Exhibitions  /  2025
The Disco State
2025

The Disco State

80WSE, New York
November 5 – 8, 2025
Immersive multimedia installation and underwater dance party

Statement

Breaking news: Life On Land Is Over! But don’t panic: beneath the rising seas, there is a future for you. It’s groovier, wetter, and infinitely more fun.

Welcome to The Disco State (trademark pending), the premier underwater disco paradise. Crack a Scuba Brewba, the official beverage of the apocalypse. Down here, gravity’s gone, your moves are smoother, and nobody cares where you came from as long as you can shake it.

Discovered by Jacques Cousteau, perfected by you. Don’t trip on tentacles, and remember: stay too long, and you might just forget what “up” (or anything) felt like.

Works in the exhibition

Digital video: the full DJ set

DJ Bubblz performing in a snorkel mask in front of the projected lyrics

Live performance on opening night

DJ Bubblz

Digital video and live performance · HD video, 54 min 42 s; DJ set performed on opening night, November 5, 2025 · Collaborator: Mia Tuccillo

Disco Ball

Disco Ball

Foam ball, California coast abalone shell, polyurethane gloss · 9.6 in. diameter · Collaborator: Mia Tuccillo

Club Toilet
Club bathroom walls covered in visitor graffiti and Scuba Brewba stickers
Corner of the club bathroom walls, floor to ceiling graffiti

Club Toilet

Crown Heights sidewalk toilet, acrylic paint, glitter, dehydrated salt water, conch shell, oyster shells, Home Depot sponge, LED lights, nitrogen crystals · 30 × 20 × 30 in. · Collaborator: Mia Tuccillo

Bottom row: The club bathroom walls, written on by visitors during the exhibition.

Opening night · Nov 5, 2025
Dance Floor
Close-up of the holographic tiles, purple circle path and projected text

Dance Floor

Cardboard, holographic sticker paper, borax slime, adhesive, polyurethane gloss, HD video · 82 × 118 in., 4 min 7 s · Collaborator: Mia Tuccillo

Bottom row: detail of the holographic tiles under the projection.

Two designs: Underwater Boogie Lager and Scuba Brewba Ale

At the exhibition: the bar’s stock of Scuba Brewbas on ice

Scuba Brewba bottles and cans in an ice bucket at The Disco State

Advertising campaign

Scuba Brewba ad: No oxygen? No problem.
Scuba Brewba poster: Life moved underwater. So did beer.
Scuba Brewba poster: End of the world? Crack a Brewba.
Scuba Brewba poster: Earth’s on fire. Brewbas stay cold.

The posters in the gallery window, seen from Washington Square Park

80WSE gallery facade from Washington Square Park with Scuba Brewba posters in the window
Close view of the gallery window with two columns of Scuba Brewba posters
Looking up at the gallery window: Scuba Brewba posters and the emergency announcement screen

Scuba Brewba

Fictional beer brand: bottle and can designs, printed labels, large-format prints on plotter paper, beer bottles · Posters 23 × 30 in. and 50 × 23 in. · Collaborator: Christopher Chan, Mia Tuccillo

At the entrance: the horseshoe crab and its video double greet visitors (“Expensive cover, hot people get in free”)

The Bouncer: horseshoe crab on the wall beside a vertical screen, next to The Disco State title

Installation views

The Bouncer under the exit sign, full-length figure on screen
Side view of The Bouncer with the Scuba Brewba posters beyond
View from the gallery entrance past The Bouncer toward the dance floor and disco ball

The Bouncer

Horseshoe crab, polyurethane gloss, digital video, nitrogen crystals under microscope · 10 × 23 in., 4K video, 2 min 18 s · Collaborator: Mia Tuccillo, Susana Tuccillo, Gabriel Brosius

Wall of Fame: cyanotype portraits of the club’s imagined regulars

Wall of Fame

Cyanotype photography developed under UV light, salt water

Installation views