Riding Down the H@rd Road by Roy Wallace

July, 5th – 10h30 – 11h00 – Opening Exihibition

‘Riding Down the H@rd Road’
Artist: Roy Wallace

Description: Roy Wallace argue that the overarching Grand Narrative concept of the modernist period may prove useful in a ‘post-modern’ era as a significant challenge to the fragmented, banal and often redundant relativism of the post-modern imaginary characteristic. The construction of a narrative necessarily requires a ‘structure’ even if this is an ‘anti-structural’ approach. To deny this universal element of image construction may be regarded as a means to de-politicise the potential of montage posters to motivate collective action which is the central element to the anarcho-punk DIY ethic. To ‘document’ then can also be regarded as a ‘political’ act in reference to ‘definitions of power relationships’ to represent one’s own identity, culture and activities. DIY montage posters works around PUNK faced numerous challenges and resistance both internally and externally, that few other types of underground cultural production processes in the late twentieth century had to face in the archiving of its own history.

Roy Wallace is artist, musician, documentary filmmaker and academic with over thirty years’ experience in UK and European punk scenes. Main feature works include: ‘The Day the Country Died: A history of anarcho-punk in the UK’ (2006), ‘Bloody Bloody Belgium: a history of the underground music scene from 1970’s -2014’ (2014), ‘Big Time: Punk in Belfast 1979-82’ (2003), ‘Assembly Required’ (Buzzcocks 2017). He co-founder Monad Journal since 2017.

URL: www.punkscholars.net; www.trans-states.org; www.monadjournal.com