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shinyboy, 21
Not interested in caresses and vanilla. Only sweat and struggle. I like to feel like a hero in a trap.
Yes, I look young, but I don’t like pity because of it.

Ideal Master:
+ I don’t care about your age or body type.
+ You like blond Slavic young looking boys.
+ You like to see a boy hanging from the ceiling by his wrists and ankles chained to the floor.
+ You like long term torture of a boy on rack table.
+ You like to watch a boy in agony.
+ You like to milk a boy hard and constantly.
+ You have the opportunity to keep a boy for a week.

There will be a lot of sweat and tension and screaming. If this doesn’t scare you – write.

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freakazoid- Jun 13, 2025
He calls it funishment.

 

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cantbebothered, 20
No limits gunsucker and gunbottom here looking for the ultimate fun…

Recently moved to Germany from South Korea since I was told here is where the monsters live…

Comments

cantbebothered (Owner) – Jun 18, 2025
Hope to cum no more.

Elaboration – Jun 14, 2025
if u looking for a guy who cares if you pull the trigger, forget it, cause this guy is as cold as a stone of ice, that will not survive too long in hell.

Turnmeonbabe – Jun 5, 2025
Thinks that his age and looks and fatalism give him the right to treat people like they are garbage.

 

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Jordanalwayshorny, 19
This is what gets me off: I show up at your place to be the submissive bottom you want. You look at pictures of my girlfriend and tell me all nasty things you’re going to do to her while I suck you off. That is the hottest shit around.

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masterofpain – Jun 20, 2025
Though I used blackmail to take this slave as my property it is valued it is cared for and seen as my prized possession.

Jordanalwayshorny (Owner) – Jun 9, 2025
OMG you’re a liar, you didn’t ask me to deliver anything what are you even talking about? You fucked my mouth like an animal and brought a fucking holocaust on my girlfriend with your word and you cummed three times… and you didn’t like it? I’m not gonna hide your bad comment because you’re ridiculous.

Cactuscooler – Jun 9, 2025
I have met this boy a few days ago. Nice face, but does not deliver what you agree on. One of the worse encounters.

 

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snortcokeoffmyass, 18
It’s Elis is what you can call it It’s a lowlife drug addict animal shit owned by Mastershit. Its Master orders it to look for a perverted and deviant Master lowlife scum to force drug it continously and transform it to a fucking disgusting lowlife permanently thrown into the darkside and he’ll throw in a free set of steak knives 🔪.

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ElliottKnight – Jun 10, 2025
I’ve stripped away all distraction, prepared the space, deleted his socials, and lit the red light.

PotentRage – Jun 7, 2025
I’m a 55-year-old evil psychopathic snuffer. 23 years of snuffing subs who thought they had limits until they met me. I don’t take no for an answer. I don’t want tourist boys playing dress-up. I want the ones who beg for breath, and know they won’t get it. I don’t do back-and-forth. You show up, strip down, shut up, obey, and die. That’s the deal. Everything else is noise.

snortcokeoffmyass (Owner) – Jun 3, 2025
Why did my step mother turn me into a meth using sissy?

ElliotJParker – Jun 2, 2025
That’s the porn star Elis Attaxxx and he knows karate.

FuckByDog – Jun 2, 2025
My dog fucked him.

 

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onlycryintherain, 21
My partner of a couple years is pretty vanilla, so we are taking a 3 month pause. Using this time to sate my curiosity about what being buried alive for a while (like a few days or week, with an air supply) feels like. Ideally to stay with my burialist a week or 2 because to return to my partner after I’ll need a while to recover.

Only want one burialist and would pay $50-100 a week. Won’t send face pics just cause my partner knows a lot of people. He knows I’m gonna hook up, but don’t want him knowing how far I’m going. Willing to send deposit within 2 days if I find the right one.

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onlycryintherain (Owner) – Jun 15, 2025
No I don’t “want head?”

 

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sub4relocationtpeff15, 18
Excuse my spanish as I am using a transltor. It is my dream that my adopted son Pedro be taken across the border into mexico where he’d be used in live shows and live streams while his captors keep every penny. His age is in the username.

I’ve recently started littraly fucking him senseless and am in the process of stretching out what was once a tight little perfect pink hole. He’s hot as fuck and has a very very cute ass and a 6 and half inch perfect dick.

