The use and the recycling of archival materials are crucial for writing the hi-stories of music scenes and subcultures, which have generally been oral and conveyed by DIY visual media documenting their activities. Contemporary artists use this type of archives to explore how found footage strategies and forms can define wider social and cultural discourses. The paper deals with three video and digital works centered on punk/post-punk and EDM scenes and subcultures that are compared with a specific audiovisual form: "Rock My Religion" (Dan Graham, 1983-84) with the video-essay; "Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore" (Mark Leckey, 1999) with the videoclip; "Everybody In The Place: An Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992" (Jeremy Deller, 2018) with the documentary. Punk/post-punk and EDM’s representations reveal deep meanings on society concerning such themes as the collective rituality, the significance of the bodies, the relations with religion and other political, social, and cultural instances. The three works are analyzed following the three methodologies on the use of found footage outlined by William Wees (1993): compilation, collage, and appropriation. Then, the outcomes of such analyses are discussed with reference to Fredric Jameson’s framework on Postmodern culture and the idea of «the loss of historicity» (1981, 1983, 1984-1991, 2005).

Dan Graham, Mark Leckey e Jeremy Deller : Pratiche artistiche di riappropriazione tra punk, EDM e postmodernità / M.T. Soldani. - In: IMAGO. - ISSN 2038-5536. - 12:24(2021), pp. 155-168. [10.1400/287980]

Dan Graham, Mark Leckey e Jeremy Deller : Pratiche artistiche di riappropriazione tra punk, EDM e postmodernità

M.T. Soldani
2021

Abstract

The use and the recycling of archival materials are crucial for writing the hi-stories of music scenes and subcultures, which have generally been oral and conveyed by DIY visual media documenting their activities. Contemporary artists use this type of archives to explore how found footage strategies and forms can define wider social and cultural discourses. The paper deals with three video and digital works centered on punk/post-punk and EDM scenes and subcultures that are compared with a specific audiovisual form: "Rock My Religion" (Dan Graham, 1983-84) with the video-essay; "Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore" (Mark Leckey, 1999) with the videoclip; "Everybody In The Place: An Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992" (Jeremy Deller, 2018) with the documentary. Punk/post-punk and EDM’s representations reveal deep meanings on society concerning such themes as the collective rituality, the significance of the bodies, the relations with religion and other political, social, and cultural instances. The three works are analyzed following the three methodologies on the use of found footage outlined by William Wees (1993): compilation, collage, and appropriation. Then, the outcomes of such analyses are discussed with reference to Fredric Jameson’s framework on Postmodern culture and the idea of «the loss of historicity» (1981, 1983, 1984-1991, 2005).
contemporary visual arts; video art; documentation; found footage; video-essay; videoclip; music video; documentary; DIY media; music scenes; subcultures; postmodernism; punk; post-punk; EDM
Settore L-ART/06 - Cinema, Fotografia e Televisione
Settore PEMM-01/B - Cinema, fotografia, radio, televisione e media digitali
2021
Article (author)
File in questo prodotto:
File Dimensione Formato  
MTSoldani_Imago_24_2021.pdf

accesso riservato

Tipologia: Publisher's version/PDF
Dimensione 562.93 kB
Formato Adobe PDF
562.93 kB Adobe PDF   Visualizza/Apri   Richiedi una copia
Pubblicazioni consigliate

I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.

Utilizza questo identificativo per citare o creare un link a questo documento: https://hdl.handle.net/2434/1096117
Citazioni
  • ???jsp.display-item.citation.pmc??? ND
  • Scopus ND
  • ???jsp.display-item.citation.isi??? ND
social impact