NIGHT SHIFT

A programme of dance films, linked to club and rave culture, historically and politically.

I. MATT STOKES / LONG AFTER TONIGHT / 2005, 6:45

Matt Stokes’s Long after Tonight is a tribute to the British northern soul scene of the 1970s, filmed in one of the original locations, a church in Dundee, Scotland, where weekly dance events took place.

II. MARK LECKEY / FIORUCCI MADE ME HARDCORE / 1999, 15:00

Leckey’s video essay Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore is a compilation of found footage from British dance floors which chronicles Britain’s underground club scene, from Northern Soul in the 1970s to the Rave scene of the early 1990s.

III. CECILIA BENGOLEA & JEREMY DELLER  / BOMBOM’S DREAM / 2016, 12:47

Bombom’s Dream follows the fantastic adventures of the Japanese dancer Bombom as she travels to Jamaica to compete in a local dancehall contest.

IV. CECILIA BENGOLEA / LIGHTNING DANCE / 2018 / 06:03

Lightning Dance features Craig Black Eagle, Oshane Overload-Skankaz and their respective teams. Their movements refer to popular Jamaican dancehall which Cecilia Bengolea sees as infused with magical healing powers.

V. CRYSTELLE OYIRI / COLLECTIVE AMNESIA: CALL AND RESPONSE / 2019, 15:00

Collective Amnesia: call and response celebrates the forgotten history of logobi, an urban Afro-French dance from the mid-00s merging hardcore techno and coupé décalé.

VI.  LUNA MAHOUX / TIK TOK OF LOGOBI / 2022, 13:24

In her work Luna Mahoux often draws upon the economy of poor images to fight against capitalist assimilative gluttony in a cybernetic world. In this video she presents a selection of Tik Tok video excerpts with a variety of homemade Logobi dance routines.

VII. YAREMA MALASHCHUK & ROMAN HIMEY / DOCUMENTING CXEMA / 2019, 09:00

Malashchuk and Himey documented Cxema, the biggest rave in Ukraine, born after the revolution in 2013-2014. The party offered the new generation a chance to reclaim the city, to explore it and to express themselves.

VIII. DAN HALTER / UNTITLED (ZIMBABWEAN QUEEN OF RAVE) / 2005, 03:32

Opponents of the apartheid in South Africa used music and dance to make their voice heard and motivate fellow demonstrators to keep protesting against discrimination and segregation. Dan Halter’s video uses archive material to demonstrates one of the activists tactics: a war dance called toyi-toyi.

Lyra Pramuk describes her music as futuristic folk: a fusion of classical singing, pop aesthetics, performative practices, and contemporary club culture. The Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist's debut album, Fountain, was released in 2020 on Bedroom Community. Created entirely from her own voice and accompanied by electronics, Fountain is a journey fraught with emotion, sensuality, and acts of devotion that blur our perception of music, rhythm, speech, and the body. Based on this album, her live show aims to redefine the relationship between technology and humanity by proposing a post-human, non-binary understanding of life through a unifying medium: singing.

Erwan Sene is a Paris-based visual artist and musician. His sculptural and musical work incorporates, digests, and distorts the situations that he encounters. He explores the themes of contamination and science fiction in both domestic and urban settings. His album JUnQ, Journal of Unsolved Questions, released in April 2023 on PAN and accompanied by a book is the result of a dual exercise: to sketch music and to score sculptures. JUnQ creates a musical language that merges the algorithmic needs of an artificial pop star with the performance of the artist himself. The  boundaries between reality and artifice are blurred, and a dialogue between analog evolution and digital experimentation is born. Sounds are sculpted, distorted, and amplified, thus becoming hybrids.
For Night Shift, Erwan Sene presents a live performance based on JUnQ for the first time.

Zeta Lys is a DJ and audiovisual artist based in Brussels.
Her DJ sets blend a variety of sounds including atmospheric field recordings, floating melodies, deconstructed rhythms, and intense bass. In her work as a sound designer for film and video, Zeta Lys uses a similar assembly method. During her studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, Zeta Lys produced mixtapes and audiovisual shows for the STROOM.tv platform.
She performs regularly on Kiosk Radio and Red Light Radio, as well as in clubs all over Europe.

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