NIGHT PAVING

THE HIGHLINE

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Artist and director, Rob Roth presented, Night Paving: The Aural History of Jackie 60 & Mother on the High Line NYC as a site specific work for the ‘Up Late’ program in July 2016. This sound installation is a journey of storytelling and music with the producers, performers, and ~~infamous~~ attendees of the legendary Tuesday club-night Jackie 60 and the nightclub MOTHER that **originated only a block away from the Highline,** on the corner of 14th and Washington St.The event was presented as a ‘silent disco’ **immersive** listening party and tells the story of the beginnings of Jackie 60 and its transformation into MOTHER leading to its final days at the end of the 20th Century. Memories of performances, themes, personalities and the producers who made it all happen are shared with philosophical meanderings about the cultural shift that occurred during this transitional decade to the sounds of DJ Johnny Dynell. Participants observed the section of the Meat Market that housed the original space and listened to a soundscape that contributed to the folklore of this seminal moment in NYC nightlife history. With a fuchsia spotlight pointed at its original location, and a grounded mirrorball below the words “LEGENDS KNOW NO CODE” (the last line of the original Jackie 60 dress code), the audience viewed the Meat Market through an alternative historical eye and left them with a piece of unwritten nightlife history intact. From 1990 – 2000 the ‘little, dark and different’ space housed a wide range of performers from Kembra Pfahler to Mikhail Baryshnikov. Stories are shared from Mother’s creators Chi Chi Valenti and Johnny Dynell as well as performers, patrons and collaborators Kitty Boots, Marc Jacobs, Debbie Harry, Ahnoni (Antony and the Johnsons), Rob Roth, Alba Clemente, Basil Twist, Johnny Reinhold, Jack Doroshow (aka Flawless Sabrina), Joey Arias, Lucy Sexton (Dancenoise), Sherry Vine, Genesis P-Orridge (Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle), Richard Move, Connie Girl, Amanda Lepore, Justin Vivian Bond, Penny Arcade and many other “Jackie Legends” all to a soundtrack that evokes “That Jackie Feeling”.

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