Inspired by Dutch video artist Rineke Dijkstra's 1997 project in which she took Dutch and British party kids out of the club and and shot them in front of a plain white cube, photographer and director Erik Madigan Heck has similarly taken Brooklyn club kids out of their element for a mesmerizing new video. Set to Mike Dehnert's pulsing techno track, "Detroit Switch Back to City," kids dressed in gender-bending, '90s cyberspace-inspired, Tumblr-fied party clothes writhe, vogue and pop, drop and lock in front of a blank wall. The results are hypnotic. Getting the chance to appreciate these kids' impressive looks and equally impressive dance moves completely unfettered shows that, for all the freedom that comes with the darkness/crowds/sensory overload that's associated with the clubbing experience, we might be losing something when the lights go down.
[via Nowness]
