“DIY or DIE! Handmade Zines, Record Covers and Posters from Punk to Reggae” Exhibition
Milk Gallery
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On display are hundreds of examples of DIY-record cover art: sleeves silkscreened, stenciled, rubber-stamped, and collaged by independent artists from around the globe, with an emphasis on the 70s US/UK/Australian punk scene and the world of Jamaican Dub/Ska/Rocksteady. These records use the 12-inch or 7-inch record format as a slate for DIY creativity in its purest form: choices based on necessity, not on aesthetics. These fine folks could usually not afford to print offset. Also featured in the exhibition are original paste-ups of punk fanzines from the collections of John Ingham, Geoffrey Weiss, and Bruce Griffiths and a selection of hand-printed Australian, British, and American punk rock posters all spanning the years 1976 to 1983. We are showing original stencils from the Crass archive. These stencils are the ground zero of recent urban wall art. They were hand cut and utilized to full effect for the détournement of advertising billboards on the London Underground. They were also the origin for the backs of tens of thousands of punker leather motorcycle jackets.
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Schedule
from July 17, 2014 to August 10, 2014