SEX, CLUBS, DISSENT: VISUALIZING QUEER NIGHTLIFE

Join Amelia Abraham, author, journalist and editor of Sex, Clubs, Dissent: Visualizing Queer Nightlife (MACK, London) in conversation with Karol Radziszewski, artist and editor-in-chief of DIK Fagazine (Warsaw, Poland). The speakers will debate the essential role of nightlife photography in queer cultural history.

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.