Nightclub
Nightclub, by New York artist Carla Liss, is a two-screen video performance of a private event which took place at the Franklin Furnace, N.Y., in April of 1980. At that time Liss read a series of seven dreams to an audience consisting of only those people who appeared in the dreams she was recounting. The reading and the audience response to the reading were videotaped simultaneously on two systems, and are played back correspondingly.
The dreams in Nightclub are about the art world, feminism, sex, love, death and transcendence. Between dreams, fragments of reggae and rock and roll music are intercut as oblique references to the previous dreams. The dreams prove to be amusing stories, and while the tape is serious in intention, the results are quite comedic.