120BPM Bring Your Friends, School of Architecture, Design and Planning Tin Sheds Gallery

Together with Manique Hendricks (Curator, Frans Hal Museum The Netherlands) I co-curated the exhibition 120 BPM - Bring Your Friends at Tin Sheds Gallery in Sydney, Australia. The exhibition explored rave and club culture as a dynamic site of artistic and spatial practice. Centering 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. In an era of gentrification and cultural sanitisation, it insists on the club as a vital, threatened space for transgression and care. The featured works, ranging from video to installations, act as living archives of ephemeral culture, transforming traces of rave into blueprints for more just and liberated futures.

Artists: Justin Talplacido Shoulder x Matthew Stegh, Juha van’t Zelfde, Priyageetha Dia and Alyson Sillon.