TRAXXX: Black Queer Nightlife in Hi-Fidelity
With madison moore and BAE BAE

TRAXXX is an invitation for you to come and catch the beat. Black queer dance floors have always served something else — a vibrant and vibrating antidote to the here and now. The most important clubs in Black queer nightlife history, from The Warehouse in Chicago to Paradise Garage in New York, were known for serving ovah beats, guiding clubbers eager to ride waveforms to other dimensions. What do these frequencies of Black queerness make possible?

madison moore is an artist-scholar, DJ, and sequin queen. His research is broadly invested in the aesthetic, sonic, and spatial strategies queer and trans people of color use to thrive in the face of rolling catastrophe. His first book, Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric (Yale University Press, 2018), offers a cultural analysis of fabulousness as a practice of resistance. He is currently writing a new book called How to Get Your Nightlife that offers a journey through the iridescence of queer nightlife.

This program is presented in conjunction with Carl Craig: Party/After Party.

Party/After-Party was commissioned by Dia Art Foundation.

Carl Craig: Party/After-Party was curated by Kelly Kivland, former Curator at Dia Art Foundation, with Randy Gibson, Manager of Exhibition Technology. The Los Angeles presentation is organized by Alex Sloane, Associate Curator, with Anastasia Kahn, Curatorial Assistant, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Admission to Carl Craig: Party/After-Party is free courtesy of Carolyn Clark Powers.

Lead support is provided by Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss.

Exhibitions at MOCA are supported by the MOCA Fund for Exhibitions with generous funding provided by the Earl and Shirley Greif Foundation.

The artist thanks Christophe Chapelle, Sonic Lab Studio; Nazy Nazhand, Project Consultant and founder of Nazhand Art & Culture; and John Torres, Lighting Designer.