First page of the article in The Independent on Sunday

Cream of the crop
Charlotte Edwards

Extract: "Forget the rock critics; you won't find more penetrative insights into music culture than in the work of Goldsmiths graduates Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard. Both 31, and from Manchester and Newcastle respectively, Forsyth and Pollard have been collaborators since 1994, when they met on the BA course at Goldsmiths; their first exhibition was the now legendary Hanging Picnic organised by maverick curator Joshua Compston, for which artists simply strapped their work to the railings of Hoston Sqare. Since then, they've made numerous film, sound and web-based projects and developed a series of live art events at the ICA, inclusing The Smiths is dead (1997), which staged the last ever performance of a Smiths tribute band on the 1oth anniversary of the band's real break-up, and A Rock 'N' Roll Suicide (1998), which recreated David Bowie's last gig as Ziggy Stardust. In 2003, Forsyth and Pollard eturned to the ICA for File under Sacred Music (pictured), a re-enactment of a bootleg video tape that showed the Cramps performing at Napa State Mental Institute in 1978. By insisting on the possibility of repeating the "live" event and reclaiming vanished cultural icons, Forsyth and Pollard's work is, they say, "less about then than now". It certainly feels more real than Stars in their Eyes."

The article also featured:

Pearl C Hsiung, Lali Chetwynd, Daniel Sinsel, Alsion Moffett, Gary MaDonald, Paul Jackson, Varda Caivano, Michael Sailstorfer and Idris Khan

Second page of the article in The Independent on Sunday

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Excerpt: "You won't find more penetrative insights into music culture than in the work of Goldsmiths graduates Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard."

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