Other Futures

Kareem Reid

"Nightlife is sometimes the only space where we're allowed, or we feel allowed, to define ourselves."

The first exhibition on Queer British Art, in Tate Britain, included a number of ‘queer stories’. In collaboration with Channel 4, Tate among other things presented a film portrait of Kareem Reid (UK) – artist, writer and founder of the club night Body Party – in which Reid shows how he navigates as a ‘queer black body’ in this world. A story about social isolation, incomprehension and the importance of the Body Party as both a temporal cushion and a foretaste of a different future.