hannah baer – I need you [in the club]

tranzit.cz and the Lunchmeat Festival have invited writer and psychologist hannah baer to give a live video lecture in Prague on September 25, which will offer a radical perspective on nightlife.

Author, essayist, and meme creator hannah baer will combine psychoanalytic concepts, personal stories, and current events in a live video lecture entitled I need you [in the club], presenting an unexpected view of club parties as places that can transform our relationships with the world and with other people. The event is presented by the initiative for contemporary art tranzit.cz in collaboration with the 2025 Lunchmeat Festival.

The lecture in the Korzo of the Trade Fair Palace will allow the author to present key ideas and concepts from her forthcoming book The Life of the Party to the audience, who will have the opportunity to engage in a dialogue with the creator during a moderated discussion. The host of the lecture and the Q&A will be cultural journalist David Laufer.

The event heralds the release of the Czech edition of hannah baer’s literary debut trans girl suicide museum, translated by Sylva Ficová, which will be published by tranzit.cz in December 2025. The lecture, which will be held in English and the admission is free of charge, subject to the availability of space. 

What do we ask of each other when we go out? Nightlife spaces are often seen as spaces of freedom, disinhibition, and self-expression. Arguably, they are also spaces that require us to attend to each other. What is the quality of this dependency? In what way are spaces that are chaotic, improvisational, and sometimes dissolute also spaces where we need each other more than ever? Drawing on personal narrative, psychoanalytic theory, and current events, we will talk about how party spaces function as spaces of interdependence.