Trying to remember who made the big band acid jazz piece.
Can’t remember why.
Remember now. About growing up with very clear and diverse subcultures and how these seem to have now eroded and evolved into the mass commercialisation of ‘lifestyle’?
[get references]
- https://gravityglobal.com/news/the-death-of-subculture-part-1/
- Subculture’s Not Dead! Checking the Pulse of Subculture Studies through a Review of ‘Subcultures, Popular Music and Political Change’ and ‘Youth Cultures and Subcultures: Australian Perspectives’ — https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1103308818761271
- Subcultures Today and Tomorrow Webinar — https://www.arts.ac.uk/subjects/fashion-communication/short-courses/fashion-history-and-culture/subcultures-today-and-tomorrow-webinar-csm
This occurred when thinking of the engineered landscape (ArtPlay) piece/scan, which I am working with in the UE5 tests. The original capture includes artefacts of showroom windows (interiors / home furnishing). These artefacts were removed (the scan cleaned up) so just the contained, planted area exists, but on reflection the additional context provided by the luminous marketing brings additional meaning to the planting. This is not exactly what I am searching for in this piece / this series, however, the presence is more topical and connected to other scans featuring more obvious socio-political-environmental commentary such as the covid test centre pieces.
Back to big band acid jazz, now remember it’s big band acid house, which is probably why I’ve spent a fair amount of time this morning (~30 mins?) unsuccessfully remembering / searching who made this. [Note physical ‘library’ which acts as a tangible extension to memory, is split between locations with most of the relevant books being in the UK].
Remember now it was Jeremey Deller…
Jeremy Deller, The History of the World, 1997
“I drew this diagram about the social, political and musical connections between house music and brass bands – it shows a thought process in action. It was also about Britain and British history in the twentieth century and how the country had changed from being industrial to post-industrial. It was the visual justification for Acid Brass. Without this diagram, the musical project Acid Brass would not have a conceptual backbone.”
http://www.jeremydeller.org/TheHistoryOfTheWorld/TheHistoryOfTheWorld.php
The name / memory loss led to reading a good article from 2015 on Mark Leckey, whose work has similar threads running through it.
- How Mark Leckey became the artist of the YouTube generation, Charlotte Higgins, 2015.
[remember been in ‘isolation’ for 15 years]
Came across a piece he made ‘Affect Bridge Age Regression’, 2017–19, which includes a motorway bridge.
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/leckey-affect-bridge-age-regression-t15529
I am drawn towards the visual and physical language of highways and civil engineering, and would like to work with physical items.
Aesthetically connected with ‘highway engineering’, although I suspect this is more a reference to the late 80’s early 90’s significance of motorways within the rave scene.
Crash Barrier, 2013
(The M4 is becoming a smart motorway), 2021
(The M4 is becoming a smart motorway), 2021
(The M4 is becoming a smart motorway), 2021
Regarding Leckey and the thought that most subject matter and mediums have been covered already, I remind myself that what I am exploring in the interactive (games) space is quite relevant to today’s generation. I then remember reading about (Darren almonds?) second life house from 10+ years ago? Can’t remember where I saw this though [~11:00]…
[~13:00] Remember now it was in an e-flux article that Gia referenced on her site, it was actually Chris Marker, not Darren Almond (or Darren almonds as in the original autocorrected spelling):
In Defense of the Poor Image, Hito Steyerl, e-flux journal, 2009
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/10/61362/in-defense-of-the-poor-image/
Also:
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1143-chris-marker-s-second-life
https://harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/the-second-life-of-chris-marker
https://chrismarker.org/the-second-life-of-chris-marker/
Back to memory and questions/concerns over how this functions. Is this something to finally explore and respond to more systematically from a medical and conceptual perspective?