SEX, CLUBS, DISSENT: VISUALIZING QUEER NIGHTLIFE

Join Amelia Abraham, British author and journalist, in conversation with artist Prem Sahib, to celebrate the launch of Sex, Clubs, Dissent: Visualizing Queer Nightlife (MACK, London). The editorial accomplices will debate a selection of key photographs from the book, followed by audience Q&A.

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 helped foster queer subcultures and forms of resistance. Rather than a comprehensive catalogue or chronology of queer nightlife, Sex, Clubs, Dissent is a love letter to those who went out and felt the urge to document it. In addition to five decades of photography, the book features essays and conversations by 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.