotions
Hanging outside Zurich’s trashy but steadily gentrifying Langstrasse the other night, an older artist, who had grown up in the…
Between Seeing and Touching
Sadie Benning’s early black-and-white videos convey the familiar postadolescent restlessness and ennui experienced by teenagers when confined to the banal…
Bliss
Ever since my first night out I have felt butterflies in my stomach when approaching club doors. For me…
The Cha Cha Club
In 1981 my engagement with the culture of counter-consciousness, self-organization and DIY was stimulated by an accidental meeting on the…
Tropical Waste
Down a flight of stairs, beneath an unremarkable, noisy pub in Stoke Newington, North London, lies a basement club called…
Clara 3000
Électron libre is one of my favorite French expressions. In English it is sometimes translated as “free spirit,” though the…
Noon Club
Oblivion We see a beautiful woman with a large bust, her head covered in white bubbles, her eyes closed, her…
Claude Closky
To watch Journal you should sit down on a sofa, make yourself comfortable and enjoy the show. Journal invites you…
British Art Show 6
Photography by Nick David. Opening with an immaculate installation of restrained works by Claire Barclay, Enrico David and Tonico Lemos…
My Barbarian
My Barbarian’s newest showcore rock opera is a tragicomedic farce offered in the tradition of classical Athenian plays performed at…
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
The following interview originally appeared in Flash Art International No. 161 (November-December 1991) and was conducted by Robert Nickas, an…