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.
“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….