Image: Matt Stokes Dance Swine Dance, 2011, 16mm silent animation, Duration 02:00 minutes looped (MS0051) Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery
MATT STOKES
DANCE SWINE DANCE
1 February - 29 March 2014
Preview: Friday 31 January, 6-8pm
Matt Stokes' work is concerned with an ongoing inquiry into subcultures and phenomena that provide a sense of collectivity; shaping and influencing peoples lives and identitites.
Winner of the Becks Futures Prize (2006) and more recently shortlisted for the Northern Art Prize (2009) and the Jarman Award (2012), Newcastle-based Stokes has established an international reputation for his lyrical, elegiac films focussing on music subcultures that are part anthropology, part tribute and part collaboration.
With this exhibition the Grundy will show a selection of his most important works alongside additional, previously unseen archival material. Visitors can expect to see a range of historic and contemporary music scenes represented, including Northern Soul, 'cave raves' from the early 90s and American punk from Austin, Texas.
Matt Stokes Dance Swine Dance is accompanied by a public programme of events taking place throughout the exhibition:
Friday 31st 2014
Following the preview of Matt Stokes Dance Swine Dance at the Grundy (6-8pm), Supercollider is hosting a special one-off event, 'Sasha @ Shaboo, Blackpool, June 1990'; a social platform accompanied by a screening of archival footage documenting a local club night held during the summer of 1990 in their gallery space at 59 Cookson Street (8 til late).
Grundy Art Gallery
Queen Street,
Blackpool
FY1 1PU
www.grundyartgallery.com
Email: grundyartgallery@blackpool.gov.uk
Tel: 44(0)1253 478170
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