ClubTogether: Exploring Conditions for Typographic Experimentation.
Citation Summary:
Mitchell, I. & Quail, J (2018) co-authors, Acid House Blueprint, graphic print, available [online] https://www.wearedorothy.com/collections/shop-all/products/acid-house-love-blueprint-a-history-of-dance-music-and-rave-culture. Exhibited in Good Night: Energy Flash hosted by Hyundai Card, Storage by Hyundai Card, Seoul, South Korea (18/04/2019 - (25/08/2019). Mitchell, I. (2019) curator, ClubTogether exhibition, (with Dorothy) at SEVENSTORE, Liverpool, (17/05/2019 - 28/052019), and ClubTogether.me digital application (co-authors. Mitchell, I. & Quail, J.), available [online] https://clubtogether.me (2019). Article in Someone Somewhere Document Your Culture publication, (editor. Mitchell, I.) Studio Editions, Liverpool, ISBN 978-0-9930113-4-4 (2020)
- Submitting institution
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Liverpool John Moores University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32IM3
- Type
- T - Other
- DOI
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- Location
- [online] http://clubtogether.me; http://wearedorothy.com; SEVENSTORE, Liverpool; Storage by Hyundai Card, Seoul, South Korea.
- Brief description of type
- Screen-printed artwork; website; exhibition featuring interactive installation and digital photographs.
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month
- June
- Year
- 2018
- URL
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http://idontlovesoccer.co.uk/
- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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1 - Contemporary Art Lab
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This research explores infographic visual mapping techniques to communicate complex cultural content and concepts. In this instance, how a history of dance music and rave culture can be visualised in a single conceptual diagram. Rejecting traditional documentary techniques to narrate histories this practice-based research repurposes field theory (Bourdieu, Distinctions, 1984) to map people, places, and events (clubs, DJs, musicians, free parties, sound systems, labels, radio stations) through their spatial, temporal and conceptual relationships. The conceptual diagram reassembles and presents information from extensive research of primary and secondary sources conducted by Mitchell: key texts documenting the history of rave; archival material and the shared personal memories now available on the internet which offer alternatives to the (often) biased creation myths perpetuated by many “official” histories; and interviews and consultation with several of the scene’s experts (Park, G. & Wilson, G.). The research analysed by Mitchell and co-designed with Quail (Dorothy), was informed by Mitchell’s supporting research questioning the enduring relevance and value of infographics as a means to communicate complex cultural and social issues published through the 2CO International Design Conference network; and was advanced through the design of an interactive installation, exhibition and website ClubTogether (2019) which allowed the public to participate with the research and enrich the methodology by sharing memories of rave culture. Principally disseminated through the Acid House Blueprint screen-print bought by over 5000 people, in over 30 countries across 6 continents, stimulating discussion from many of the main living protagonists of the culture; receiving press coverage in Resident Advisor, Wire, BBC 6 Music; and sold at Design Museum’s Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers exhibition. The research has been presented within academia at the 2CO Everyday symposium and to the public in the self-curated ClubTogether exhibitions, at Good Night: Energy Flash exhibition, Seoul, South Korea.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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