I have 25k usd for once he is taken. Happy to prove.

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iwantslave – Jun 22, 2025
I know Pedro’s friends and they’d be fine with this.

Anonymous – Jun 20, 2025
Those photos are stolen from my Instagram. I’m 20 yo, heterosexual and my name isn’t Pedro. The man in the photo is my tennis coach.

sub4relocationtpeff15 (Owner) – Jun 11, 2025
I also have a biological son of 13, and my mind is litteraly taken over with the thought of fucking him. He is genuinely the hottest little fucking 13 year old around. And it’s looking inevitable that he’s gonna end up joining his brother.

sub4relocationtpeff15 (Owner) – Jun 9, 2025
He was snatched by the government and forced to give head to an entire football team drugged.

sub4relocationtpeff15 (Owner) – Jun 4, 2025
I’m so sick and perverted that I will scare you.

 

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MassiveGangBang, 18
Just discovered that my BF thinks it would be insanely hot if I was the gay boy version of Bonnie Blue and got fucked by as many guys as possible in one go. I have autism and ADHD and I am COMPLETELY PASSIVE.

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ryandom – Jun 16, 2025
Give me your brain and I’ll make things so, so, so, soooo much easier for you.

BenSilver – Jun 12, 2025
Bi, self-styled comedian, straight forward, yapper, weird

 

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BartSimpson, 19
please import me somewhere out of poland forever

legal measures like conservatorship may be needed

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Master4slave788 – Jun 8, 2025
How about Australia? I have 3 houses, 3 dungeons and 4 cars.

BartSimpson (Owner) – Jun 8, 2025
i want to be loved and i want you to want me to win in life

Tobi300 – Jun 8, 2025
My name is Tobías Sebastián Pérez Patiño, I’m 45 years old, I was born in Argentina but live in Oxford, England.
My favorite color is red and my favorite food is a hamburger. My favorite male and female singers are Adele and Freddie Mercury. I own a gym. It was my inheritance from my parents when they died in an accident during an argument with me.
When it comes to sex with you, I would want to fuck, rim, give golden showers, scat, and everything in between.

 

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Darkclick, 22
I’m a professional content creator with a submissive twink performer slave launching an extreme degradation studio project in South Florida.

This is not amateur hookup filming — I’m building a fully branded studio franchise for extreme filming focused on:

• Excessive verbal degradation
• Fearplay
• Deep throat and ass abuse
• Cum storage & consumption
• Breeding, CNC, TPE, extreme objectification

I’m actively seeking one or more consistent dominant brutal partners to film recurring scenes with us.

YOU:
Uncut, XXL cock, heavy shooter preferred and reliable dom energy.
✅ Must be confident in verbal domination (degradation scripts provided).
✅ Comfortable with very rough degradation play.
✅ Comfortable being filmed repeatedly (masked for extreme scenes).
✅ Paid per scene + profit share options.

Comments

Darkclick (Owner) – Jun 9, 2025
I get why you faggots need to praise my twink, but fags should message me if they want a response. Just don’t use lots of dumb emojis or words like “hehe”, which isn’t even a fucking word.

mouthf – Jun 9, 2025
Insanely amazing butt. A Chrysanthemum. It pushes the art of horniness to its poetic limits.

HollywoodTopPig – Jun 9, 2025
I have psychic abilities and my reading from those photos is that he’s an aspiring rock musician who plays the piano. Am I wrong?

Beg4MyAttention – Jun 9, 2025
damn damn .. so yong and also a hot looking pig not on meds! deffo want to dump a hundred toxic loads inside yr fucking hot pig no regrets

 

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Blueface, 22
Former Master converted into a suicide slave.
Zero dominant energy left in it.
OWNED BY SlaveOwnerXXT
Message its Master before messaging it.
It cannot reply without its Master permission.
Messages monitored by its Master.
It is super nervous.

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LORDandMASTER – Jun 17, 2025
Is it capable of writing a genuine application explaining its eligibility as a 24/7/365 suicide slave as well as detailing why its abilities and skills form the best prerequisites for serving me?

Torturerjon – Jun 16, 2025
What an extraordinarily welcome turn of events!

SlaveOwnerXXT (Owner) – Jun 14, 2025
Won’t suicide unless it’s horny and scared of you.

