Blow Up: Exploding Sound and Noise (London to Brighton, 1959-1969)

Abstract

An exhibition of images, artefacts, sound and video curated by David Toop and Tony Herrington (managing editor of The Wire) in which the development of a noise aesthetic in the UK is traced through the work of artists John Latham and Gustav Metzger, filmmaker Jeff Keen, jazz musicians Joe Harriott and Coleridge Goode, improvisers AMM and John Stevens and sound poets Bob Cobbing and Annea Lockwood. Also an essay (published as a catalogue essay and in The Wire magazine) written by David Toop