Jeremy Deller is perhaps most famous for his recreation of one of the most powerful moments of the Miners Strike in 1984, the Battle of Orgreave. But, it's to another piece of inspired performance work that he is pointing with his giant wall drawing, The History of the World 1997-2004, which covers the whole of the wall opposite the entrance to the Turner Prize 2004 exhibition. For 1997's Acid Brass, Deller invited a brass band to play reworked acid house anthems and his vast jumble of words, phrases and arrows illustrates his thinking behind it. It traces the links between the Acid House scene of the late 1980s and the traditional brass band. Through the Miners Strike, de-industrialisation and privatisation to advanced capitalism, civil unrest and press hysteria over ecstasy and free parties the two become intertwined as they tell the tale of recent working class history. [1]
[1] Jeremy Deller. (2004). The History of the World 1997-2004. Available: http://www.jeremy-deller.co.uk/jeremy-deller-turner-prize/jeremydellerturnerprize-r1.htm. Last accessed 2013.
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Above is Jeremy Deller's mindmap, this shows how brass band and acid house links together even though they are both very different.
Above is Jeremy Deller's mindmap, this shows how brass band and acid house links together even though they are both very different.
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