The dark as a positive space for unrestrained physical action. In a black and noisy void like the Berlin club Berghain, our bodies can be absorbed in a darkness of sound, dance, maybe of trance and disappearing – a way of unleashing ourselves from habits of everyday life connected to screens, pace and efficiency. Engulfed by nightlife and through decolonial curatorial practices, the mind and body are set free, enabled to discard the common notion of darkness as non-knowledge, opposed to a widely recognized (Western) perception of Enlightenment as a shared truth and ideal.

Darkness as non knowledge