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1/2/2010

Sonic Youth

CA2M Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo, Madrid

Curated by Roland Groenenboom in collaboration with Sonic Youth

Ever since it was founded back in 1981, the rock band Sonic Youth has ventured beyond music to explore unknown cultural terrain. Its members (today Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Kim Gordon and Steve Shelley) are not just musicians but also artists and cultural entrepreneurs who have engaged in numerous collaborations with international designers, producers and musicians over these 25 years.

Their output, coupled with the production of diverse creators linked to the band whose works have been compiled for this exhibition, shed light on the evolution of the cultural underground in recent decades, in which exploration of the world of youth, fame, fashion, sexuality and the presence of religion in our society has intermingled with a critical, nonconformist attitude.

The materials on display at the CA2M. Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo starting on the 3rd of February include record designs, brochures, fanzines, posters and texts and photographs by the members of Sonic Youth. Actually, Kim Gordon and Lee Ranaldo first joined forces as artists, and it was only upon their arrival in New York in the late 1970s that they ventured into the world of music. During the same period, Gordon began her collaborations with several galleries in the Big Apple, her projects as an independent curator and her essays on music and art topics for publications like Artforum.

Dan Graham often recorded his performances at a time when rock stars and artists seemed to be drawing from the same energy and merging their disciplines naturally. Collaborations between musicians and artists prevailed over solo works. In 1981, during the Festival Noise Fest, Gordon and Barbara Ess organised an exhibition of artwork by musicians, most of them friends of Thurston. The idea inspiring this show, according to Ranaldo, was a sort of initiation journey where Sonic Youth sought to not only carve a niche for itself in the music scene but also bring as many people onboard with them as possible.

The music by this incipient band, both far-reaching and complex, merged the rebelliousness of punk rock with experimental music and conceptual art. In "Sensational Fix" you can see both works by active creators working in New York in the 1970s and 1980s and ones by later artists linked to Sonic Youth, including Dan Graham, Tony Oursler, Cindy Sherman, Vito Acconci and Rita Ackermann. Plus, in a pavilion that Dan Graham designed specifically for this exhibition, you can listen to all of Sonic Youth’s output, its recordings and video clips and those by other contemporary bands.

ARTISTS
Vito Acconci, Rita Ackermann, Helen Adam, Ray Agony, John Antonelli, Jerry Aronson, Oliver Assayas, Charles Atlas, Lance Bangs, Judith Barry, Ericka Beckman, Pip Benveniste, Janeen vanden Berg, Bob Bert, Dara Birnbaum, Doug Blazek, Angelique Bosio, Joe Brainard, Glenn Branca, William S. Burroughs, C & H Production, John Cage, Merlin Carpenter, Jim Carroll, Zoë Casavettes, Tom Clark, The Club in the Shadow, Ira Cohen, Joe Cole, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Tony Conrad, Clark Coolidge, Sofia Coppola, Gregory Corso, Paula Court, Sam Crack, Tamra Davis, Tacita Dean, James Denboer, Claire Denis, Nick Egan, Barbara Ess, John Fahey, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jeff Feuerzeig, John Fortenberry, Peter Fowler, frogme, Marco Fusinato, Isa Genzken, Allen Ginsberg, Stefano Giovannini, Tomoo Gokita, Jack Goldstein, Mark Gonzales, Kim Gordon, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Gary Grimshaw, Matt Groening, Brion Gysin, Chris Habib, Tim Hailand, John Harnois, Grant Hart, Todd Haynes, Steve Helweg, Dick Higgins, Åke Hodell, Jenny Holzer, Herbert Hunke, Sidney E. Hushuour, Marc Jacobs, Cameron Jamie, LeRoi Jones (a.k.a. Amiri Baraka), Spike Jonze, Benjamin Katz, Steve Keene, Mike Kelley, Richard Kern, David Kerslake, Braden King, Jutta Koether, Harmony Korine, Tom Kriens, Tim Irwin, Michael Lavine, D.A. Levy, Dan MacAdam, George Maciunas, Gerard Malanga, Malleus, Christian Marclay, Dave Markey, Dylan Martorell, Paul McCarthy, Michael McClure, David Meltzer, Maurice Menares, John Miller, Maya Miller, Robert Mooney, Thurston Moore, Michael Morley, Phil Morrison, Michael Motorcycle, George Myers, John H. Myers, Bill Nace, Pauline Oliveros, John Olson, Roberto Opalio, Jim O’Rourke, Patty Orsini, Tony Oursler, Steve Paine, Steven Parrino, Raymond Pettibon, Edwin Pouncey (a.k.a. Savage Pencil), Richard Prince, Lee Ranaldo, Tom Raworth, Rene Ricard, Darnell Roaten, Mark Romanek, Ed Ruscha, Gus van Sant, Wilhelm Sasnal, Paul Sharits, George Schneeman, Adriane Schramm, Jordan Schwartz, Jim Shaw, Cindy Sherman, J.M. Sherry, Steve Shelley, David Shrigley, Leah Singer, Mike Smith, Patti Smith, Robert Smithson, Sonic Youth, Reena Spaulings, Jack Spicer, Sun Ra, Tom Surgal, Kathy Temin, Tuesday, Dennis Tyfus, Alan Vega, Anne Waldmant, Angus Wall, Jeff Wall, Mike Watt, Marnie Weber, James Welling, Philip Whalon, Joshua White, John Wieners, Christopher Wool, Shinya Yamamoto, Nate Young, Zeloot, Alivia Zivich.

This exhibition has already been shown at LiFE - St. Nazaire, Museion in Bolzano, the Kunsthalle/KIT in Düsseldorf and the Konsthall of Malmö.

CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo
Avda. de la Constitución, 23 - 28931 Móstoles Madrid

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