I’m Going Out Tonight is a brief, realistic account, whose direct and oral style is testament to the author’s desire to provide an unvarnished capsule of an evening spent at La Loco, a famous club in Pigalle. […] Lost between literature and raw experience, the object produced is at the junction between club and book, between over-media –literature, “high art”– and immediate –the pure expenditure, the regulation by the bloodletting that sex, dance, and drugs represent in a saturated mental and physical ecology.

[…] Tony Regazzoni reuses the title but also the method to produce another trans object: the club-exhibition. Mixing the codes of nightclubs with those of exhibitions, he defines a separate space with a problematic status. […] An exhibition space with mediation and hanging art, but open only at night. An exhibition within an exhibition curated by the DJ. A backroom-picture rail, a diorama with an integrated (but metaphorical) Glory Hole and voyeuristic loophole. The artist DJs for his own opening, mixes other people’s hits and signs a meta-work that includes those of the artists and authors he has invited.

[…] Sharing an identical temporal reference –the 90s– as well as the same milieu –gay, party-going and militant–, they are separated by an opposite territorial context: nightlife in Paris for Guillaume Dustan, the clubs on the edge of the Jura motorways for Tony Regazzoni. This antagonism is put to work in the exhibition, the artist integrating the writer’s work to induce a differential reading of the festive and sexual practices of young gay men in the mid-90s. […] Dustan’s ultra-customised nightclub carpark car and erudite-pop-trivial punchline are then held together by necessity.

Around all this, Regazzoni, through invitations sent to other artists and authors, disperses cultural, discursive, or artistic forms that proceed from this same de-normalising and festive affirmation. The exhibition leads us to the enjoyment of forms and to the jubilant staging of these various paths to emancipation between documents, works of art, dramaturgical elements, and light scenography, from the dance floor to the backroom […].

Extracts from the text Je sors ce soir by Clémence Agnez.