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The magnificent new exhibition Night Fever is a nostalgic lament for an industry long in decline – and it does have a silent disco
30 April 2021 • 12:01am
Sub Club SoundSystem at BAaD, Glasgow
Credit: Brian Sweeney
Think of it as the antidote to lockdown gloom. With parts of the world still crushed by coronavirus, V&A Dundee’s new exhibition, about the post-war evolution of the modern nightclub, focuses on a different sort of “fever” altogether: the ecstatic delirium of nocturnal revelry and release. There’s even a silent disco – though, with headphones on wires, any impromptu, peacocking dance routines, a la John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever, may prove ambitious.
It might just be a quirk of historical symmetry combined with a dash of wishful thinking but there is a school of thought which says the 2020s are going to roar as loudly as the 1920s did. The comparisons between then and now are certainly appealing: a century ago the world emerged from an economic downturn and a pandemic to an era of modernisation and progress shaped by technology and a sense of optimism. It gave us Futurism, fridges, television and the Jazz Age. If the forecasters are right, it may be about to happen all over again and if it does the Bright Young Things of the New Roaring Twenties are going to need nightclubs to party in just as much as their sharply-dressed forebears did. How appropriate, then, that the first exhibition to be held at the V&A Dundee when it re-opens on May 1 is a survey of nightclubs and nightclub design which, though it makes a gesture to nostalgia, also peers into the future. And how ironic that the first cultural sector to emerge from lockd
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