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SURF NAZIS MUST DIE!
Curated by Francis Summers
Fri 11 Oct - Sun 3 Nov 2002
In October Hoxton Distillery was proud to play host to
Taking its title from Peter George’s cult film of the same
name, this exhibition is organised around chaotic expressions of
sub-cultural and deviant resistance. A show of inter-disciplinary
obsession and moribund extremes, the artists in this show are united
by their uniquely irreverent approaches towards the organising principles
of the mainstream media.
Featured in the show are six artists whose work varies in range
from painting to performance, and from video to experimental electronica.
The artists in the show are:
Jennifer Allen*, whose work explores
the aspirational, the uncomfortable and the erotic. Making videos
that propose avant-garde disco dancing as a mutant form of expression,
her work is a liquidisation of gender, pop culture and race.
Kevin Blechdom is one half of the much
feted and Ars Electronica prize winning duo Blectum from Blechdom
whose music is a brand of brain-splitting electronica combined with
schizophrenically comical skits. Based in Tallahassee, Florida,
her project encompasses perverted psycho-sexuality and a sense of
exaggerated absurdity, themes that ooze through in her lyrics, cartoons
and music.
Remote Control are a duo of fashion
designers, Debbie Wale and Lori Allen, who are based in London and
New York. Producing media-busting fashion, they aim to counter-act
brainwashing through brandishing their own resistant politics, using
the style of customisation, ‘zine culture and underground cartoons.
Theo Cowley* is an artist who interacts
with the totality of contemporary social design. Taking an idea
of fictional urban spiritualism and fusing this with tropes from
the life-style industry, he produces an apocryphal stream of consciousness
with graphic intensity, using design against design.
Andrew King* is a death folk archivist
and modern-day visionary. Combing rural Britain for folk songs that
have been handed down by word of mouth through generations, his
project is an apparition of the pastoral tradition at its most rich
and suicidal.
Francis Summers is an artist who makes videos that act as
a form of plunderphonic dissonance. Using scrambling strategies
that verge on nihilistic psychedelia, he makes work that produces
a kind of cultural-feedback-machine.
*These artists are scheduled to perform on the opening night as
well as contributing work to the exhibition.
For more information contact Francis Summers on 020 8788 3286 /
francis@surfnazi.fsnet.co.uk
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