Mark Leckey: 'When I first made Fiorucci 20 years ago, I remember thinking it was just a steaming pile of shite.'
. Made in response to the music video format and exploring the organic evolution of musical subcultures, it’s a film that not only asserted the legitimacy of working-class vernacular culture, but also the art world’s historic resistance to it; standing out at a time when the industry was dominated by the capitalist tendencies of Eton-educated Jay Jopling and White Cube, and a whole roster of YBAs willing to get rich quick through the investment of dubiously-acquired wealth.
And then I just thought, well I want to celebrate the culture that I came from. I thought it was equally intelligent and just as, if not more, forward thinking than a lot of what we were being taught in school. I grew up learning to understand semiotics and signs and how to read things and use them and play with them in a very sophisticated way and so, yeah, that was kind of how I started making work.Yeah, it was very surprising.
In the last couple of years we’ve seen a massive surge of interest in the writings of Mark Fisher – are you into him?He argues that the working class and the left need to find a constructive way of expressing themselves and a constructive identity, of getting beyond the hauntological. That’s what your show felt like to me, that we were finally moving into something a bit more tangible.
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