Is Claptone’s Clubnight Masquerade a Dark Sign of the Time or just Innocent Play?
Observations from a clubbing night in Ibiza
Clubbing theme nights in Ibiza are full of hidden, symbolic messages.
Take the famous Manumission nights in the Ku. An exuberant display of hedonist pleasure. During the first years, beautiful people had sex on stage.
The word Manumission is Latin for release from slavery. Fertility symbols from the first people setting food in Ibiza, the Phoenicians, were used on stage.
Ibiza is the island of freedom.
Here are some observations from DJ Claptone’s Masquerade theme club night in famous Pacha.
Last night, I found myself dancing amidst thousands of clubbers, of which most had strapped a golden mask around their head.
‘Why would a club night use a symbol from one of humanity's darkest periods? The black plague,’ I wondered. Another voice in my head replied: “Be happy it isn’t the blue face cloths that plagued us for two years.”
A morbid Covid echo? Subliminal new normal programming? A sign of a masked time?
Or art? A playful attempt to understand undercurrents in our changing world and express them?