June 2021
Disco Night to Enhance the Day
Disco Night To Enhance The Day is part of The Beautiful Future collaboration between Nick Bonner of Koryo Studio, Dominic Johnson-Hill of Plastered 8, and a group of North Korean artists living in North Korea’s capital Pyongyang.
Title: DISCO NIGHT TO ENHANCE THE DAY 迪厅之夜，美好的一天
Artist: Nicholas Bonner/Dominic Johnson Hill with DPRK artist
Year: September 2008
Medium: Gouache on paper
Dimensions: 73.5 x 103 cm
Disco Night to Enhance the Day
Maybe not so much in the DPRK. Discos do not happen in North Korea. Rather, dancing is traditional and reserved. Although karaoke bars do exist!
This is therefore an artist’s impression of what they imagine a ‘disco’ to be. To throw your moves. Whether Russian style ‘gopak’ or awkward ‘Dad dancing’…
The disco floor is a tapestry of what appears to be colored linoleum tiles as opposed to a light floor.
