Untapped Cities is a proud media sponsor of No Longer Empty’s latest exhibition “How Much Do I Owe You?” at the abandoned Bank of Manhattan in Long Island City. We are so excited about this week’s event that we met with Shaun “El C” Leonardo, the artist responsible for the Tiki Tiki Club party happening this Friday night at The Clock Tower in Queens to ask him a few questions about the performance art. As an official part of No Longer Empty, Leonardo was asked to create a performance art piece/event that revolves around the concept of transactions. For Leonardo, whose other work explores the hyper-masculine standards set forth by his own Dominican-Guatemalan heritage, this artistic prompt offers an exciting chance to explore the culture of the Queens mesera or finchera clubs, an increasingly popular nightclub phenomenon in which men pay hired women $2 to dance with them for the length of a song. This transaction, which stems…
Untapped Cities is a proud media sponsor of No Longer Empty’s latest exhibition “How Much Do I Owe You?” at the abandoned Bank of Manhattan in Long Island City. We are so excited about this week’s event that we met with Shaun “El C” Leonardo, the artist responsible for the Tiki Tiki Club party happening this Friday night at The Clock Tower in Queens to ask him a few questions about the performance art. As an official part of No Longer Empty, Leonardo was asked to create a performance art piece/event that revolves around the concept of transactions. For Leonardo, whose other work explores the hyper-masculine standards set forth by his own Dominican-Guatemalan heritage, this artistic prompt offers an exciting chance to explore the culture of the Queens mesera or finchera clubs, an increasingly popular nightclub phenomenon in which men pay hired women $2 to dance with them for the length of a song. This transaction, which stems…