The politics of documentary punk curation

Wallace, R. (2018) The politics of documentary punk curation. Panel Presentation presented to: Curating Resistance: Punk as Archival Method, University of California, Los Angeles, 09-10 February 2018.

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Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Panel Presentation)
Abstract:	From the early days of forming a band, writing lyrics and performing to an audience there has always been ‘politics’ involved in communicating ideas within the punk community. At first the aesthetic construction of punk and later the dogma of the anarcho-punk scene, overshadowed the individual as central to Punk’s ‘be yourself, so long as you look and think like us’. Of course there has always been opposition which shirks the punk orthodoxy of given movements and scenes. Moments which transcend the conformity as punk events evolved into as a predictable cultural format. I want to reclaim this space after forty years of punk curation and documentary activity. Exploring Gramsci’s notion of ‘an inventory of traces’ I seek to explore the politics of documentary punk curation and the activities around the curation of punk and provide a unique 360 degree insight of selected artifacts curated since 1980’s as a combined video-paper, video screenings, exhibition and solo performance. This combined artistic activity as a critique of the seemingly unconnected documentary items which make punk histories. I seek to bring to life the documentary elements that otherwise remain hidden due to the necessary constraints of documentary videomaking and place them within concepts of expanded documentary practice which transcends and permeate borders, boundaries and artistic distinction’s in keeping with the punk philosophy. I intend to perform the curation of gathered documented punk elements from a range of existing projects as a backdrop to a ‘live’ performance of my own ‘curated’ punk experiences and history.
Subjects:	M Music and Books on Music > ML Literature on music > ML3469 Popular music > ML3534 Rock music M Music and Books on Music > ML Literature on music > ML3800 Philosophical and societal aspects of music > ML3916 Social and political aspects of music
Creators:	Wallace, Roy
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes:	Faculties > Faculty of Arts, Science & Technology > Journalism, Media & Performance
Date:	9 February 2018
Date Type:	Publication
Event Title:	Curating Resistance: Punk as Archival Method
Event Dates:	09-10 February 2018
Event Location:	University of California, Los Angeles
Event Type:	Conference
Language:	English
Status:	Published / Disseminated
Related URLs:	Organisation Conference
URI:	http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/9959

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