>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 07:57:35 EDT >Subject: Mobile Disco, Dundee > >Common Culture - Mobile Disco, Dundee > >VRC Centrespace, Dundee Contemporary Arts >25th 28th September 2002 >Wed-Fri 10.30-5.30pm, Sat 12.30-5.30 >Your are invited to the opening 6-8pm, Tuesday 24th September > > >Common Culture present >a mobile discoteque and disc jockey >behind closed doors >four hours duration > >"Panic in the streets of Carlisle, >Dublin, Dundee, Humberside..." > >There is a prevailing respect and squeamish awe for performance art and other >forms of culture that test the bounds of one persons human endurance. Common >Culture pay tribute to this quest, by collaborating with a Dundee mobile disc >jockey who will be locked in the VRC Centrespace at Dundee Contemporary Arts >for four hours. He will endure his own performance unaccompanied by drunken >dancers or even an audience, save for those who can hear the muffled version >outside of the room. He will be provided with beer, cigarettes, and will be >let out to go to the toilet. He will still provide his between song chat, and >even ask for requests. The event will be documented and shown afterwards in >the same space. >This is the glamour of the superstar DJ turned on its head, the mechanics >of this service of party fun laid bare. Previous Common Culture work made >in the realm of fast food highlighted the basic transactions on offer and the >relationships between the servers and the served. The temporary, adaptable, >literally mobile nature of this musical service also relates to previous >work with mobile food kiosks and their fugitive, provisional status. The >performance will be truly a lonely heroism. > > > > >Common Culture are David Campbell, Mark Durden and Paul Rooney, and were >founded in Liverpool in 1996. One of their first shows in Britain was at The >Changing Room in Stirling, and since then they have shown at EAST >International in Norwich and had solo shows at The Cornerhouse, Manchester; >Gasworks, London; Pleiades Gallery, Athens; FLAT, New York; and Proposition >Gallery, Belfast. > >The artists would like to thank Big Al Entertainments, Dundee. > > > >VRC Centrespace DCA 152 Nethergate, Dundee. DD1 4DY. >Contact Jane at VRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 01382 348 060 >Or Jeni, DCA Marketing: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 01382 909 229
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