"Movement is an abstraction," Marcel Duchamp explained when discussing the figures in his paintings. On those canvases, "successive images of the body in movement" offer "formal decomposition; that is, linear elements following each other like parallels and distorting the object. The object is stretched out, as if elastic."
Ultimately, Duchamp insisted, movement is "a deduction articulated within the painting, [it] is within the eye of the spectator, who incorporates it into the painting." Clubs are much like those paintings. Nightlifers need to see movement in them, through them--not just in the people dancing to, say, DJ Michael Magnan's beats at Bonbon last night, as Celso (pictured above, around Jordan Fox above center) and others did. Clubs need to offer places to move so that you can change your vantage point of the fantastical reverie, so that you can enjoy your own parallelism in the imagery you take in and reassemble from the evening.
The blur that the evening may well become should start off with angles, color, and lights. It should be accompanied by a determined bass drum and maybe some snare for inspiration. The beat should always have, as Michael Jackson's musical director in This Is It articulated Michael's criticism of the pacing and sound of the track they were rehearsing at the time, "more booty in it."
Even if you're not dancing, as Eric Halliwell (pictured above center) and Matthew Heresy (pictured further above center) weren't, your body still complements the scene, or its Cubist decomposition, à la Duchamp, that I try to capture in digital canvases.
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