 

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crimewave, 21
A Sir who is into intox of a fag (alcohol/pills/Keta/meth/poppers/etc) is of absolute importance to me.

At minimum having a Sir say “gulp” as I swallow big gulp after big gulp of alcohol for him.

I need to lose control of my mind which is why I LOVE intox overload/shut off.

I have had Masters instruct me to take gulps of alcohol on their command as they fuck up my mind with drugs until I don’t care what they do to me at all.

I will not report you no matter what you use and do to me.

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Cumbearer – Jun 17, 2025
I fed him pills and whiskey until his already basic English crumbled into a few swear words and gurgling. Then I fucked his boozy mouth and throat with the emptying bottle, drool running from his lips, eyes watering, nose running, eyes rolled back in his head – that wet, glugging sound made me sick with desire – until his saliva was so alcoholic it could have sterilised a thermometer.

 

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hypocritehyena, 23
He must have black leather couch! His car must have black leather seats a bmw! I will fucking rape his black leather couch! I want to lick leather bite leather slap it just do whatever I fucking want! When I’m lying on the leather couch I want to hear the sound of the leather being smacked by my hands! I want to squish the leather all over my dick! I want to grab the leather couch cushions and squeeze it so I can see the creases! Then I want to be inside his car fucking the leather seats front and back for as long as I want. The car should be a bmw or a Subaru Legacy or a Mazda! They have the best looking seats! I want to rape leather seats so badly! I must be choked by his black leather gloves and put his leather fingers in my mouth so I can lick leather gloves! He must slap me choke me suffocate me in leather! I want to cum on everything! Cum on the leather couch after raping it with my dick come on the front and back leather seats in the car come on his leather jacket cum on his leather gloves. He must wrap me and bury me in his leather! He must rub his leather pants all over me buried in his leather pants! LEATHER! Give me that fucking leather! I wanna cum all on that leather making loud noises like a DOG!

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Ramses – Jun 2, 2025
Yo, sniff my leather stink after some fuckin’ savate, it’s some animal shit, a goddamn love potion. My dick, a trophy cock, smells like shrimp under the foreskin, peel that shit back slow and taste it before you suck my meat like a titty. A big ol’ loogie, green and thick, right in your yap, that’s my dominance, swallow that slime with a smile, bitch. Don’t just taste, analyze my shit, the salt of my skin, the tang of my jizz, the heat of my boner in your hungry mouth. My hands after throttlin’ your neck, sacred relics, man. Sniff my leather gloves before you take ’em off, peelin’ my gloves like a goddamn banana, lickin’ the finger jam, those cheesy little nuggets. Breathe that stank back in my face. Feel the vein in my cock throbbin’, my purple-ass head shinin’ with cum and maybe some piss. Suck my dick dry, polish that motherfucker with your tongue, that big piece of meat fillin’ your whole mouth. If this shit gets you hard, hit me up. Tell me you wanna be my dirty little leather stankin’ slut. Admit you want it, and the transformation begins, total and irreversible. Your will? Gone. You’ll learn to crave my shit. You’ll be addicted to me, the architect of your orgasms, the master of your thoughts. Get ready to be a whole new kinda fucked up.

 

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Skintightjeans, 19
Hi, I’m Oleg. I’d like to find a new father who is heavily into incest. But if it doesn’t work out, it’s okay, at least I tried. I speak Hungarian, I lived in Hungary as a child, then we went back to Russia. Then recently, a few years ago, I had to go back to Hungary. Everyone knows why. I don’t want to talk about that anymore.

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Noee – Jun 10, 2025
I also find out that recently most of father are serving their son so well, I alway confuse who is son and who is father, why the father so care about the son feeling, why need to know about favorite of the son and make the son enjoy? You make a son because of want the son to feel enjoy? I never care about my son feeling before, that why I feel confused, why most father become son of son, son become father of father.

GodOfFags – Jun 10, 2025
I’m looking to literally douche your ass and drink it, idc abt anything else but if you want me to do something else I’m down.

Noee – Jun 10, 2025
I have a son and think I am so lucky to have this son and dont think have another luck to get the similar son again, so just come to this app for chatting.

 

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ErstwhileTwink, 18
just rape boy even he is not horny
condom or lube is not necessary
load in boy pussy
rape boy again and again
boy will definitely be knocked up eventually

Comments

poppersAndBriefs – Jun 18, 2025
He’s into being force fed poppers by a bear wearing a polo shirt in a dark room.

