International DJ Ana Matronic celebrates Night Fever exhibition with V&A Dundee
An online event celebrating the opening of Night Fever: Designing Club Culture at V&A Dundee will entertain a global virtual audience on Friday 7 May, with free tickets now available.
The UK-exclusive exhibition at V&A Dundee is from 1 May 2021 to 9 January 2022 and developed by the Vitra Design Museum and ADAM – Brussels Design Museum, includes films, photography, posters, flyers, and fashion, as well as a light and music installation.
The launch night celebration, Tay Late: And the Beat Goes On will take guests on an eclectic night out, beginning in Dundee with virtual visits to Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dublin, New York and London, and paying tribute to the diversity and resilience of club culture across multiple cities and communities.
International DJ, Scissor Sisters performer and host of Dance Devotion on BBC Radio 2, Ana Matronic is preparing to join the celebration from New York with an exclusive DJ set, playing tracks inspired by some of the world’s most iconic nightclubs featured in the Night Fever exhibition, from Studio 54 to Manchester’s Haçienda.
While writer-musician Kayus Bankole of Mercury Prize-winning Scottish band Young Fathers is part of the Tay Late line-up and will use spoken word, visuals and original sound in a newly commissioned film that explores communal experience, dancing and togetherness.
Ana Matronic is known for providing the soundtrack for crowds on dancefloors all over the world. She previously played to a sold-out live audience inside V&A Dundee as part of the University of Dundee’s Festival of the Future in October 2019 and has said she “can’t wait to bring that same dancefloor energy into people’s homes” on the evening. “Night clubs have always been spaces for innovation and exploration, places for finding yourself as well as an escape from the everyday.
“My own personal evolution would not have been as grand or fabulous had I not spent my nights in sweaty, glorious communion with my fellow dancers, drag queens, and denizens of the disco.
“It is my privilege and honour to join forces with V&A Dundee to present Night Fever and pay tribute to the vast culture that not only allows for fun and frivolity, but also for deep connection, self-inquiry and growth.”
Nichol Keene, Creative Programmer at V&A Dundee, said: “At a time when clubs and communal experiences have been starkly absent from our lives, we are excited to be bringing together designers, DJs, artists, musicians and more to celebrate these important spaces and the people that make them. Doing this digitally means we can invite audiences to tune in from all over the world.”
Free tickets for Tay Late: And the Beat Goes On can be booked online: https://www.vam.ac.uk/dundee/event/299/tay-late-and-the-beat-goes-on