It’s 3am on a Sunday and I’ve just had a coffee, which I’m chasing with a glass of bubbles for a burst of sugar and energy. I’m in the foyer of Carriageworks – a series of cavernous arts spaces housed at an old railway workshop in Redfern – sitting between two worlds.
The first is the Pleasure Arc, the ninth iteration of Day for Night: a 24-hour queer art party by Performance Space, with different promoters taking the lead at different hours. The performers rotate through the night – drag queens, burlesque performers, musicians, dancers – and slowly the crowd revolves too: revellers of all genders whose layers of clothing are peeled as the night progresses, particularly during the two-hour underwear party, Leak Your Own Nudes.