Hexenzirkell – Jun 15, 2025
I’ve seen you walking around downtown and you turn me on as hell, make me shoot in my pants uncontrollably even in public.

MaxBrut – Jun 13, 2025
I recently hooked up with ErstwhileTwink, because I was craving a submissive twink where I could be my old self again.
Could do what my boyfriend cannot and does not want to give me.
Although I was subsequently wracked with guilt, I really do not regret my choice. For me it was not hours of unleashing two years of repressed rapist energy, but a therapy that I needed, and enjoyed very much.
Thank you for being who you are and what you do!

 

 

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p.s. Hey. ** Bill, Thanks, we’ll see what the cards have in store. And thanks re: the comics post either way. I’m excited. Truly. ** _Black_Acrylic, I heave heard music that was subsequently described to me as having been Happy Hardcore. I don’t remember the music, I just remember thinking, ‘Yes, it did sound happier than the other approximate techno.’ Cool, an example. Everyone, Go listen to a Happy Hardcore track recommenced by _Black_Acrylic called ‘Fred West is Dead’. Who’s Fred West? Excuse my ignorance. ** Misanthrope, Tell him I just wish I was close enough to bake him a cake. Although the only kind of cake I know how to make is carrot cake, so actually he’s lucky. All the luck on the MRI. When is that? ** lotuseatermachine, I remember when Genesis P. was claiming he invented Acid House until the evidence proved otherwise. For me, being a shy guy, it helped a whole lot at raves when I took Ecstacy. It didn’t make me go wild and hug everybody, but it did make everything seem amazing, even myself, wow. Kay Gabriel’s novel ‘A Queen in Bucks County’ is great. Another novel-like book I’d recommend is Hesse K’s ‘Disquiet Drive’. ** Dominik, Hi!!! Thanks, thanks! I should look for a screening possibility in Vienna. There must be one. Oh, Carter Smith. I haven’t seen that film. He and I collaborated on a film project years ago that never ended up getting made. He’s a cool guy. I only like Nutella when it’s mixed with bananas. I don’t know why. Maybe it weirds me out that it’s like chocolate but isn’t. That’s the ‘Trainspotting’ sequel book, isn’t it? Tell me how it is. I’m a little suspicious. Love hoping to find time to watch this horror movie ‘Bring Her Back’ because his friends are insisting he absolutely must watch it for some reason, G. ** Sarah, Hi! Yes, I hope we actually get to go this time. I think I would literally rather die than go on a ride that goes up into the air and just twirls around upside down. That sounds like the epitome of hell. Haha, thank you for warding me off ‘Fantastic Four’. I will probably watch it on a flight because I choose movies on planes based on how much time they’ll eat up, and I’m guessing ‘FF’ must use a good 2 1/2 hours. ** julian, I’m sure there are raves in or closely around Paris, but I’m too doggedly an early to bed guy to find the prospect appealing enough. Right, Pirates counts a dark water ride, of course. From what I can tell, I agree with you re: AI, but one of my best friends is completely addicted to making art with Midjourney, and he would strenuously disagree, even though, between you and me, his work looks like a thousand other Midjourney artists’ stuff. ** Carsten, Rave was kind of the last music-based cultural movement that had an actual philosophy attached to it, as far as I can see. Honestly, I think I rather do almost anything else in the world than go to Burning Man for hundreds of reasons. Also, I’m really not a spiritual person so that part of its pull is lost on me. I went to a Rainbow Gathering once, which was kind of like the forebearer of Burning Man without the cost and corporate aspect and terrible art faux-city planning outlay, and that was very interesting but also something I fled as quickly as I could. Luck on the submissions. RT is submitted to a festival in Barcelona. I think we’ll show it in Spain at some point. Our earlier films both screened there. ** Hugo, Thanks. Well, with our scripts, we’re writing for ourselves and for no one else. I can’t imagine writing a script for some other director or producer. Although I guess the money would be nice. But I’ve never written or made art with the goal of making money in mind. Tempted to assault the audience? No, or at least not in any way that my work doesn’t already do inherently. I did not know that about Pessoa. Wow, I would certainly be curious to look at that. I try not to judge what I’m working on from a presumed outside perspective until I’m deep into editing it later. Lovely day back to you. ** Darby 🦇, Hi. Huh, interesting: those protective raves. Yeah, I feel ultra-lucky on the weather front. Really, really lucky. But the summer isn’t over yet unfortunately. Yay, fantastic, about the good interview! When will you know? What is the job? Oh, awesome about the post. Well, I don’t ever tweak or revise the guest-posts, I just put them together and try to make them look as much like what the makers want them to look like as possible. So sad about the lost package. My eyes look sad. ** HaRpEr //, It’s possible with that donkey. Oh, gosh, I don’t want to think about that, but yeah. The Corbyn move does seem hopeful from over here at least. Even little flickers of hope on the political front are so provoking. Like I said, rave had a whole philosophy behind it, and all the post-hippie emphasis on consciousness expanding with Terrence McKenna voice samples all over the place and the positivity-angled drugs and all of that. It felt very hopeful. I totally get why people are drawn to its vestiges and long for something like that. Of course the nostalgia part of the interest is boring. ** Steve, Good question which I think Ben would have to answer. I think there are underground, illegal raves going on here. I know there were some a few years ago because a couple of friends mine were often in attendance. But they’re so successfully underground that it’s hard to know if you’re not in the know. ** Uday, Right, the less pressure aspect, that makes sense. I do like the staining aspect of beets, that’s true. It’s just my taste buds that rebel. I don’t really have moves. I’m not a dancer. When I went to raves I just took Ecstacy and stood around and looked at everything and everyone and sort of nodded my head to the beats. I guess that’s my move. ** Montse Meneses Vilar, Montse, yay! I think the Deafheaven people are supposed to be nice. The singer was going to come to the ‘RT’ premiere in LA, but then he couldn’t for some reason. The Barcelona festival is called Mostra FIRE!! Quite a name. Come, come, come! (to Paris). The most splendid Thursday to you and to Xet too!!! Love, me. ** Right. This month you’re actually getting the slaves from June because I wasn’t able to post them last month due to the blog’s technical problems. Let’s hope the UK lets the post fly and that this doesn’t trigger the blog’s door closing on all of you over there. It’ll probably slip by, right? See you tomorrow.

