Sweat Equity is thrilled to present the debut single of Michigan-born, New York based musician, artist, DJ and meme admin Boyfriend.dick, the razor-sharp, club-ready “Community Guidelines.” Following up a string of performances, gallery shows, and ongoing digital projects, “Community Guidelines” sees him challenging the current censorship policies of social media platforms, particularly towards queer culture and identities. 

After graduating with a degree in Sociology, BFD moved to New York City to pursue a full-time practice, and quickly found fertile ground. He’s performed across New York and released several projects under the name Goon Soul, including Less Than a Year (2016), Holding (2018), and LIKABLE (with VIGILETTI, 2019). As a performance artist he has been featured in works including Young Boy Dancing Group (OCD Chinatown, 2019), Authority Figure (Knockdown Center, 2016), INNIE (Otion Front Residency, 2017), and most recently showcased a solo performance called BOYFRIEND.DICK’S ENDLESS SCROLL (Highland Park, 2020). He has also recently walked in fashion shows for Barragán Spring ’21, NHIL Men’s Fall ’20, and Willie Norris Fall ’19. He has also produced a range of editions works, most notably a limited edition Boyfriend.dick Tarot Deck, which is a modern take on the tradition of tarot which uses the visual language of memes to represent its archetypes

Under his debut single for the Boyfriend.dick project, this relentless creative drive finds new territory without losing any of the artist’s urgency and character. Over the past two years, he grew a personal finsta into a public meme platform with a following of 60k+, adapting a Discord page for queers from around the world to share memes, news, advice, hentai, nudes, and more, creating a vital community platform that found increasing importance during the isolation and emotional fallout of the Covid-19 outbreak. But that same vitality and growth became a target for Instagram’s Community Guidelines bots, and was shut down last year, separating the many followers who had found a space for connection and community. 

“Community Guidelines” responds in appropriately direct fashion, spinning a string of “censored” sexual allusions over a searing club rhythm, a percussive two minute workout that’s equal parts ribald and righteous, asserting a pride and coy subversion of censorship that never loses sight of keeping the bodies moving, 

The release drops March 4th.

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Boyfriend.dick - Community Guidelines

Black American-Queer DJ based in Berlin

https://www.instagram.com/butchqueen.fm?igsh=MTFtcnk4cm96bmRwaQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

I want to eventually create something. I'm sure it'll be crap at first, but I hope to be somewhat halfway-decent in the future. 😉

NGĀSTI is CRDIO + SEZZO 
complaints: ngaaaasti@gmail.com

Brian Fuata "SEINI_TRANSMIT" /  10 Aug '24  @ Sumer Gallery Akl NZ
Walter's Prize/AKL Contemporary Afterparty / 5 Jul '24 Akl NZ
Christchurch Art Gallery / 24 Nov '23, Chch NZ
Mechatok / 23 Sept '23 @ Whammy Bar, NZ
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Previously Sezzo's Soundcloud
Ngāpuhi DJ from Aotearoa NZ via Naarm/Meanjin
sezzosnot@gmail.com

Sezzo Shows:
2023
11 Nov - Door 84 opening @ Meanjin
2 Jun - Happy Kids Archive @ Samoa House Library
22 Apr - SUBZERO, Underground (St Kevin's K road), NZ
18 Mar - Depot Artspace, Light Night, Auckland Arts Fest NZ
11/12 Mar - Hope St Radio stage/House of Mince stage @ Pitch Music and Arts Festival, Naarm, Aus
4 Mar - Club 77 World Pride Takeover (Sydney) w/ Dameela/Halfqueen/Nina Las Vegas
4 Mar - Nasty Party, Factory Theatre, Sydney Mardi Gras, Aus
18 Feb - Auckland Pride, Britomart NZ
22 Jan - Hope St Radio (This Mob), Naarm Aus
8 Jan - Umami Day Party, Naarm/Melbourne

2022
2 Dec - Daddy Daycare, Everybody's Late, Auckland
19 Nov - The Gift (Artspace Aotearoa), No. 7, Auckland
18 June - East St Hall, Auckland
25 Feb - Le Fag, Melbourne CANCELLED/OMICRON
19 Feb - Melbourne Art Fair CANCELLED/OMICRON
23 Jan - Judy Free @ Yot Club, Raglan NZ

2021
23 Dec - BOILER ROOM x UMAMI, Melbourne CANCELLED/OMICRON
30 July - Asahi Sessions w/ Halfqueen B2B @ Longroom, Auckland
16 July - Lei Lei Kung "Home for a Bunny" @ Neo Gracie / Samoa House Library, Akl
18 June - Parasite Gallery, Akl
28 May - "Slow Boil" party for Artspace Aotearoa, Samoa House Fale, Akl

