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a club-residency and screening by Reuben Brown at INFERNO at Colour Factory in Hackney Wick; London [October 2024]This project was made possible with the generous assistance from INFERNO and Lewis G Burton, through the 2024 INFERNO Residency.
From INFERNO:
INFERNO is a techno rave come performance art platform that prioritises and champions trans+, non-binary and queer DJs and perfomers with artist and DJ Lewis G Burton at the helm. INFERNO had its first event in February 2015 and has been growing since and now includes an annual seminar entitled “The INFERNO Summit” as well as an INFERNO zine. INFERNO marries the camp with the underground, pop with techno and the good with the bad, creating an exciting and unique clubbing experience. INFERNO has grown into a community space curated by Burton, giving a platform to emerging artists and DJs as well as showcasing new works by resident performance artists and special guests alike.
Lewis G Burton, in conversation with i-D:
“INFERNO stands alongside collectives like Pxssy Palace and BBZ, whcih have overhauled queer nightlife by centring and celebrating the community’s most marginalised members. Safe space policies are now the rule as opposed to thge exception, and queer events are thriving. “We’re really carving out own own platforms and voices,” says Lewis G Buton, who also works closely alongside Pxssy Palace. “Especially as a non-binary person, it’s been so important to platform queer and trans artists - especially with techno, where queer femme DJs in particualr are still rare.”
Over the course of my residency with INFERNO, I created a new film, commisisoned by INFERNO titled “FLUORESCENT”. The film hopes to explore various transient club-spaces from Ireland and the United KIngdom over the last decades, with a particular focus towards that of Banbridge, in County Down, Northern Ireland. By examining queer and queer-adjacent club-epherema, “FLUORESCENT” dances between the fleeting and transitory County Down club-spaces of the past, present and the imagined future (...?)
Images courtesy of Roxy Lee (via INFERNO)