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Dirty Looks, On Location
CLIT CLUB REACTIVATED
Curated by Leeroy Kun Young Kang and Vivian Crockett
Jul 30, 2015

*Clit Club Reactivated*

Clit Club Reactivated

The Clit Club was a “floating” queer and sex-positive lesbian nightclub held in NYC that promoted safe sex and existed as an intergenerational, multi-racial, and mixed class venue for women. The party was founded by Julie Tolentino and Jocelyn Taylor in 1990 and ran until 2002. Alongside a screening of work by House of Color, Nguyen Tan Hoang + Cyd, will be presentations of club ephemera and a DJ set by Ramdasha. Revisiting the Clit Club is an opportunity to reflect on the intense labor, love, relations, and creations that came out of years of showing up together publicly and privately, interpersonally and politically. On this evening, attendees will have the opportunity to engage with an interactive display of ephemera, a film screening, discussion, and to activate records of memory and current reflections surrounding the twelve year running party, community, and force known as the Clit Club. The film screening component of the program consists of three works chosen by the curators to express their sentiments towards the Clit Club as a means to explore the historical, cultural, and aesthetic modes of queer desire, sexuality, and connection.

Clit Club Reactivated is part of Dirty Looks, On Location (Jul 1–31, 2015), a biennial series of site-specific interventions across queer city spaces.

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M. Lamar
NEGROGOTHIC, A MANIFESTO
Sep 7–Oct 12, 2014
Chloé Griffin
EDGEWISE, A PICTURE OF COOKIE MUELLER
Oct 15–19, 2014
Greer Lankton, *LOVE ME*, 2015, installation view at Participant Inc, New York. Photo: Karl Peterson
Greer Lankton
LOVE ME
Nov 2–Dec 21, 2014
Emily Roysdon
IF ONLY A WAVE
Jan 11–Feb 22, 2015
Michael Smith, *Baby Ikki 3rd Birthday Party*, 1978. Courtesy of Franklin Furnace
Martha Wilson
PERFORMING FRANKLIN FURNACE
Feb 26–Mar 1, 2015
Joy Episalla, *garage 5 (extended)*, 2015. Archival pigment print on vinyl
Joy Episalla
STREET VIEW REAR WINDOW
Mar 8–Apr 12, 2015
Neil Goldberg, *One Version of Events No. 5 (Spheres)*, 2015. HD Video
Neil Goldberg
ONE VERSION OF EVENTS
Apr 19–May 24, 2015
Josef Astor, *Page + Wid*, 1999. Archival pigment print
Josef Astor
DISPLACED PERSONS
May 31–Jul 12, 2015
Dirty Looks, On Location
CLIT CLUB REACTIVATED
Jul 30, 2015

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