-“Concrete utopias can also be daydreamlike, but they are the hopes of a collective, an emergent group, or even the solitary oddball who is the one who dreams for many." - José Esteban Muñoz

The night club has displaced the church as a place to build community and transport the body. Hypnotic music, reverberating structures, ritualized consumption, and a communion of like-minded individuals all conspire to displace us from the ordinary and align us with the metaphysical. Let Us Build a City is an immersive exploration of sound, drawing, and sculpture that culminates my research into nightclub culture, queer futurity, and sacred spaces, grounded by my experience as a patron and employee of gay nightclubs. Equal parts architectural and acoustical, Let Us Build a City generates rhythms through both found and synthesized sound integrated into a system of channels that flow through scaffolded structures. Tensions arise as the body moves through these structures: exaltation, contemplation; rest, exertion; anxiety, serenity. It is a network of sensations that blurs the line between dance music and liturgical atmosphere, a city of the future built as a refuge from the crush of urbanism.