‘Antarctica was a queer rave...,’ 2020

‘Antarctica was a queer rave…’ traces the history of conjecture and how the existence of Antarctica was hypothesized. It recounts, in a non-linear fashion, the Western imagination of the savage underworld, an imagination largely based on projection and fear. It turns this same imagination into a utopian desire: a place not populated by horrific freaks with malformed bodies and exquisite tentacles, but free from the normative conditioning of convention and straightness, free from the grids of the map as it dissolves into mists and fog. The music is analogue and recorded rogue, an acoustic rendering of EDM and 1990s rave beats. By recording single-track, on an acoustic drum set, David Soin Tappeser subverts, emulates, and pays homage to contemporary queer party culture. Credits: Himali Singh Soin with David Soin Tappeser Chapter 3: Antarctica was a queer rave before it got busted by colonial white farts, 2020 from the ongoing interdisciplinary work: we are opposite like that, 2017-2022 13 min 59 sec Commissioned and produced by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21) for st_age