Dance or Die - Holly Dicker cycling As part of a commission

As part of a commission over several years for Household Belfast

“Hallyu” – the Korean wave of contemporary entertainment – has reached every corner of the world

data-rich and revisionist

dispossession

creating dynamic and plural relations among and beyond participants both human and nonhuman

Dance or Die - Holly Dicker cycling As part of a commissionWhat is hardcore? It means many things to many people, and theyre all correct. Its best described as a feeling, an attitude, a way of life. Dance or Die is the first critical study of city based hard dance communities spanning three decades of musical reinvention mapped to sweeping gentrification, political intervention and seismic societal change. From its 1990 Frankfurt techno genesis, hardcore has shattered into a myriad subgenres and discrete club