All photos by authors.
Olly de Salis and his crowd are a pack of radical teens aspiring to reinvent the Wellington party scene. On a bone-cold Saturday night in the Wellington's usually soulless shirt-and-tie district, they all put on another one of their 121 underground raves, which blur the line between art and party. The deserted corporate location was a deliberate fuck you to the city's party hub, Courtney Place.DJs, VJs, graffiti artists, installation conceptualists, photographers, videographers, and performance artists packed into an abandoned office on Plimmer Steps. Why such a diverse crowd? Because, like Olly says, we "have tiny attention spans."
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"A show with a sound system and a DJ is weak, too plain, too simple, too easy to overlook," he told VICE. "You ask a few homies who do cool art to do some work and it snowballs."Loads of sweat was shed and litres of water was drunk. We went along and took these photos.
Tim Caldwell and Ian Matthews
Kyle Gerrie
Bordie (BDR)