Join us for an online lecture by the writer and scholar McKenzie Wark. As part of a lecture series following R27: Party as Form, Wark will present a lecture based on her recent book Raving.

“What is an art of life for what feels like the end of a world? In Raving, McKenzie Wark takes readers into the undisclosed locations of New York’s thriving underground queer and trans rave scene. Techno, first and always a Black music, invites fresh sonic and temporal possibilities for this era of diminishing futures. Raving to techno is an art and a technique at which queer and trans bodies might be particularly adept but which is for anyone who lets the beat seduce them.”[1]

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The event is free and open to all. Join the Zoom call via this link.

About McKenzie Wark

McKenzie Wark is an Australian-born writer and scholar. Wark is known for her writings on media theory, critical theory, new media, and the Situationist International. In 2023, she wrote the book Raving about the queer and trans rave scene in New York. She is a professor of Media and Cultural Studies at The New School.

Background Information

The Party as Form lecture series grew out of PRAKSIS Residency 27: Party as Form, convened this past May & June by Kelly Lloyd and Shannon Stratton.

Party as Form is Shannon Stratton, a curator and writer based in Chicago who taught the first session of Party as Form at Ox-Bow School of Art in 2012, and Kelly Lloyd, a transdisciplinary artist and educator working out of London who inherited the delivery of Party as Form at Ox-Bow. The participating residents are: Fergus Tibbs, an artist, DJ, and cultural producer originally from Scotland, now based in Bergen, Norway. 'Tope Ajayi, a Nigerian multi-disciplinary artist and a cultural curator. Banu Çiçek Tülü, a sound artist, music producer, DJ and researcher from Turkey based in Berlin. Tor Lukasik-Foss, an artist, songwriter and storyteller living in Hamilton, Ontario. Matilda Moors, a London-based artist and educator. Sara Clugage, an artist, writer and editor, living and working in the United States. Åste Amundsen, an artist and researcher creating live interactive experiences, born in Oslo currently working from Germany. Lexie Owen, an Oslo-based interdisciplinary artist from Canada.

[1]McKenzie Wark, Raving. Durham: Duke University Press, 2023.

Photo: McKenzie Wark © Clémence Polès

Party as Form is supported by KORO (Public Art Norway)