Programme
Auditorium – Performance from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m.
- 8:00 p.m.: doors open
- 8:30 p.m. – Performance by Ser Serpas
Foyer – DJ sets from 9:30 p.m. to 0:30 a.m.
- 9:30 p.m. – Lenny Dee
- 11:00 p.m. – Goth Jafar
The Auditorium + Foyer ticket is valid starting at 8:00 p.m. and grants access to the performance in the Auditorium and the DJ sets in the Foyer.
The Foyer ticket is valid starting at 9:30 p.m. and grants access to the DJ sets in the Foyer.
Admission until midnight.
A bar will be open during the performances.
American artist Ser Serpas hosts a second musical evening, BASEMENT SCENE, on the occasion of the closing of her exhibition "I fear (J’ai peur)" in Gallery 3 of the Bourse de Commerce.
During this performance, she is inviting performing artists to take the sculptures in her exhibition and dismantle them on the Auditorium stage. Initially created in September 2023 during the first Basement Scene performance and exhibited for several months within the installation I fear (J’ai peur), Ser Serpas’s sculptures once again become found, abandoned objects, to the beat of one of her DJ sets.
The evening concludes with two musical performances by DJs from the underground scenes in New York and Berlin, Lenny Dee and Goth Jafar.
On the following day, the resulting installation, LOCKED CLUB, will be presented for two days as a snapshot of an afterparty.
The practice of Ser Serpas (born in 1995 in Los Angeles), forged during her studies at Columbia University, is largely invested in critiquing and celebrating the value (or lack thereof) of material objects. Whether working with discarded detritus found on the street or hoarded fabric gifted to her by friends, Serpas manipulates these materials to produce art in a manner that complicates perceptions of value, imbuing what would otherwise be garbage with meaning. Two years after the opening of the Bourse de Commerce and the presentation of a series of her small-format paintings that were like intimate fragments, Ser Serpas is taking over Gallery 3 to create a chaotic space brimming with tension, an unsettling scene for visitors who will find themselves immersed in a hybrid space that makes it seem as if they have stumbled into a space that is still being built, and which is inspired by the idea of the attic.
