Utilising a collected archive of nightlife photography spanning 1988-2018 - alongside selected interviews from photographers, DJs, promoters and dancers – Temporal Disjunction At The Endless Rave is a research project and artwork installation that draws attention to the importance of nightclubs and festivals as communal spaces for self expression and transformative practices.

Heralded not just as hedonistic activity, rave culture can be seen as an alternative form of resistance to neoliberal attacks on collectivity and a continued opportunity for rediscovering a more community focused utopian vision.

Examining rave culture through the lens of hauntology - an interpretative philosophical concept that explicitly brings into play the question of time - the project explores archival image presentation and the impact of nostalgia driven media. By disestablishing time as a sequence it transforms audio visual content into a looping construction that challenges our perception of linear memory.

WE UNDERESTIMATE THEM [NIGHTCLUBS]
AS PLACES OF PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION OR EVEN AS A COPING METHOD TO DEAL WITH THE STRUGGLES OF LIFE. DANCING IN THE DARK IS A HUMAN NEED.

Emma Warren

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