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5/10/2006

The Secret Public

Kunstverein Munchen, Munich

The last days of the British Underground 1978-1988. The exhibition is internationally the first attempt to critically re-evaluate Britain's recent past, while also presenting the lasting impact that artists and cultural producers of this time have on the cultural and political fabric of Britain today. The show examines an art and creativity which was deeply concerned with gender, sexuality and the performative self - the body as a performance and spectacle.


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The Last Days of the British Underground 1978-88

Charles Atlas, Bodymap, Leigh Bowery, Victor Burgin, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Michael Clark, Duvet Brothers, Peter Doig, Gorilla Tapes, Brian Eno, Cerith Wyn Evans, Gilbert and George, Richard Hamilton, Derek Jarman, Isaac Julien, Tina Keane, Sandra Lahire, Linder, Stuart Marshall & Neil Bartlett, John Maybury, Neo- Naturists, Julian Opie, Jon Savage, Peter Saville, Mark E. Smith, Wolfgang Tillmans, Trojan, Stephen Willats and others.

The exhibition The secret public. The last days of the British Underground 1978-1988 is internationally the first attempt to critically re-evaluate Britain’s recent past, while also presenting the lasting impact that artists and cultural producers of this time have on the cultural and political fabric of Britain today.

Disquieting, playful and intensely urban, at times aggressively nihilistic or steeped in confrontational sexuality, a dark flowering of creativity occurred in the UK between 1978 and 1988 which was as much an extension of subcultural lifestyle as it was a consequence of art making in the traditional sense. Occurring at a time of lowering political, economic and social change, this was a flourishing of creativity that seemed to take shape in a covert form outside the institutional canon of the time - creating its own underground network of activities, events, economies and celebrities. As a generational grouping of artists and personalities, it is well described by the title of a fanzine published in Manchester in 1978: The secret public.

As an exhibition, The secret public examines an art and creativity which was deeply concerned with gender, sexuality and the performative self - the body as a performance and spectacle. In this it also engaged with fashion, dance, performance, film, video and music. As such it surveys perhaps the last period in British culture before the rise of the consumer environment and the flattening of sub-cultural manifestations and creative industries into a single, pasteurised range of commodified styles.

The Secret Public was conceived by Kunstverein Munchen and is co- curated by British author and critic Michael Bracewell. Curator for Film/Video is Ian White (Adjunct Film Curator, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London).

Talks programme:

Saturday 07. Oct, 7pm: Linder & Peter Saville in conversation with Michael Bracewell

Tuesday Talks:

17. Oct, 8pm: Blumenbar Book Release Party

24. Oct, 7pm: Florian Wust presents: Who is saying that concrete does not burn, have you tried it? West-Berlin 1980s.

31. Oct, 7pm: Filmscreening: Bred and Born, M.P. Leece & J. Davis, 1983 Handsworth Songs, J. Akomfrah & Black Audio Film Collective, 1986

07. Nov, 7pm: Filmscreening: Plutonium Blonde, Sandra Lahire, 1986 Carry Greenham Home, Beeba Kidron, 1983

14. Nov, 7pm: Filmscreening: Bright Eyes, Stuart Marshall, 1984

21. Nov, 7pm: Filmscreening: Hail the New Puritan, Charles Atlas, 1985

The Secret Public is supported by: Allude; British Council, Berlin; The Federal German Cultural Foundation; The Henry Moore Foundation.

Kunstverein Munchen
Galeriestrasse 4 - Munchen

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