120 BPM Opening Night

Join us from 8pm for a welcome by Professor Donald McNeill (Dean and Head of School) and Curators Sharmila & Manique - followed with a live DJ set by DJ Baba Boubou! All welcome! Bring your friends!

120 BPM - Bring Your Friends explores rave and club culture as a dynamic site of artistic and spatial practice. Curated by Sharmila Wood and Manique Hendricks, the exhibition considers nightlife as a form of insurgent urbanism, where movement, sound, and solidarity expand the right to the city.

Centring practices shaped by the Undercommons and collective world-making, 120 BPM - Bring Your Friends foregrounds how artists reclaim space through design, sound, and community-led infrastructures. Referencing both musical tempo and the human heartbeat, the exhibition positions the dance floor as a commons, an embodied zone of creativity, resistance, and shared possibility.

Artists: Priyageetha Dia (SGP), Alyson Sillon (FRA), Matthew Stegh and Justin Talplacido Shoulder (AU), Juha van’t Zelfde (NL)

Curated by Sharmila Wood (AU) and Manique Hendricks (NL)

Top image: RoXY - Juha van 't Zelfde, 2022, videostill