The Belgian-German artist Carsten Holler is turning a former 1920s film studio into an invitation-only nightclub for three nights during Art Basel Miami Beach. Guests of The Prada Double Club Miami, which is presented by Milan’s Fondazione Prada, will be able to move between the club, a somber space decorated in stark colours, and a colourful outdoor tropical garden, The dramatic contrast also extends to the music. In the garden, world music will play, with a special focus on musicians from South Florida, the Caribbean, and South America. Meanwhile, electronic music will dominate the indoor space. As club-goers move between the two sections, the overlapping sounds creates what Ho?ller expects to be a “schizophrenic” journey. Wyclef Jean will perform at the opening night party.
Carsten Holler’s The Prada Double Club Miami will be on view at 71 NW 14th Street, Miami, December 5–7, 2017, from 10:30 p.m. to late. thedoubleclub.co.uk
About the artist
Carsten Höller applies his training as a scientist to his work as an artist, concentrating particularly on the nature of human relationships. Major installations include Flying Machine (1996), an interactive work in which viewers are strapped into a harness and hoisted through the air; Test Site (2006), a series of giant slides installed in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall; Amusement Park (2006), a large installation at MASS MoCA of full-sized carnival midway rides operating at dramatically slowed speeds; The Double Club (2008–09), a work designed to create a dialogue between Congolese and Western culture in the form of a London bar, restaurant, and nightclub; and Upside-Down Goggles (2009–11), an ongoing participatory experiment with vision distortion through goggles. Höller’s Revolving Hotel Room, an installation that became a fully operational hotel room by night, was featured in the exhibition theanyspacewhatever at the Guggenheim Museum, New York (2008–09).
