Scoring Patti Smith

Scoring Patti Smith

Catherine Clover, Danae Valenza, Danius Kesminas, Hissy Fit, India Zegan, Jacqueline Millner, John Paul Cretney, Josephine Skinner, Julian Day, Linda Dement, Luke Parker, Maria Cruz, Matthew Hopkins, Mish Meijers, Ron Adams, Tina Havelock Stevens, Tricky Walsh

aural notation/ graphic performance/ lyric equivalence/ language score/ word music / image scripts/ prose gestures/ eye vocals/ affect code/ spoken concrete/ ecstatic registration/

Patti Smith: poet, writer, musician, mythmaker, punk, photographer and icon. Patti Smith’s symbolist-driven lyrics and potent spoken-word performances, along with her recent prose memoirs, Just Kids, Woolgathering and M Train, have made her a reckoning force in music, literature, fashion and the visual arts. In the 1970s Smith’s impervious, androgynous stance, in juxtaposition with her fevered writing and intonation, bridged the image-conscious Warholian avant-garde, the subcultural ardour of the Beats, the dystopian visions of William Burroughs and the DIY culture of punk. Four decades on, Smith continues to hold a unique position of reference in the language and visual cultures we inhabit in the arts.

Much of Smith’s impact has resulted from the energy and the intensity of her spoken-word. It is the performative dimension of her language that this exhibition considers. Traversing the terrain of experimental music, avant-garde performance and concrete poetry, the artworks in this exhibition are responses to Patti Smith’s wielding of words.

November 11, 2015 – January 15, 2016

Curated by Affiliated Text

Photo credits: Felicity Jenkins

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: Scoring Patti Smith. Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins

: Scoring Patti Smith. Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins

: Scoring Patti Smith. Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins

: Danae Valenza, Mish Meijers, Josephine Skinner, Tricky Walsh (top to bottom, L to R). Download roomsheet for full details. Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins

: Tina Havelock Stevens, Catherine Clover, Danius Kesminas, Jacqueline Millner & John Paul Cretney, Matthew Hopkins (top to bottom, L to R). Download roomsheet for full details. Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins

: Danae Valenza, Untitled (Portrait of Patti Smith), 2015, digital type C print, edition of 3, 42 x 59.4cm. Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins

: Mish Meijers, ‘Psst Patti, never read the youtube comments.’ 2015, acrylic paint, mixed media and ink on paper, 26 pp artist book. Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins

: Mish Meijers, ‘Psst Patti, never read the youtube comments.’ 2015, acrylic paint, mixed media and ink on paper, 26 pp artist book. Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins

: Mish Meijers, ‘Psst Patti, never read the youtube comments.’ 2015, acrylic paint, mixed media and ink on paper, 26 pp artist book. Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins

: Josephine Skinner, ‘Love is a ring, the telephone’, 2015, QR code, .gif animation (5 minute loop), Tinder (see instructions on roomsheet). Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins

: Tricky Walsh, ‘A series of diacritical performance gestures’, 2015, Gouache and ink on paper, dimensions variable. Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins

: Ron Adams, ‘Seneca’, 2015, Acrylic on MDF, 60 x 40 cm. Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins

: Maria Cruz, ‘Kiss’, 2015, ballpoint pen on cotton hanky, 42 x 42cm (Instructional piece made by Lisa Andrew.) Luke Parker, ‘notebook 2010, with two dreams and one quote’, cyanotype on Arches paper, 2015, 42 x 59.4cm. Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins

: Luke Parker, ‘notebook 2010, with two dreams and one quote’, cyanotype on Arches paper, 2015, 42 x 59.4cm. Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins

: Linda Dement, ‘Patti Smith is god and she asks you this’, 2015, geolocated augmented reality, print 59.4 x 35 cm and instructions 59.4 x 21 cm. (see instructions on roomsheet) Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins

: India Zegan, ‘Museum of Fathers: HoRses- HorSES- hORSES’, (2004-2015), Nail polish, bronze, Unique cast,1/1, dimensions variable. Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins

: India Zegan, Julian Day, Hissy Fit (top to bottom, L to R). Download roomsheet for full details. Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins

: Julian Day, ‘Fuck Plenty With The Future’, 2015, vinyl record and adhesive letters, 30cm diameter. Hissy Fit, ‘I might blow up someday’, presented by Performance Space, Liveworks Festival 2015, image by Alex Davies. Pigment ink on 100% cotton rag. (top to bottom) Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins

: Tina Havelock Stevens, ‘WHAT REMAINS IS FUTURE’, 2015, pigment ink- jet print on cotton rag, 32.9 X 48.3cm. Catherine Clover, ‘Make ravens of us all’, 2015, printed postcards. Danius Kesminas, ‘Vilnius Underground: Disco Drill’, 2015, pigment ink on photo paper. (top to bottom, L to R) Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins

: Jacqueline Millner & John Paul Cretney, ‘Exegesis’, 2015, black wood and acrylic. Matthew Hopkins, ‘Stereo Poem (The Writer’s Song)’, 2015, laser jet print and permanent marker on coloured card, 21 x 29.7cm. (L to R) Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins

: Matthew Hopkins, ‘Stereo Poem (The Writer’s Song)’, 2015, laser jet print and permanent marker on coloured card, 21 x 29.7cm. Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins

: liner notes for Patti Smith Group Radio Ethiopia, cover of Radio Ethiopia and back cover of Horses by Patti Smith. Also on the mantelpiece are take-home copies of Catherine Clover’s postcard series ‘Make ravens of us all’. Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins

: Josephine Skinner, ‘Love is a ring, the telephone’, 2015, QR code, .gif animation (5 minute loop), Tinder (as viewed at exhibition opening at 33 Roslyn Street, Kings Cross) Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins

: Linda Dement, ‘Patti Smith is god and she asks you this’, 2015, geolocated augmented reality (as viewed at exhibition opening at 33 Roslyn Street, Kings Cross) Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins

: Scoring Patti Smith. Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins