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Graham focuses on the social and sexual origins and implications of rock and roll, and his historical reconstruction provides a framework for the interpretation of the rituals of rock and punk culture as forms of religious practice.
Rock My Religion, 1982-1984. Farbe und S/W, Ton, U-Matic, NTSC, 55:27 Min. Inv. Nr. V-1995-27. Sammlung: Kunst der Gegenwart | Audio/Video. BPK Fotobestellung.
Rock My Religion is a (1984) no wave experimental art film by Dan Graham. It's also the title of a collection of essays written by Dan himself from 1965 to 1990.
In it, the artist analysed the most intellectualised practices of punk-rock that had emerged in New York in the second half of the 1970s, including Patti Smith, who, according to Graham, was ‘the first to expose the truth that rock is a religion’.
Dan Graham’s video Rock My Religion advances a provocative thesis that intertwines the histories of American rock music and religion. Using montage and text, Graham compares the emergence of the rebellious teenager in suburban postwar America to the utopian vision of the Shakers, a religious sect that originated in Manchester, England, in the ...
Rock My Religion, constructed as a complex collage of texts, film footage and performance, grew from an article of the same name in which Graham brought together music, community and contemporary performance around an interest in intellectual punk rock from New York from the second half of the 1970s, here represented by Patti Smith. This web of ...
»Rock My Religion« Dan Grahams cross-over aus Recherche, Poptheorie und genrelosem Produzieren verhalf ihm zum Geheimtip-Status bei frei vagabundierenden Kunstakademieabbrechern.
