This autumn, Goldsmiths, University of London is hosting a “series of talks and film screenings exploring post-punk’s modernist search for the new from the 1970s to today”. Post-Punk Then and Now runs over ten weeks, from from early October to mid-December – as a strand within the university’s Visual Cultures Public Programme,
On 13 November, Gee Vaucher (Crass) and artist and writer Laura Oldfield Ford will be ‘in conversation with’ Mark Fisher; and in the final session of the programme (11 December), Tom Vague will speak on ‘Vague Post-Punk Memoirs’. All events, which are free to attend, begin at 17:00 and end at 19:00 – all welcome.
Post-Punk Then and Now events are held in 309, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW.
Post-Punk Then and Now – 2014
“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano (1979)
That is essentially what Tom Vague did with Cyberpunk – he took things right out to the edge….he was way ahead of his time. I was…what was I ? I was a refugee…a survivor of Project Morning Star…and he gave me a blank page – and it stretched for miles and he just said…”write…” – so I wrote about our experiences of flying experimental military aircraft to the very edges, liminalities and peripheries of human endurance…and our perceptions of all those things beyond the edge….