He wakes up from a kind of queer nightmare. All of these faces were beginning to be erased and washed over by a spectrum of colour and movement. All of their voices and songs and cries drowned out by a pounding 130bpm saccharine club track. All of their bodies crushed under the weight of commercial interests and corporate deals. But before their erasure, before their complete disappearance, he’d written down the names of all of these people, some of them now dead, some still hanging on to their lives – he’d written down all the names of the people he could remember seeing in this nightmare.

DEREK JARMAN. JEAN COCTEAU. JEAN GENET. ANDY WARHOL. DAVID WOJNAROWICZ. WONG KAR WAI. KENNETH ANGER. TEIJI FURUHASHI. RYOJI IKEDA. CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS. ANA KOKKINOS. LINDA SPROUL. MOIRA FINUCANE. KATHLEEN MARY FALLON. STEPHEN CUMMINS. JYANNI STEFFENSEN. JOSHUA NASH. TOM KALIN. JOHN GREYSON. SADIE BENNING. TODD HAYNES. ANIA WALWICZ. PETER WELLS. VICTORIA SPENCE. STEWART MAIN. NIKI VOUIS. DENNIS COOPER. JUAN GOYTISOLO. DEAN WALSH. JEANETTE WINTERSON. JACKIE FARKAS. GUS VAN SANT. JULIAN SCHNABEL. MARC ALMOND. LAURIE ANDERSON. REINALDO ARENAS. JULIAN CLARY. ZITA WEELIUS. TERENCE DAVIES. RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER. PAUL MORRISSEY. ATOM EGOYAN. TODD VEROW. TRISTRAM CAREY. FRENCH AND SAUNDERS. PATRICIA ROZEMA. JOHN WATERS. SANDRA BERNHARD. ROBERT PACITTI. FRANCO B. STARS OF THE LID. BOB FLANNAGAN. FORCED ENTERTAINMENT. TIM ETCHELLS. DIRK BOGARDE. TONY AYRES. HIDEOUS ROADS. SERGEI EISENSTEIN. TILDA SWINTON. MONIKA TREUT. SUSAN STREITFELD. THROBBING GRISTLE. YOKO ONO. RICARDO FERRIERO. PENNY ARCADE. ANNIE SPRINKLE. LE TIGRE. GERTRUDE STEIN. ERIC SATIE. BEETHOVEN & MOZART. JAYE HAYES. RICHARD GLATZER. SALLY POTTER. GUILLERMO GÓMEZ-PENA. THE SYDNEY FRONT. NIGEL KELLAWAY. CHRISTOPHER RYAN. CLARE GRANT. BENJANMIN SMOKE. SAINT ETIENNE. CAROLINE DAISH. INGRID VOORENDT. MARTIN POTTER. FANNY JACOBSON. DANIEL CLARKE. SHARI HATT. HELEN PARIS. LESLIE HILL. BRIAN FUATA. MEGAN SPENCER. S E BARNET. DAVID PHILLIPS. ROSA VON PRAUNHEIM. ANTONIN ARTAUD. KAREN FINLEY. GREGG ARAKI. SLAVA TSUKERMAN. TIM MILLER. ISAAC JULIEN. DENYS ARCAND. LUCHINO VISCONTI. HANIF KUREISHI. COIL. TOM ELLARD. RIVER PHOENIX. QUENTIN CRISP. KATHY ACKER. WILLIAM BURROUGHS. LAWRENCE JOHNSTON. JUDY HORACEK. STEPHEN FREARS. ROSE TROCHE. FRUMPUS. JULIE VULCAN. KEN RUSSELL. ROBERT LEPAGE. FRANK FORD. ADAM HORTON. HAL HARTLEY. STEREOLAB. PRAM. ROSIE. VIRGINIA WOOLF. EMILY WOOF. NAYLAND BLAKE. DIAMANDA GALAS. BARBARA KRUGER. THE GUERRILLA GIRLS. MIRANDA JULY. NEIL BARTLETT. AMY SCHOLDER. IRA SILVERBERG. GROVE PRESS. SERPENT’S TAIL PRESS. STEPHEN BEACHY. GERARD (AKA CAESAR). THE WAKE. P P HARTNETT. PULP BOOKS. HUBERT FICHTE. YUKIO MISHIMA. LINDA MARIE WALKER. DEBORAH LEVY. ANNE CARSON. MARGUERITE DURAS. PAT CADIGAN. STEPHIN MERRITT. THE ALIMINUM GROUP. P J HARVEY. VINCENT GIARRUSSO. PET SHOP BOYS. DAVID SYLVIAN. FRANK BLACK AND THE PIXIES. BILLY MACKENZIE. ALYSON ‘DAISY’ BROWN. IRENA DANGOV. ASTRID PILL. ZOË BARRY. GAELLE MELLIS. KERRIN ROWLANDS. STEPHEN NOONAN. HANNAH MACDOUGALL. MATTHEW HINTZ. SEVERED HEADS. JON DALE. ROMEO CASTELUCCI. ALICIA TALBOT. HOOD. IAN MASTERS. KEVIN BLECHDOM. LAWRENCE ENGLISH. PEACHES. ARTIFICIAL. NIC TOUPEE. STEVE PHILLIPS. HARRY WHIZKID. HOLLY HUGHES. GIGI OTALVARO-HORMILLOSA. MARGARET CHO. EVERETT LEWIS. BARBARA HAMMER. SARAH WATERS. LEIGH BOWERY. CHARLES ATLAS. RICHARD WATTS. TOM LANARCH JONES. OSCAR WILDE. STEVEN MORRISSEY. THE SMITHS. CASS MCCOMBS. DAVID MCCOMB AND THE TRIFFIDS. GRANT MACLENNAN. ROBERT FORSTER. JUDY MCGEE. STEPHEN FRY. NATASHA KHAN. TONY KUSHNER. JEM COHEN. CARMELITA TROPICANA. VAGINAL CREME DAVIS. PEDRO ALMODOVAR. GUY BLACKMAN. DYLAN MORAN. RUFUS & MARTHA. ANTONY AND THE JOHNSTONS. SUFJAN STEVENS. UNREASONABLE ADULTS.

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Music by Panoptique Electrical.
Composed and performed by Jason Sweeney.