We Started A Nightclub research about a friend

about a friend

capable of interpreting the demands of the contemporary

while moving studios in 2018

‘Steam Down or How Things Begin’ is a celebration of an influential weekly jam in Deptford

Claudia Rankine explores a series of real encounters with friends and strangers – each disrupting the false comfort of spaces where our public and private lives intersect

We Started A Nightclub research about a friendWhat Studio 54 was for disco, the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge was for the alternative scene of 1980s downtown New York. Located at 101 Avenue A, the Pyramid offered a mixture of cultures: from groundbreaking, irreverent theater and experimental music to anti drag that challenged the norms of gender binaries. It began in 1981 when the East Village was considered a dangerous no mans land, rents were cheap, AIDS was still unknown and a new generation of