Out Now: ‘Sex, Clubs, Dissent: Visualising Queer Nightlife’
MACK
Charting an expansive visual history of queer nightlife through the lens of photographers, filmmakers, and artists, Amelia Abraham's Sex, Clubs, Dissent explores how image-making has fostered, and sometimes jeapardised, the formation of queer practices, subcultures, and forms of resistance. Rather than a comprehensive catalogue or chronology of queer nightlife, this book is a love letter to those who went out and stayed out. 
Featuring hundreds of photographs alongside essays and conversations by Brontez Purnell, McKenzie Wark, Rene Matić and Ajamu X, Tavia Nyong’o, Adam Zmith, Sita Balani and Sunil Gupta, Ariel Goldberg, Sweatmother, Asa Seresin, and Legacy Russell and Tourmaline. 
'In those places where queer nightlife has flourished, even if temporarily, it has been photographed for posterity, for pleasure, and often as a kind of questioning. An attempt to understand how shifts in queer nightlife reflect our evolving movements. What nightlife gives us, and what is lost when it is taken away.' Amelia Abraham 
‘The book isn’t didactic, nor does it present the images as canonical (although many are iconic); it simply celebrates queer nightlife as a space for experimentation where ways of loving and living are enacted fully.’ Frieze UPCOMING EVENTS Bernice Mulenga, Amela Abraham & Gem Fletcher: Sex, Clubs, Dissent Offprint Afters: Sex, Clubs, Dissent & Cruising Archaeology II MACK Cinema Club: Cruising with Amelia Abraham and Asa Seresin Phyllis Christopher, Fiona Anderson & Amelia Abraham: Sex, Clubs, Dissent Amelia Abraham: Sex, Clubs, Dissent Header image © Kary Kwok; body image 1 © Archivo de la Memoria Trans Argentina; body image 2 © Jean Cleverley      MACK |
