Publications
Everybody SoundSystem
August 2022
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Keep On Moving*
Heather Galbraith -
Dance Parties—Feel the Bass
Emma Jean Gilkison -
The Empleasurement Effect (or, pleasure shared is potential expanded)
Laura Marsh -
Like here, like us
Grant Smithies -
You meet some of the best people on the dance floor !
Eve Armstrong, Gabby O’Connor, Josephine Cachemaille, Liang Cui, Claire Harris
Keep On Moving*
Heather Galbraith
Dancefloor props, Everyboby SoundSystem, Saturday 3 September 2022. Image courtesy of Enjoy Contemporary Art Space.
Living outside of Aotearoa for most of the 1990s and early 2000s I missed out on a big chunk of how DIY dance parties and gatherings evolved here. I never went to The Gathering, or Splore, or other festivals or club-based dance parties during that period, which all three collaborators on Everybody SoundSystem were highly active in across Aotearoa and Melbourne.
Living in London, friends were heading to raves and festivals in fields and illicit indoor venues where ceilings rained sweat and condensation. I was hanging with Indie shoegazers in pubs with sticky floors, hordes of metalheads at festivals in satellite cities, art-wanks at the Southbank Centre, and at Pontin’s Holiday Camp for All Tomorrow’s Parties festivals. All these contexts felt very, very male, or at the very least I was hyper aware of being in a minority. Dance parties and rave culture were outside of my experience.
*Keep on Movin', Soul II Soul, feat. Caron Wheeler, from Club Classics Vol. One, 1989