Style & Blitz Club – D. Diederichsen, New Models, Sophie Parkin, John Maybury, D. Ridgers, N. Coates

Описание: 1.) ON STYLE
Diedrich Diederichsen

Around 1980, style suddenly became political: the smallest decisions made all the difference. The cultural scientist Diedrich Diederichsen wrote about this as early as 1983 in Schocker. Styles and Fashions of the Subculture (with Dick Hebdidge, Rowohlt). From 1985 to 1990, he was editor-in-chief of the influential music and pop culture magazine Spex. In his lecture, Diederichsen recapitulates the social role of style and when it ended and why.

2.) ON STYLE
New Models, Diedrich Diederichsen

With their media platform New Models, art critic Caroline Busta and music producer Lil Internet have drawn the consequences of the end of the age of mass media. Together with their community, they follow the latest changes in technology, music, fashion, politics and online culture in podcasts and Discord debates - including the changing meaning of style in today's youth cultures.

3.) ON THE BLITZ CLUB
Sophie Parkin, John Maybury, Derek Ridgers, Nigel Coates

Bored by the nihilism of punk, London squatters and art students dressed up every Tuesday evening between 1979 and 1981 for Blitz Night. Men and women alike outdid themselves in ever new costumes and make-up. Mick Jagger was turned away at the door because he wasn't dressed up. David Bowie chose performers for his music video for Ashes to Ashes here. The Blitz Club was the nucleus of the New Romantic scene and shaped British pop and fashion in the 1980s.

Among its regulars were: artist and writer Sophie Parkin (All Grown Up, Headline Review 1998, Mad Rich and Famous, Picadilly Press 2006, et al.); architect and designer Nigel Coates, who designed the exhibition Everything at Once. Postmodernism, 1967-1992; director John Maybury, who produced hundreds of music videos, including Nothing Compares to You by Sinnead O'Connor; and Derek Ridgers, who captured the Blitz Nights in unforgettable portraits that can be seen in the exhibition. Together they look back on a time when style seemed able to take you anywhere.