Naz Cuguoğlu, The Future of Museums Is a Dance Floor, Hyperallergic, 20 April 2026
The rave offers a temporary homeland, a space where belonging is felt rather than declared.
I remember a dance floor for what it allowed us to imagine. In the haze of strobe and bass, we built worlds. We mourned what we had lost and rehearsed what might come next.
As a curator, I understand raving as a transformative method of worldbuilding, one that can expand out of the warehouse and into the museum. Rave culture has long been dismissed as escapist or unserious, dance floors as hedonistic or indulgent, places of temporary release rather than political formation.