In this episode we are sharing a reading by and conversation with Lauren Bakst that took place on the 16th of March 2025 at our space in Brussels.
wetness x surround is a reading of poetic essays and meditations on the submerged materiality of dyke-sex-in-the-city. Spinning centrifugally around research on the Clit Club, wetness x surround skims the ephemera and transmissions of this legendary-to-some 1990s party in New York City where “every single place in the club was for sex.” Through cycles of dissolution and reappearance, by way of withdrawals and refrains, the writing moves in the spirit of the dispossessive impropriety it studies.
Following the reading Chloe Chignell joined Lauren Bakst in conversation.
About Lauren Bakst
Lauren Bakst is a writer, artist, and scholar working in experimental performance and queer studies. She is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania, where her dissertation focuses on the socio-poetics of lesbian sex and erotics. She curates and organizes the School for Temporary Liveness, a para-site for performance and collective study, the next iteration of which will take place at the Kitchen in July 2025. Her writing on the Clit Club is forthcoming in TDR/The Drama Review. She lives in Brooklyn with her dog Riot.
Credits
This podcast was edited by Ros Del Olmo.
The intro music was composed by Ive Vargas - @iv.iv.iv.iv.iv.iv