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
Tin Sheds Gallery
148 City Road Darlington
Tuesday to Friday: 10am-4pm
Opening Night Dance Party 8pm till Midnight!
All welcome, bring your friends!
Speeches kick off 8pm followed with a DJ set from Baba Boubou.
Baba Boubou (BB BB) is a Vietnamese, queer DJ based on Gadigal Land whose sets live somewhere between chaos, softness, and unserious unpredictability. Known for their genre-dysphoric selections, they approach DJing as a process of constant discovery, sound-spo of curiosity, and deep appreciation for music in all its forms, oscillating freely between moods, tempos, and textures.
image: RoXY - Juha van 't Zelfde, 2022, videostill
Archive and Collective Creativity
28 February 2:00pm - 3:30pm
From preserving memory to building sustainable futures—exploring the frameworks that sustain underground cultures.
2pm - 3pm: Public lecture on archiving and collective creativity in club culture
Speaker: curator and art historian Manique Hendricks
3pm - 3.30pm: Open questions with Manique Hendricks facilitated by Sharmila Wood
Event Details:
This keynote lecture delves into Manique Hendricks' research tracing the vibrant and contested history of Amsterdam's club scene. Through a presentation of various archives—from digitised flyer collections and oral histories to zoning law maps—she will explore how club cultures are documented. Her talk will ask: How do we archive something as fleeting as a feeling, a sound, a crowd? And how can these living archives serve as active tools of resistance against the erasure of queer, BIPOC, and grassroots spaces? A Q&A will follow.
Venue: Tin Sheds Gallery
Photo by Janneke Bosman, Frans Hals Museum
Online Artist Talk - Priyageetha Dia
6 March 6:00pm (AEST)
Priyageetha Dia presents on her practice, including Nightshift being presented in 120BPM- Bring Your Friends.
Priyageetha Dia (b. 1992, Singapore) is a Singaporean interdisciplinary artist whose work spans time-based media, installation, moving image, sculpture, and animation. Her practice is rooted in deep research that blends archival inquiry, fieldwork, and speculative methods to unravel complex narratives of identity, colonial histories, labour, migration and ecological systems, particularly within Southeast Asian and diasporic contexts.
Her work often explores alternative and speculative imaginaries, drawing on her own Tamil heritage and broader post-colonial experiences to question dominant cultural narratives and socio-spatial power structures. Priyageetha Dia uses digital technologies including 3D animation and game-engine-based environments alongside traditional mediums, crafting immersive and contemplative experiences.
Image: Night Shift (still from video), 2025 by Priyageetha Dia
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