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Dark Freak celebrates the innate vi-tality of all things. It is a roving, spo-radically reoccurring party that opens spaces for ephemeral inter-twining with the strange, often sur-prising, liveliness of self and other. In the party’s space of encounter, sub-stance and creature are invited to express their personae and perform in reciprocal seductions. Drawn out by the glow of a new luminescence, massaged into visibility through en-tanglements with kindred others, the sensual exuberance of matter is brought to the fore. The self’s en-counter with other inhabitants of this space creates moments for resonance with those different and foreign.

The moment of contact—touch, taste, gaze—becomes one of uncanny delight. Sensations slide from un-ease to pleasure, desire to hesitancy, as contact deepens and the essential

liveliness of another is released from latency and inattention, revealed and brought to flourish.

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