Updated: April 30 2021, 10.49am
The Courier’s Arts & Entertainment team meet some of the people behind Night Fever: Designing Club Culture.
It’s hard not to strut a little bit at the V&A’s new exhibition, Night Fever: Designing Club Culture, which opens to the public tomorrow. It’s been a hard year. We deserve a strut.
It hasn’t been the easiest time to bring something of this scale together, and with Leonie Bell only coming into her role as Director in July 2020, it’s clearly a huge relief that she can see people come back into the building and into a new exhibition.
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Originally created by the Vitra Design Museum in Germany and Brussels design museum ADAM, Night Fever has been updated to feature a dedicated showcase of Scottish club culture, entitled The First Big Weekend, after The Arab Strap song.
It recalls the impact of venues and club nights like the Sub Club and Optimo, in Glasgow, Locarno in Dundee, Fever in Aberdeen, Club 69 in Paisley and The Rhumba Club, which has been staged across Scotland since 1991.
The exhibition – which features an eerie laser scan film of a deserted Sub Club – recalls the rise and fall of venues, ill-fated enterprises, the impact of ground-breaking eras like disco and acid house, and the celebrities who helped propel nightclubs into the limelight and the headlines.
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