Sex Pistols - April 1976: The Art of PT Madden.
Citation Summary:
Fallows, C. (2016), Sex Pistols - April 1976: The Art of PTMADDEN, curated exhibition, Wilkinson Gallery, London. (13/04/16 - 13/06/16; and Fallows, C. & Savage, J. (2018), 1966 | 1976 SEX BEATLES, curated exhibition, Exhibition Research Lab, Liverpool School of Art and Design, Liverpool John Moores University. In collaboration with Wall, A. BBC Arena (22/03/18 - 26/04/18).
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Liverpool John Moores University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32CF3
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Wilkinson Gallery, London
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of first exhibition
- April
- Year of first exhibition
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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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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0
- 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
- Ongoing research examining and re-positioning the radical thought and artistic practice of Punk 1976-1978 resulted in Prof. Fallows discovering a unique twenty-six piece photographic artwork by PTMadden featuring Sex Pistols live on stage at the Nashville Rooms, London, 3 April 1976. ‘Sex Pistols - April 1976: The Art of PTMadden’ (13/04/16-13/06/16) presented and contextualised all twenty-six surviving photographs, restored and produced as a unified artwork for the first time. The photographs were curated with a series of psycho-geographic map-works by Madden. Through a series of in-depth interviews with PTMadden, Prof. Fallows uncovered Madden’s concept and technique of taking a stage-framed photograph every thirty seconds to capture an entire early Sex Pistols performance. Madden kept the negatives under his bed for almost 40 years. The exhibition articulated a rejection of the conventions and clichés of contemporary rock photography and placed the works in the context of Ed Ruscha’s Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1963), Richard Long’s photographs of straight-line walks, and Bernd and Hilla Becher's systematic series of works. Sex Pistols - April 1976: The Art of PTMadden was curated as both a unique photographic document and an artistic equivalent of a live performance by Sex Pistols in April 1976. Uniquely, the exhibition presented the surviving roll of film as the artwork - not any individual shot. A contextual essay by Prof. Fallows drawing upon his detailed interviews with PTMadden was published by Wilkinson gallery to coincide with the exhibition. Prof. Fallows also curated the twenty-six photographs as limited edition box-set (20). The exhibition received national/international press coverage including features in the Guardian by Savage, J. (06/04/16) and Wallpaper* magazine by Dillon, B. (May 2016). Prof. Fallows curated a further version of the work in 1966 | 1976 SEX BEATLES (with Savage, J.), Exhibition Research Lab, LJMU in collaboration with BBC Arena (22/03/18-26/04/18).
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- Non-English
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