Club Confessional

Club Confessional participants
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Club Confessional participants
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Club Confessional participants
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Club Confessional construction
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Club Confessional leaflet, front
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Club Confessional leaflet, instructions
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Dave Everitt mixing at Pop Centrum 013
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Club Confessional, the equipment
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Club Confessional, booth floor after event
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Timelapse: construction of the Club Confessional booth
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Club Confessional, local news coverage
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A white cube was constructed in the club, inverting the familiar “white cube” gallery space. Inside, instructions encouraged participants to disclose secrets into a microphone. Their mute video was displayed on the dance floor, while their (effectively anonymous) audio was piped elsewhere throughout the club for others to hear. The cube was in constant use each night by participants, who willingly contributed deliberately ephemeral and often very personal accounts. At the Junction (Cambridge) participants tended to enter alone and “confess” with genuine personal stories, while in 013 in Holland participation was much more group-oriented. The re-broadcasted audio and video became the content of the work… created entirely within the white cube. The intention was to highlight the shallowness of anonymity in a “big brother” environment, and to invert (literally) and subvert the preciousness of traditional gallery spaces. This “gallery” became very “used” by the end of each night…