Conference Room Rave: Images From Sound

2026.03.28 Saturday 14:00

Location

Grey Cube, Goethe-Institut China

Guest: PJ/DJ TRUCK

If musical rhythm is the energy that sets bodies in motion, then a party poster is a portal carved into the club's concrete walls. Beyond being a mere preview, it serves as a visual glimpse. In that fleeting glance, passers-by foresee a moment inside the club—tense, strobe-filled, and intimate.

 

This session of "Conference Room Rave" is both an improvised dance and a sharing salon. We have specially invited PJ, one-half of the creative duo MENSLIES, to share how graphic design and club culture intertwine from his dual perspective as a designer and party organizer. Here, music travels from the ears to the eyes, where even the subtlest sonic waves are captured and transformed into imagery. No longer a static surface of paper, the graphic becomes a medium for tremors, where images surge forth from the sound.

 

About the Guest: PJ/DJ TRUCK

One-half of the creative duo MENSLIES. He collaborates with friend Yenk to explore the nexus of graphic design , electronic music and club culture. Since the project’s inception in 2017, the duo has curated various thematic columns, sharing music and synchronized visual creations across social media. By 2019, MENSLIES branched out into visual production, crafting specialized materials for an international roster of electronic music producers and DJs.

MACA Art Center is a non-profit contemporary art institution housed in a standalone building of minimalistic industrial style and futuristic design in Beijing's 798 Art District, a major hub for arts and culture in the city. Through forward-looking and experimental content, MACA aims to enable communication traversing disciplinary boundaries while forging international dialogues grounded in the specificities of a Chinese perspective. Our programmatic scope, which spans exhibitions, research initiatives, pan-performance practices, and alternative communal engagement, signals a commitment to exploring ideas outside established epistemic frameworks. MACA seeks to position itself as a new institutional mode, proposing an alternative coordinate within the topology of Chinese contemporary art. Through art, we address our radically transforming times.