For celebrating their 10th anniversary, Chicks on Speed in Berlin is organising a retrospective exhibition at the Dundee Contemporary Arts Centre in Scotland. This is the first major solo exhibition in the UK of Chicks on Speed: an ever-changing multidisciplinary art group who apply punk-inspired DIY ethic to interrogate the boundaries of art, craft, fashion, music and new media.
Known globally for their melting-pot-style – encompassing cutting-edge pop music, performance art, a record label, collage graphics, painting and DIY fashion. Chick’s on Speed’s practice is chaotic and firmly against sedative art.
The exhibition will open with a live art performance for invited guests on June 4th. The highlight of their exhibition will be the unveiling of the ESHOE, this is a stiletto shoe that can be utilised as an electric guitar. They designed this stiletto together with the haute couture shoe designer Max Kibardin. These shoes will be unveiled alongside Chicks on Speed’s ever-growing collection of self made ‘objekt instruments’ – cigar-box synthesizers, super suits with sewn-in body sensors that trigger audio/video samples and two hats made in collaboration with Christophe Coppens and Hangar.org.
The DCA galleries will be further transformed into a giant stage and studio set for making music videos, experimenting with no-choreography and ongoing craft projects live, including loom-weaving inspired by Bauhaus design, lectures and workshops, film screenings of their fashion archive and selected video pieces. To coincide with the exhibition, DCA are co-producing a book with Booth-Clibborn Editions that will be launched in September 2010.
Chicks on Speed:Don't Art, Fashion, Music
June 5th - August 8th, 2010
Dundee Contemporary Arts , Dundee
Written for BLEND.
The exhibition will open with a live art performance for invited guests on June 4th. The highlight of their exhibition will be the unveiling of the ESHOE, this is a stiletto shoe that can be utilised as an electric guitar. They designed this stiletto together with the haute couture shoe designer Max Kibardin. These shoes will be unveiled alongside Chicks on Speed’s ever-growing collection of self made ‘objekt instruments’ – cigar-box synthesizers, super suits with sewn-in body sensors that trigger audio/video samples and two hats made in collaboration with Christophe Coppens and Hangar.org.
The DCA galleries will be further transformed into a giant stage and studio set for making music videos, experimenting with no-choreography and ongoing craft projects live, including loom-weaving inspired by Bauhaus design, lectures and workshops, film screenings of their fashion archive and selected video pieces. To coincide with the exhibition, DCA are co-producing a book with Booth-Clibborn Editions that will be launched in September 2010.
Chicks on Speed:
June 5th - August 8th, 2010
Dundee Contemporary Arts , Dundee
Written for BLEND.
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