Approaching a rave is unsettling. Tracing the rattling walls of a condemned warehouse, passing through its humid threshold, the anticipatory and apprehensive swells that don’t fade no matter how many surreptitious nights one has under their belt. What follows is a game of capture and release with our senses, repressing some in order to heighten others, against a dark-ended cacophony. It compels the most repressed of us to engage our deepest expressions of bodily sovereignty. Somehow, the paradox of agency and capitulation in these rooms still feels spectral. Be it through substance-altered perception, an awe at the communal spectacle, or a fixation on a beam of light, the rave is a prism of sensorial abstraction for one to enter in their own way, all to make room for a universal experience - liberation through sonic immersion. In embracing these abstractions, this body of work manages to provide a cultural document: a vivid illumination of an elusive yet undeniable experience, without fully revealing its image. Introduction by Jonathan Raissi Logo Design by Clay Gibson

• Page Count: 120 pgs
• Year: 2025
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dimensions: 305mm × 254mm
• Publisher: COMFORT