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A book talk with Amelia Abraham in conversation with Fiona Anderson and Phyllis Christopher, with DJs on afterwards!
Sex, Clubs, Dissent collects over 200 photographs with essays to
form a rich, one-of-a-kind visual history of queer nightlife and its
relationship with image-making
Interrogates what efforts to document and interpret nightlife
through photography and film reveal about our shifting relation-
ships with these sites of community, pleasure, and dissent
With essays by Amelia Abraham, Sunil Gupta, McKenzie Wark,
Rene Matić, Ajamu X, Jack Parlett, Tavia Nyong’o, Brontez Purnell,
Adam Zmith,Sita Balani, Sweatmother, Ariel Goldberg, Asa Seres-
in, Legacy Russell, and Tourmaline
Sex, Clubs, Dissent charts an expansive visual history of Queer nightlife through the
lens of photographers, filmmakers, and artists. Edited by author Amelia Abra-
ham, the book explores how image-making has fostered, and at times jeop-
ardised, 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 work by Lola Flash, Reynaldo Rivera, Del Lagrace Volcano, Wolfgang
Tillmans, Roxy Lee, Lyle Ashton Harris, Elegance Bratton, Phyllis Christopher, Bruce
LaBruce, Chloe Sherman, Amos Mac and many more.
