Buy Tickets
Doors 8pm / Show 8:30pm
$13 advance / $15 door / free or discounted for members
Advance prices include ticketing fees. Request your member DICE Code here.

We All Feel Better in the Dark: the bathhouse as queer utopia

A visual lecture by Dirty Looks’ Bradford Nordeen, presented with Dark Entries Records.

Blending artist video, porn clips and experimental music, Nordeen explores the recent re-emergence of the bathhouse in queer culture. From the reissued sex soundtracks of Patrick Cowley and Coil, musicians like Ruth Mascelli and Jake Muir bring techno and vaporwave into the steamroom to ply new forms of embodiment. Videos by Oat Montien spin archival art by Patrick Angus, Alvin Baltrop James Bidgood and Jimmy Wright into their own digital utopias. These emerging artists gape the capacity for the bathhouse to create alternative strategies for pleasure that resound Cowley’s sacred pools while squatting them, revising that pearled white tile with a queer politics of the future.