120 BPM - Bring Your Friends explores rave and club culture as a dynamic site of artistic and spatial practice. Curated by Sharmila Wood and Manique Hendricks, the exhibition considers nightlife as a form of insurgent urbanism, where movement, sound, and solidarity expand the right to the city. Centring practices shaped by the Undercommons and collective world-making, 120 BPM - Bring Your Friends foregrounds how artists reclaim space through design, sound, and community-led infrastructures.
Referencing both musical tempo and the human heartbeat, the exhibition positions the dance floor as a commons—an embodied zone of creativity, resistance, and shared possibility. In an era of gentrification and cultural sanitisation, it insists on the club as a vital, threatened space for transgression and care. The featured works, ranging from video to installations, act as living archives of ephemeral culture, transforming traces of rave into blueprints for more just and liberated futures.
Justin Talplacido Shoulder x Matthew Stegh (AU)
Juha van't Zelfde (NL)
Priyageetha Dia (SG)
Alyson Sillon (NL)
Curated by Manique Hendricks (NL) & Sharmila Wood (AU)
Tin Sheds Gallery acknowledges the Gadigal of the Eora Nation, upon whose ancestral lands our exhibitions take place. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge of these lands, waterways and Country.
Top image: Video still from RoXY, Juha van 't Zelfde, 2022
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