Lecture date: 2011-07-11
5th in Series
Guest edited by sexymachinery
Image: 2011 marks the 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ as well as the first Gulf War
Anniversary Format remembers those dates from the past we are not allowed to forget as well as those never known in the first place. History is revised each time we recall it from amnesia. Time loops as it struggles to move forwards. It’s OK. There’s a party for someone or something everyday.
Guest edited by sexymachinery (Shumon Basar, Dominik Kremerskothen, Patrick Lacey, Dagmar Radmacher, Benjamin Reichen, Kajsa Stahl, Maki Suzuki) launched the first issue of its eponymous magazine at the AA in July 2000 (with Stephanie Talbot) with the sub-title ‘There are Ideas in Feelings’. Since then, it has produced exhibitions, performances, Adidas adverts and art-directed a pop band. In 2007 sexymachinery announced its demise at a Serpentine Gallery event entitled ‘The End’.