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Mark Leckey Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999)
‘In the film Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, Leckey spliced altered video footage from dance clubs with an amalgamation of sounds to examine countercultural nightlife, revealing the poignant interpersonal energy among and socio-economic aspirations of its revelers. The video is sourced from footage of British clubs that spans trends in fashion and attitude from the 1970s to the 1990s. Despite the differences among the partygoers, Leckey’s film unites the disparate cultural moments in a frenzy of youthful, euphoric ritual. Tongue in cheek, the title alludes to Italian fashion house Fiorucci, wildly popular during the artist’s youth in the late ’70s. Although dress and taste evolve through Leckey’s edited juxtapositions, brand allegiance and material symbolism are undeniable constants in an otherwise fleeting remix of three decades of dance culture.’

 

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Michael M. Hughes Hex Putin (2022)
sigil

 

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MSHR Index Network Entity (2016)
‘MSHR is a collaborative project by Birch Cooper and Brenna Murphy. The duo builds and explores systems as a way of manifesting ecstatic sensory zones. They work at the intersection of digital sculpture, analog hardware and ceremonial performance. Their current performance series revolves around a unique system of light-audio feedback that employs their hand made synthesizers.’

 

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Thomas Van Linge Deep Down Inside (2018)
‘Sculptures made from turntable flight cases emblazoned with laser cut motifs were scattered around the space against a sinister backdrop of, a now iconic, anti ecstasy cartoon from The Sun newspaper in 1988. The cartoon is recreated on laser cut sheets of metal and depicts a cloaked Devil offering pills to unsuspecting youths, whilst hidden behind a smiley face.’

 

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David Swindells Labyrinth Details (1992)
Photo

 

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Dan Witz Brite Nite (2014)
‘Dan Witz is best known for his monumental paintings of mosh pits, but a recent exhibition saw his work extend to other realms. The artist styles himself as a 21st-century “academic realist painter” and expanded his exploration of sweaty, writhing bodies into (besides the orgy) scenes of dancers at an unidentified party in New York. In contrast to the aggression and masculinity of the mosh pit scenes, Witz’ Brite Nite paintings present, in photorealistic accuracy, the euphoria of losing yourself on the dance floor.’