2020
18 Jan - Uniiqu3, Martyn Bootyspoon + more (Sydney)
1 Feb - Ngāti Kangaru (Cement Fondu, Syd)

2019
Jan - MONAFOMA w/ Nidia Minaj, Shyboi
4 Apr - Ngāti Kangaru @ Institute of Modern Art w/ Jamaica Moana + more
26 Apr - Sanctum w/ Toni Yotzi + more (Melb)
9 May - Oscar Key Sung @ Angel Bar (Melb)
10 May - Independent Curating Panel (Verge Gallery, Syd)
18 May - Bahdoesa (Loop, Melb)
31 May - Nightfall (Boney)
7 Jun - Sanctum (Boney)
9 Jun - Hope St Radio (Lazerpig)
9 Jun - One Day Sundays (Penny Black, Melb) 
27 Jun - Sanctum (Section 8)
29 Jun - Hybrid Festival feat. Ngāti Kangaru w/ Fatima Al Qadiri + Aisha Devi + Lotic + DJ Stingray + Omar S + more (Melb)
29 Jun - Precog experimental DJ and reading performance w/ Matka (Emerging Writer's Festival, Melb)
4 July - Justin Shoulder/Corin, Palais de Tokyo (PARIS, FR)
11 July - Fempre$$: Motherlode @ Arts House (Melb)
14 July - Rogue Cuts (Boney)
15 July - 3CR with DJ Abyss
20 July - Unicorns @ Queer Pride (Rubix Warehouse, Melb)
25 July - Zobi Wan (Ferdyduke, Melb)
26 July - Leak Your Own Nudes (Loop, Melb)
9 August - 25th Anniversary of Tasty!
16 August - Filthy w/ Half Queen (Akl, NZ)
2 Aug - Athletica (Syd)
8 Sep - "Home Is Where the Club Is" Panel @ Melbourne Writer's Festival w/ Miss Blanks + more (Kaleide Theatre, RMIT Melb)
20 Sept - Fluxxx Club (Crazy Arms, Melb)
18 Oct - Red Bull Music Festival, 1800DOOF (Le Fag @ Yours&Mine, Melb)w/ Dinamarca + Leonce
2 Nov - Momentum, Next Wave Festival 35th Birthday
4 Nov - Hope St Radio (Rooftop, Melb)
8 Nov - Umami ! (Melb)
9 Nov - Peel St Fest @ Grace Darling
14 Nov - Melbourne Music Week, Opening Night "Swell" (Melb)
21 Nov - Writing and Concepts: Club Theory 2.0 Lecture w/ Sally Olds (Mpavilion, Melb)
21 Nov - Chunky Move Party @ Chapter House (Flinders Lane, Melb)
1 Dec - One Day Sundays (Bourke St Courtyard)
6 Dec - PRECOG: TE-MOANA-NUI-A-KIWA (Firstdraft, Syd)

Selected pre-2019 performances:
Charli XCX presented by VICE - Melbourne
Moor Mother and Black Quantum Futurism - Melbourne
Cher @ Mardi Gras - Sydney
Dark Mofo - Hobart
Monafoma - Hobart
Coolio - Brisbane
Le1f - Brisbane, Sydney and Hobart
Melbourne Music Week - Melbourne Town Hall mainstage, Melbourne

Talks:
UNSW 2020 talk "Friendships" exhibition
https://artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/programs/flesh-meet-dj-sezzo
Institute of Modern Art interview 2020
https://makingart.work/projects/interno/sezzo

Writing:
KILL YOUR DARLINGS “What does is mean to be Māori in Australia” article for Waitangi Day - Feb 2021 
https://www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/what-does-it-mean-to-be-Māori-in-australia/
LIEU JOURNAL “Peace is a bunch of shit” article about the essence of parties - August 2020
https://www.lieujournal.com/Sezzo.php
UN MAGAZINE Issue 13.2 for Un Projects “The Clubbing Ape” article as Kōtare 
https://unprojects.org.au/issue/13-2/
RUNWAY JOURNAL Issue 39: Ocean edition “Te Moana Nui a Kiwa  - Māori in Te Ao Moemoea” article as Kōtare
http://runway.org.au/39oceans
“CLUB THEORY” ARTICLE 2018
Published “Club Theory” in AQNB, philosophical article about clubbing with Sally Olds
https://www.aqnb.com/2018/05/03/club-theory-two-recombinant-texts-on-the-impossible-space-between-theory-experience-by-sally-olds-dj-sezzo/