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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 15, 2008
ROB ROTH, CHI CHI VALENTI and XRIS SMACK! UNVEILED
CLICK + DRAG 3.0
"THE HALLUCINOGENIC TOREADOR"
SANTOS PARTY HOUSE
100 LAFAYETTE STREET NYC
9 PM-4 AM
CLICKNYC.COM
TO OUR AUDIENCE AND COLLABORATORS THANKS FOR YOUR INCREDIBLE, JOYFUL RESPONSE TO CLICK + DRAG 3.0. THE NEXT EDITION WILL BE HELD IN FALL 2009. TILL THEN, FEAST YOUR EYES ON THE FOLLOWING REPORTS
AND GALLERIES:
MOTHERBOARDS CLICK + DRAG 3.0 TOPIC
VILLAGE VOICE SLIDESHOW
JACKIE FACTORY FLICKR SET
The pioneering "Cyber/Fetish/Gender-Hacking" party CLICK + DRAG, which ushered out the 20th Century in style, returned as a new large-scale
annual! Two of Click's founding producers - director and visual artist ROB ROTH and impresario
CHI CHI VALENTI - joined with XRIS SMACK! of the
long-running SMack! parties to shape this latest incarnation. The first of their cyber-spectacles, CLICK + DRAG 3.0: THE HALLUCINOGENIC TOREADOR,
was unveiled on November 15 at sympatico venue SANTOS' PARTY HOUSE.
CLICK + DRAG 3.0 featured multimedia works directed by Roth and installations and performances by many collaborators from the two previous iterations, on two floors. Returning were 1.0 producer and Burning Man eminence ABBY EHMANN as the "KINK CONTROLLER",
DJs JOHANNA CONSTANTINE and SAMMY JO, Minneapolis-based Trans-Star VENUS DE MARS and "Method Go-Go" icon FALON. 21st century additions included
FX WIZARD BASIL TWIST, theatrical butoh ensemble VANGELINE THEATER, sensationalist AMBER RAY, glitter-dusted cabaret troupe
THE PIXIE HARLOTS, and DJs JOHNNY DYNELL, the "FAERIE DJ POSSE" MALAKAI (San Francisco) and ANGELO and XRIS SMACK!
A STRICT CYBER/FETISH DRESS CODE WAS COMPLETELY ENFORCED
WEAR CYBER, FETISH, TRIBAL, GENDER-HACKING, FAERIE, ANIME, PSYCHEDELIC, POST-APOCALYPTIC, PRIESTESS, RAINBOW, GOTHIC, or BRILLIANT BLACK.
CLICK + DRAG began as the Saturday-night weekly at Valenti's experimental MOTHER nightclub in 1996 and ran for four years in over two hundred themed editions. The new hybrid built on a body of work called INTERJACKIE, evolved by Roth, Valenti and costume/fashion designer KITTY BOOTS at JACKIE 60, beginning in 1994. With the addition of sex journalist ABBY EHMANN, the four producers explored the interface between nightclubs and computers as CLICK + DRAG built a fanatic following. With their rigorously enforced "STRICT CYBER/FETISH DRESS CODE" the producers ensured that only participants were allowed in. The creative collaboration introduced some pioneering aspects to the Nightworld, including Roth's notorious "Bathroom Cam", and also gave birth to THE MOTHERBOARDS NYC, a nocturnal online community.
When MOTHER closed in 2000, Roth, Boots and Ehmann launched CLICK + DRAG 2.0, a monthly edition at FUN. In its new larger format, CLICK + DRAG was thriving until the events of 9/11 shut down Chinatown for many months. Since the last edition of Click 2.0 that Fall, one of the city's most seminal and creative parties disappeared for seven years - though its many tribes stayed connected online.
CLICK + DRAG 3.0 introduced an even larger format on two floors, preserving the night's strict dress code and pansexual mix of fetishists, artists, gender-hackers and "Glam Nerds." This rebooted evening was inspired by the Dali painting "THE HALLUCINOGENIC TOREADOR", cyber-shamanism, the writings of TERENCE MCKENNA, and the new tribalism that brings Click's audience and performers together both online
and at large gatherings worldwide.
THE JACKIE FACTORY NYC
events@jackiefactory.com
212 929-6060
RELATED LINKS
Click + Drag Facebook Group
Click + Drag MySpace
Rob Roth rob-roth.com
Chi Chi Valenti mothernyc.com/empress
Xris SMack! and SMack!
Mother site mothernyc.com
Photos and Images: Left - CLICK 3.0 Invite, photo and design, ROB ROTH, model DARRELL THORNE * IGGY and clone at CLICK 2.0 * Right - CLICK + DRAG invite circa 2000, featuring MARTI DOMINATION * CLICK + DRAG founder and director ROB ROTH at Beltane * Trans-Star VENUS DEMARS
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