CLUB THEORY

Presented by Sally Olds & Kōtare

Hosted by Mpavillion
28/11/2019
Talk #85

Image by Claudia Greathead

Kōtare and Sally Olds present “Club Theory 2.0”

We’ve noticed the ‘I’ in club writing which seems inconsistent with the communal nature of the club. In this lecture, we build on Club Theory 1.0 to examine the relationship between genres of contemporary writing and clubbing.

KÕTARE (aka DJ Sezzo) is a proud Ngāpuhi woman, DJ, writer and curator. She is interested in what it is to be modern Māori, and writes about the relationship between colonisation and the magic of the club. Kōtare created the experimental art club night Precog, and the Maori-Australian art collective Ngāti Kangaru. In 2013, Kōtare began some of the first underground intersectional queer club nights in Meanjin/Brisbane and hosted the Underground Hip Hop show on 4zzz. Since then she has played at Dark Mofo, MONA FOMA, Next Wave Festival, GoMA, Mardi Gras, MCA, IMA, Carriageworks, Firstdraft, Falls Festival, and has supported the likes of Moor Mother & Black Quantum Futurism, Klein, Le1f, Cher, Coolio and Charli XCX (to name a few). Kōtare lives and works in Naarm/Birraranga/Melbourne.

SALLY OLDS is a writer from Queensland living in Narrm/Birraranga. She helped start and was a contributing editor of literary journal Bumf and her own work has appeared in un Magazine, AQNB, Howl & Echoes, and more. Her current research and writing considers labour and collectivity, which she is also exploring in a thesis at the University of Melbourne. She has co-authored texts on clubbing with DJ Sezzo/Kōtare, is a writer-in-residence for club night Precog, and is particularly interested in the relationship between clubbing and theory.