Club Chrome: Dyke Bar Takeover
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When
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Address
156 Forbes Street Darlinghurst, NSW 2010
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Hours
6–9PM
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Phone
+61 2 8936 0888
Australia’s first LGBTQIA+ pole dance collective Club Chrome take-over Eulogy for the Dyke Bar.
Club Chrome is a collective consisting of queer artists at the intersections of the POC and sex worker communities, whose work explores and pushes the boundaries of pole dance as an art form while always referring back to pole’s origins in sex work.
Club Chrome is invested in showcasing art from bodies that may otherwise be unrepresented, by performing in spaces that are normally delineated by convention, race, and class. In their take-over of Eulogy for the Dyke Bar, Club Chrome will be queering the gendered expectations of pole dance by celebrating and inviting a queer sexual gaze, embracing the Dyke Bar as a space for overt queer sexual desire and sensual exploration.
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Presented by UNSW Galleries, the National Art School and Sydney WorldPride, Eulogy for the Dyke Bar is a sculptural environment and memorial to bygone dyke bars. The installation incorporates a café and operating bar, and functions as an active community space for performances, cruising, socialising, and contemplating the future of queer spaces.
This project aims to reclaim the term ‘dyke’ in its most expansive sense and recognises that gender and identities are complex and fluid. Anyone who identifies with, or feels an allyship with, the dyke part of the queer spectrum is welcome and valued at the dyke bar.
Images: Club Chrome Takeover for Macon Reed, 'Eulogy for the Dyke Bar' at the National Art School Café, 2023. Photography: Cassandra Hannagan.