2023-07-05 23:22:41
Time.news “It’s back”
Organizers, DJs, establishment managers, night owls, observers… Every Wednesday, “Libé” gives voice to those who live for and through the night. Today, the graphic designer of various kinky parties (Monarch; Master squat).
Red, blue or green on a black background and naked bodies in suggestive poses. The videos, banners and other VJing of Nicolas Poliautre, alias madns, are at the crossroads of rave and fetish aesthetics. Nothing out of the ordinary: the 25-year-old graphic designer, a graduate of an art school in graphic design, has been designing the very sexual visuals for various kinky (or sex-positive) parties in Paris (Monarch and Master Squat) for two years, organized in places long kept secret in advance. A livelihood, which allows him to combine “design and party” while living from this “double passion”. “My role is to bring sensuality while qualifying the subject, to do something chic but not trashy, rather dark chic, explains this regular at techno evenings, who performs live VJing performances. And as the key word was lust, so I was inspired by Renaissance paintings.
Introduced as a teenager to the world at night during a free party in the forest in the Manche, then in the semi-legal Parisian parties (in the Bois de Vincennes, for example), this follower of warehouses (electronic parties often clandestine and outside the frameworks clubs) has since converted to “more institutionalized” techno club nights. His base the rest of the time: the Liebe, a night bar run by the same owners as the Monarch, rue du Faubourg Montmartre (9th arrondissement), for its musical programming which he considers qualitative.
Your definition of night
“The night is above all a space for unconstrained creation. In all spheres of the party, there is both a strong creative expression and a notion of freedom. In terms of graphics, for example, I can experiment with shapes for parties that I wouldn’t allow myself elsewhere. It’s endless. And if you want to dress more eccentrically, you can do it at night.”
your fuel
“Beer. Out of ten o’clock in the evening, there aren’t twenty minutes when I don’t have a beer in my hands, it quenches your thirst without being twisted after two hours. But above all, I would say the sound. If I’m not convinced by what I hear, I get bored and I don’t hold on. And even if the evening is good. I have to be kept alert by the music.”
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your object
“Earplugs are super important! As far as I am concerned, I have small ear problems, in particular tinnitus, so I always have some on me. I always encourage taking it in the evening, where you don’t see enough of it and that concerns me. When you listen to music in a club, at a certain sound level, in the long run, it can become disabling. You can also buy them for around twenty euros, more efficient than those made of foam, which filter high and low frequencies. It’s not a wasteful purchase.”
your place
“I’m not too club. I prefer large spaces, like hangars, with a lot of people, it stimulates me a little more. A warehouse has more power, makes you want to party and it’s more liberating than dancing in a club. But I’m going to contradict myself: I was hanging out a lot at Concrete at the time, mainly for their programming. It was the best club in Paris and today, we find a bit of this warehouse atmosphere at Carbone [club techno underground du Xe arrondissement ouvert l’an dernier, ndlr]. The gauge is small, everything is concrete, with a raw appearance and we find insiders there, for example at the Antiverse evenings of Brice Coudert [l’ex-directeur de Concrete].»
your next weekend
“I will go to the Master Squat, a fetish and BDSM evening for which I do the visuals, which aims to unite the kinky population, people from all walks of life and of all ages. But I was also told about a trance festival in the South, like babos with bolas. It’s not my universe and as I’m curious, I’m tempted too.
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