Online exhibition: No Wave
To mark the publication of Between Truth and Fiction: The Films of Vivienne Dick and the artist’s current exhibition at the Crawford Art Gallery Cork, this month’s online exhibition features work from and about the ‘No Wave’ underground movement formed in New York’s Lower East Side in the late 1970s and early 1980s. As a music and art scene, ‘No Wave’ embraced a low-budget, no-aesthetic, stripped down industrial post-punk style often centered around performance and counter-cultural confrontation. Artists/musicians involved with the movement include Lydia Lunch, Suicide, Richard Kern, Amos Poe, Nick Zedd, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, Arto Lindsay, DNA and Thurston Moore/Sonic Youth, some of whom are captured by the films in our selection: Dick’s Guerrillère Talks, Beth B and Scott B’s Letters to Dad and Nick Abraham’s documentary, No Age New York.
Vivienne Dick’s exhibition at the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork took place 18 September – 7 November 2009 and includes a selection of video, 16mm film and Super 8 work. Between Truth and Fiction: The Films of Vivienne Dick, a box set comprising a DVD with five of Dick’s films and a 100-page publication, is now available from the LUX Shop.
All films presented courtesy of the artists.
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Letters to Dad
Beth B & Scott B
USA 1978
16mm
11'42"
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“….the almost lyrical Letters to Dad, is a meditation on authority that superimposes the spectre of Jonestown over the relatively fresh faces of the parapunk art world…the film takes on a musical form- like a 20th-century ballad composed of subliminal behavior cues, advertising testimonials, and the text of the National Enquirer.” J.Hoberman, Village Voice 1978. Courtesy of Beth B and Scott B.
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'This rough-guide to the New York scene of the 1980's is a whirlwind tour of the city's film and video 'underground' that doubles up as a walk-on-the-wild-side of the modern imagination. Mixing interviews with underground alumni Beth B, Nick Zedd, Henry Rollins, Lydia Lunch and Richard Kern alongside clips of their controversial, confrontational works. No Age... junks standard documentary struc [more...]
