Focusing upon the production of post-punk art, film, music, and publishing, this book offers new perspectives on an overlooked period of cultural activity, and probes the lessons that might be learnt from history for artists and musicians working under 21st century conditions of austerity.
Publication accompanying the eponymous exhibition at the Transition Gallery, 16 June-15 July 2007; with texts by a number of writers including Iain Sinclair, Charlie Porter and Ruth Jarvis.
As the Creative City model for urban regeneration founders on the rocks of the recession, and the New Labour public art commissioning frenzy it triggered recedes, the authors take stock of an era of highly instrumentalised public art making.