Museumnacht010 2023: NightlifeMuseumnacht010 2023: Nightlife

RoXY (version)

RoXY (2022) is a film collage by Juha van ’t Zelfde that shows how the revolutionary actions of dada, Cobra and Provo influenced club RoXY. Between 1987 and 1999, this legendary nightclub was Amsterdam’s version of the Haçienda (Manchester), Parkzicht (Rotterdam) or Berghain (Berlin), until it burnt down after the funeral of its founder Peter Giele.

The film links Johan Huizinga’s 1938 book Homo Ludens (“Man at Play”) to postwar movements of art, protest and civil disobedience. It shows rare documentary footage of radical cultural moments such as Dylaby, New Babylon and Love Ball, and features early electronic dance music from Virgo, Future Sound of London and The KLF.

For the duration of the Museumnacht, RoXY (version) transforms the museum into a dynamic labyrinth for the homo ludens in all of us. As in the film, in which we see the same problems we face today – housing shortages, state violence and the energy crisis – only decades earlier, the labyrinth invites the visitor to consider the importance of play, creativity and joy in the revolution of everyday life.

Programme

Learn about club culture and other forms of living together in the exhibition Designing the Social. Recharge your batteries and bask in the sun in The Energy Show. Stand face to face with the creative ideas of designers and artists in the exhibitions Prix de Rome Architecture 2022 and Open Archive 3.0. Step into the studio of Sonneveld House, where the Sonneveld daughters held their dance parties, and hit the dance floor to authentic Rotterdam beats in the café.