Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard - Shows


	Precious Little Overtake The Weasel History Will Repeat Itself Meltdown

	Silent Sound Jerwood Space Kate MacGarry Anyone else isn't you Everybody else is wrong File under Sacred Music A Rock 'N' Roll Suicide The Kids are Alright The Smiths is dead Doing it for the kids The World Won't Listen

	Neo-Con Street: behind the cliche Switch on the Power! Music For People Surfing the Surface Rhythm-a-Ning, Derry Rhythm-a-Ning, Dublin Biennale! Viper Basel Yugoslav Biennial Far Away So Close This Much is Certain Artists Films About Music Culture Charade Bootleg We're Coming To Take You Away, Hurrah!! Shooting Live Artists Modern Love in London Modern Love in Düsseldorf Century City Kill Yr Idols Host Double Life Victoria New Contemporaries Yerself is Steam The Hanging Picnic

Installation view of Fucked up lover and Love fucks you up detail

In November 2001 Modern Love, an ambitious exhibition curated by Dan Howard-Birt, was presented in London at VTO Gallery following Modern Love in Dusseldorf at the hobbypopMUSEUM. The exihibition featured eighteen young artists from London, including the special guests, hobbypop.

Installation view Love fucks you up detail

For Modern Love in Dusseldorf and London, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard produced two new pieces of work, Fucked up lover (DVD, black and white, 30 minutes) and Love fucks you up (8 wall based works consisting of large-scale reproductions of inlay cards from compilation cassettes). Both are on-going projects. For the work the artists invited a selection of their friends and associates to compile cassettes for their lovers. Each participant was then asked to talk, in front of a video camera, about their tape, the music on it and the person it was made for.

Installation view Fucked up lover

Dan Howard-Birt gathered a group of artists for Modern Love in Dusseldorf and London who share a vision of the continuing significance of the romantic. Other artists featured in the show include:

Maria Chen Pasqual, Sophie Brown, Paul Housley, Alex Morrison, Chris Owen, Matthew Sawyer, Saron Hughes, Luke Gottlier, Matt Calderwood, Leigh Curtis, Emily-Jo Sargent, Max Hymes, Giles Round, Roger Hiorns, Catharina Barich, Peter Harris and Dan Howard-Birt.

Installation view of Modern Love in London

" ...the poetic potential of each list of lucid titles is brought to the fore. Should the viewer be familiar with a particular song, he or she, at best, can still only imagine its significance to the compiler and receiver of the tape in the light of their own experience. Instead the texts become romantically aspirational lyrical distillations occasionally punctuated by musically associative points of reference."

Dan Howard-Birt, Love Letter, Love Letter

Love Letter, Love Letter is an essay by Dan Howard-Birt, the curator of Modern Love in Dusseldorf and London about Fucked up lover and Love fucks you up.

Modern Love invitation card

Modern Love in London
VTO Gallery
96 Teesdale Street
London E2 6PU

30 November - 16 December 2001

For more information, visit the exhibition web site:
www.anyothername.co.uk/modernlove/

See also the Modern Love section of the VTO Gallery web site:
www.vtogallery.com

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Installation view of Modern Love in London