Oxford’s smash-hit drag club-night Haute Mess takes over MAO Late, bringing together a host of queer/trans writers, performers, artists and DJs. Don’t miss a night of music from DJs viscus discus and Noneless, a live performance by Biogal and much more!
Read the full line up below.
Nightlife is often understood as a mode of escapism: in creating temporary club spaces, respite might be found from our increasingly fraught social, cultural and economic context. But in our practice of nightlife, how might this escapism be sustainable? How might it actually help us endure the world? Might there be more refuge in facing the world rather than trying to escaping it? And how might we do this in the club?
Join us Thursday 17 from 6-10pm to find out.
Under 18s must be accompanied by an adult.
Haute Mess and Modern Art Oxford have a zero-tolerance policy for racism, queerphobia, transphobia, misogyny, ableism, classism and sexual misconduct. Should you breach the terms of the space then you will be asked to leave. Please make contact with a steward if you need help or feel uncomfortable at any moment during the event.
MAO Late is sponsored by Lavazza.
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Please Evacuate Responsibly: On Donk and Drunkeness, A Conversation between Dinah and Donna.
Jacob Mallinson Bird (aka Dinah Lux) considers how the joyful revelling in queer spaces represents an infectious “queer drunkenness”, that heady, mind-altering state of queer euphoria, without necessarily engaging in narcotic activities.
Donna Marcus Duke (aka Donna The First) ponders how the revival of ‘donk’ music in queer and trans nightlife eschews raving’s aspirations for transcendence for humorous engagements with materiality.
A Hatching Place – a live performance by artist and trans activist Biogal
Based on a poem by Bertolt Becht, Exclusively Because is a visual meditation on exclusion, disruption, and beauty, shot on 16 mm film at Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre. Trans rights now.
Directed and Produced by Eli Zuzovsky
Translator: Tom Kuhn
Director of Photography: Ollie Bradley-Baker
Performer: Donna Marcus
Editor: Itai Zwecker
Composer: Adam Possener
Music performed by The Bauhaus Band
Director: John Harle
viscus discus is an experimental DJ who fuses deconstructed, polyrhythmic sounds with trashy pop treasures and transcendent synths. From jersey club and hyperpop to techno, trance and footwork, their playful sets blend between genres, heart always on the dancefloor.
Noneless will be drawing on their many years of playing violin in orchestras, time spent in Buddhist temples in South Korea and their love of breakcore and bass music to create euphoric soundscapes. Their performances offer a space for their audience to explore their sense of self and other, identity and difference, form and void.
Are you an artist looking to meet fellow creatives and share ideas about your work? Join an informal gathering in the Yard from 6-7pm, initiated by artist and practitioner Deborah Pill. Artists are invited to come together, present work and share ideas. If you’d like to present work at the session, please get in touch at programme@modernartoxford.
Please get in touch at programme@modernartoxford.
