Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard
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Make me yours again
Kiss my Nauman
Walk With Nauman
Walking Aftter Acconci
Anyone else isn't you
Everybody else is wrong
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Fucked up lover
Made in England
A Japanese Dream
Damaged
The The Jesus & Mary Chain

Chain Smoker, Tap Dancer


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  Silent Sound
A Rock 'N' Roll Suicide
The Kids are Alright
The Smiths is dead
Doing it for the kids
The World Won't Listen

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File under Sacred Music (This much is certain)
Love fucks you up
I love you to the moon and back
Nocturne
Why Can't I Be You
I've built my world around you

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  Liverpool Art Tripper
Change My Life
If I can't change your mind
Sounds like Chris Starling
Never more than this

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Bruce and Holly preparing for the band's dress rehearsal


The authentic Fender amp for Holly's guitar


The band rehearsing for File under Sacred Music


Al and John on the set before the band's dress rehearsal


Holly Golightly on the set


Holly's dog Jack on the set


Al rehearsing for File under Sacred Music


The making of File under Sacred Music

 

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Music for People
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Bootleg
VIPER Basel
Shooting Live Artists
Charade
Faraway So Close

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'Nests, Puke, Frames and baby Faces', Tom McCarthy
'It Beats Bingo!', The Guardian
'Rewind and repeat to fade' - Art Review
'Psychotic Reaction' - Mojo
'Spastic Fantastic' - Sleazenation
'Would a band by any other name...' - i-D Magazine

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Nests, Puke, Frames and Baby Faces: "Two different events, two different event-zones, might have been taking place simultaneously, superimposed over one another in the kind of quantum-logic way the real Cramps, fans of trashy sci-fi, would have loved - but the raw power of Zone One, the Orphic gig-zone, made it impossible to remain safely enclosed within Zone Two, the conceptual art zone." More...

Art Review: "The magnitude and sensitivity of this engagement should not be underestimated. Its terms, beyond any binary, liberal accusations of exploitation, dared to embrace, more extremely than before, the tragic flaw lying between chance and action that makes Forsyth and Pollard's epic structures of re-performance such extraordinary works of art." More...

i-D magazine: "The whole project has an element of predictability that recalls the best of '60s and '70s performance art." More...

Sleazenation: "The most electrifying event the ICA has seen in years" More...

 

 
 
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