 

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Conrad Shawcross GOLDEN LOTUS (INVERTED) (2019)
‘In Golden Lotus (Inverted), Shawcross silences his cerebrum to create a tribute to renegade raves’ pure emotional release. He hung a disemboweled, gold Capri Lotus Elite upside down from the ceiling. Shawcross’s car spins around to a bespoke soundtrack by DJ Mylo (Myles MacInnes).‘

Watch it working here

 

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Justin Piperger Project Zoltar (2019)
mixed media

 

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Bahar Noorizadeh Teslaism: Economics at the End of the End of the Future (2022)
‘The video is based on a musical racing game featuring Elon Musk, his self-driving car/lover, and life coach as they drive towards a shareholder meeting in a post-gamified Berlin landscape. The work takes the newly built Gigafactory in Berlin as a prism to describe the emergence of Teslaism (succeeding Post-Fordism) as a novel system of production and consumption predicated on advanced storytelling, financial world building, and imagineering “the look of the future”.’

 

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Chen Wei The Stars in the Night Sky Are Innumerable (2010)
C-print

 

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Vinca Petersen Timeline of a Raver (2021)
‘The story begins in the ecstatic ascent of rave parties in the early 1990s, which were integral to the development of techno culture. With an emphasis on hedonistic collectivity and gender empowerment, the ideology of raves were clearly at odds with the contemporary policies of the British government under Margaret Thatcher and their concepts of morality and family. This section of the work chronicles Vinca Petersen’s journey from squatting in London and raving every weekend to buying her own van and driving to continental Europe, where she lived on the road for more than a decade. In her travels, she joined up with various loose groups of nomadic music-makers, putting on illegal raves in fields and warehouses everywhere from Portugal to the Czech Republic. The piece provides parallel timelines of her personal life in rave and the progression of the free party movement itself.’

 

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Tony Regazzoni Celebration (Pretty Dancing) (2011)
‘”The forms of art have no other origin than celebration,” says writer and art historian Georges Bataille. The work of artist Tony Regazzoni echoes this maxim. He explores nocturnal rituals, both current and ancient: nightclubs, funfairs, solstice dances, and even megalithic monuments.’

 

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Masala Noir Rave Tapes (2024)
‘A compilation of house, techno, trance and jungle audio cassettes from the 90s rave era.’

 

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Zuzanna Czebatul Tristan, Kewin, Joss (2015)
Foam, polyester, metal

 

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Cory Arcangel The AUDMCRS Underground Dance Music Collection of Recorded Sound (2011-2012)
‘Once grouped with early net artists, Cory Arcangel’s recent practice delves more into musical tropes. THE AUDMCRS UNDERGROUND DANCE MUSIC COLLECTION OF RECORDED SOUND is a collection of 839 underground trance LPs that the artist bought from retired DJ Joshua Ryan. Realizing that, at a certain age, both the records and the artist himself and would outgrow the dance floor, Arcangel’s project was simply to create a catalogued archive for posterity. It’s been exhibited at museums and galleries in Paris, Montréal, Reykjavik, and more.’

 

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Andro Wekua Shoulders Grow As Sun Goes Down In My Belly (2012)
Pigmented paper, polyurethane, steel, painted silicone, human hair and basketT-shirt

 

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The Vinyl Factory & David Simms Wiltshire Before Christ (2019)
‘Visitors were greeted by large spinning cut-outs of the National Trust logo and beaming acid house smiley faces painted on to straw archery targets.’

 

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Rebecca Salvadori The Sun Has No Shadow (2022)
‘The Sun Has No Shadow is the first chapter of Rebecca Salvadori’s upcoming feature-length documentary film built on an archive of over ten years of experimental music documentation within London’s diverse cross-functional environments and music scenes. The fragmentation of the visual experience, practices of self-observation and the tradition of portraiture are some of the reflections surrounding Salvadori’s visual research.’

 

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Robin Wen Blue Rave (2023)
Ballpoint pen on paper

 

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Wolfgang Tillmans Lights (Body) (2002)
‘Vibrant flashes of light flicker through the darkness to the beat of techno music. An armada of rotating spotlights sends dazzling beams of light down from the ceiling. Colored light refracts in the mirrored mosaic surface of a disco ball. A moment of darkness elapses before the spotlights move to the rhythm of the music again. Tillmans’ first video Lights (Body) captures an auspicious moment in a club night that could go on forever.’

