Event overview
Negative Product Media: Music-video as Immanent Critique
This talk examines the function of the contemporary commercial music-video in a context defined by an ongoing crisis in the ‘traditional’ musical commodity as a profitable object. An outcome of the colonisation of music’s profitability by globalised streaming services such as YouTube from 2005 and Spotify from 2006, the economies of pop music are quickly changing, and in light of the Covid19 pandemic, ever more so. Drawing conceptually from my own practice-led methodology, alongside the methods and arguments of both the Frankfurt school and British Cultural Studies, this paper centres on the form and function of the music-video today. The paper will offer a series of propositions as to how the formal qualities of music-video might be mobilised by visual artists and musicians to “immanently critique” these changes. Focusing specifically on the internal dynamics of the form, its distinctive audio-visuality, technologies and models of subjectivity, the paper will offer a speculative analysis of how these elements in particular might be negatively approached by such a critique. Through an engagement with recent theories of art and its commodification – and using the work of visual artists such as Tony Cokes as case studies – the paper draws out areas of possible experimentation within the fields of both popular music and contemporary art respectively.
About the Speaker:
Anneke Kampman (b.1986. Edinburgh, Scotland) is an artist and musician working across text, music and moving image. Recently, her artworks have taken the form of performances, installations, vinyl records, films, essays and lectures. Her works examine the manner in which the culture industry produces ‘personality’ for purposes of profit, addressing issues of standardisation, reproduction and artistic autonomy within the global circulation of popular music. She is currently undertaking a practice-led PhD at the Slade School of Art and teaches Popular Music at Goldsmiths university, London.
Recent performances and exhibitions include: Labour’s Own Sounding Ideal, Pump House Gallery, London (2019); A Library of and for Listening (2018) Glasgow International; Dead. Air. Management (2018) Pump House Gallery, London; Songs for Another Voice (2017) Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff; Figures. Figure. Stuck (2017) Transmission, Glasgow; Where Blips of Light Called Players Disintegrate (2016) Jerwood Space, London and Labyrinthine (2015) La Monnaie De Munt, Belgium and BBC Tectonics Festival, Glasgow.
Music Research Lectures are free and all are welcome.
The Music Research Series invites researchers from across the country, and from within the department, to present and discuss their work. Undergraduates, researchers and visitors from across the college and the community are also most welcome to these public lectures.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 17 Nov 2022 | 6:00pm - 7:30pm |
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