JOHN DI STEFANO
DISCO project [1991-1993]
The project challenges the ahistorical notion that the discotheque was merely a space for ‘leisure activity’ by positing it also as a significant historical and cultural place created as an expression of contemporary urban gay identity. It retraces an autobiographical trajectory back to a pre-AIDS period in order to mourn a generation of gay men who were part of the “disco generation” and who have also succumbed to the disease.
The installation project consists of the following discrete works:
Never Can Say Goodbye (1991) - billboard (3m x 7m)
Tell Me Why (1991) - time-based media installation – audio / photography (variable)
(Tell Me Why) The Epistemology of Disco (1990) - single-channel video (24 minutes) (see above)
Coming of Age (1991) - published artist project - offset
Never Can Say Goodbye - billboard


Tell Me Why (1991) - time-based media installation