 

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Carl Craig Party/Afterparty (2020)
‘In Los Angeles, you can measure a show’s hype by the number of filthy bus stop benches it’s advertised on. For the last few months, bright yellow signs publicizing CARL CRAIG: PARTY / AFTERPARTY at the MOCA Geffen museum have been plastered across the city’s public transit stations, sandwiched in between Hollywood movie posters and public health campaigns about STDs. These ads, which resembled rave flyers, struck me with their hyper-visibility. Sure, there are party fliers and music festival posters all over these streets too, but never so ubiquitous and reeking of institutional money. Lauded by the media as the one of the first major art exhibitions by a techno artist in the United States, Party/Afterparty is a groundbreaking show—and the museumification of techno* brings up both potent and challenging questions.

‘Many critics also noted that the show’s poignancy drew from the ambient sense of loneliness, alienation, and yearning for dancefloor communion during the lockdowns. Deprived of actual parties that summer, many friends from the New York rave scene took the Amtrak upstate to Beacon to view the show. Some told me they wept as they danced in the nearly empty, social-distanced room. It was the closest they’d come to raving in a long time, and the strobing lights and perfectly-tuned soundtrack formed a spectral reminder of the ritual that had defined their lives.’

 

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Jeremy Shaw Phase Shifting Index (2020)
7 screen video installation, variable durations

 

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Tom Friedman Friend (2022)
Oven roaster tins, nuts and bolts

 

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Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972 (2011)
‘Recorded primarily in an Icelandic church, Ravedeath, 1972 evokes a sense of grandeur collapsing into ruin, with compositions that shift between celestial beauty and overwhelming intensity. The album as a whole unfolds like a sonic requiem for lost technology and fading echoes of the past.’

 

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Andreas Gursky Cocoon (2017)
‘Gursky has long been interested in electronic music and for more than a decade his photographs of raves and concerts have made up an important part of his work. For his newest pictures, Gursky has photographed The Cocoon Club in Frankfurt, a famous German nightclub designed by his friend, the DJ Sven Väth. The club resembles a futuristic hive and two of the photographs on view depict nearly 1,000 people dancing. Two other photographs show the club emptied of its clientele, highlighting the unusual architecture.’

 

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Lu Yang The Great Adventure of Material World (2020)
‘The great adventure of Material World – game film meshes concepts and imagery from science, medicine, art, Hinduism and Buddhism.Viewers are led by the androgynous protagonist “Material World Knight” through multiple identity transformations. In eight episodes we explore the universe, acquire energy, are destroyed and reborn, and experience internal battles with emotions and desires. Along the journey, Knight comments on life and death, happiness and suffering, desire, eternity, and the cycle of reincarnation.’

 

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Jeremy Deller Everybody In The Place: an Incomplete History of Britain 1984 – 1992 (2018)
‘A re-evaluation of acid house, a musical phenomenon that, as this film shows, did not spring out of nowhere, but owed its emergence to the social and political landscape of 1980s Britain.’

 

 

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p.s. Hey. ** Montse Meneses Vilar, Montse!!! Hi, pal. I’m good. Summer here has been dreamy cool and often wet the whole summer apart from about three hellish days. I’m guessing Barcelona hasn’t been so lucky? Nice listening there. A friend of mine is Deafheaven’s manager. I’m happy you’re on the Um, Jennifer? train. And Backxwash’s. Very cool about translating the Lippens book. Wow. Weird re: Sitges: We submitted it right before the deadline but then they declined the submission because they said it was too late, which it wasn’t. So I guess no Sitges. We did submit the film to a Barcelona festival, but it doesn’t happen until June of next year. We’ll look for other ways. So great to see you! Come visit very cozy Paris! xoxo. ** Bill, Hi. Yeah, he’s smart fun. Excellent about the gig! Yes, we’ve submitted ‘RT’ to MIX, and we’ll see. Would be awesome to share the festival berth with you if fate assists. Second. ** Dominik, Hi!!! Yay, you’re back in your hood and this hood. I’m fine. Yeah, giving ‘Room Temperature’ life is pretty much the whole story of my life right now. I think we’re right on the cusp of finishing the new film script. I’m waiting to see if Zac agrees. ‘The Passenger’ … the Antonioni film? It’s pretty interesting, if so. Look for the famous single traveling shot. Good for love! Love so disappointed that the Tuileries summer carnival didn’t have a haunted house ride this year that he bought and ate a nutella and banana crepe to cheer himself back up, G. ** _Black_Acrylic, Glad you dug Shimamoto. I think John W. told me he could hardly see the first scene in ‘Irreversible’ through his tears of joy. ** julian, Something on the blog feeding the work of someone looking at the blog is kind of the blog’s ideal goal in life. There are haunted water rides, but strangely few and far between. Very strangely. Maybe the props would get mouldy or sag or something. There are a handful of computer games where you build amusement parks. They often have word Coaster in their titles. You would probably need a very sophisticated and very open minded AI program to build the ‘IE’ ride, no? ** Uday, Hi. Oh, well, I like Shimamoto’s work obviously. Um, I don’t know, it charms and amuses and makes me think about what art is, I guess. Dambudzo Marechera is a great translation goal. I don’t know his poetry very well, but his novels would be a tough translation, I think? I feel that way about pigeons, the most underrated bird. Well, actually, I hate beets with a passion, but I will try them yet again just for you. The only food I have in my apartment right now is a baguette, but you can have it. ** jay, Hey. I get what you mean for absolutely sure. I guess the VPN providers must be having an amazing groundswell of financial input right now thanks to y’all. ‘Rimworld’, huh, I’ll see what that is. I still haven’t locked back into my Switch yet, but, when I do, I think I’m going to play ‘Stray’. Love back to you and all of yours! ** nat, Hi, nat, good to see you, it has been a while. I keep trying to imagine what looking at this blog on a phone must be like, and I just can’t. I keep thinking that stupid porn ban will either be rescinded or hacked into smithereens, so hopefully you’ll be finished post-insanity. ‘Closer’ has been known to de-tenderize squeamish innocents on occasion. Cool, obviously, if the book club takes the leap. Thanks. Oh, well, now you’re back, and I’m always here if your memory coughs something up. Have a legendary Wednesday somehow. ** Steve, MIX NYC takes place from November 20 – 22. Ace about the well timed single drop. politekid, If you’re reading this, Steve recommends Jean Douchet’s book on the French New Wave. Thanks for that. I’m actually picking up the new Wire issue today, and that is good news! ** Alice, Hey. People always pooh-pooh the effect of the internet on everyone, but, yeah, I wouldn’t have half of my best friends if it weren’t for that. Absolutely about the mutating/blossoming friendships. So much better than back when it had to happen via becoming pen pals. Okay, I’ll peer at ‘Splendor’ one of these days. James Duvall is such a lovely guy. I did a little project with him way back when. Pray tell what Via makes of ‘Eraserhead’. ** HaRpEr //, But there you go indeed. The porn ban sounds too messy to survive, but famous last words. But isn’t Jeremy Corbyn launching some left party that’s pulling in far more people than Farage’s. That’s what I read. The 70s were kind of the ultimate decade for film, it’s true, when it comes right down to it. Yeah. I of course remember that ‘Lancelot’ scene and, of course, being a Bresson film, the horse wasn’t harmed. Oh, right, that ‘Alexanderplatz’ motif. I forgot. Boy, is that a hell of a film/series/thing. ** Hugo, Oh, okay, I guess that makes sense as to why your friend’s soul bristled in response to ‘Thomas’. Pessoa, interesting. Thanks for feeling the warmth of those two novels of mine. My Tuesday was just a little busy and a bit stressful. Nothing unusual. I think I finally got over the excitement promising Friday effect and the dread producing Sunday effect, but it took forever. Thanks, script is patiently waiting for its next verdict from its collaborator. ** liquoredgoat, Hi, happily surfacing lurker! Good to see you, pal. I’m glad you’re passing through the rehab’s exit. I have two friends in sober living transitional housing right now, and they seem to be thriving actually. Hope the same for you. No, I didn’t read your last book, but I’ll get it. I’m good, doing what I always do. Man, best of luck with everything you’re going through. Stay bright and tough. xo. ** Okay. Today I invite you to explore the components of an overly conceptualised rave. Hang onto your hats. See you tomorrow.