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Sonic Youth etc.
They are xperimental, provocative and deeply faithful to their art, Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley, otherwise known as US band Sonic Youth.
They have always found a way of combining a rebellious punk attitude with an experimental avant-garde approach. This explains their presence in the galleries of Museion as protagonists of an exhibition produced by the Bolzano-based museum in collaboration with LiFE, St.Nazaire and curated by Roland Groenenboom. The show presents (until 4 January 2009) a quarter of a century of transversal projects by this New York cult group, highlighting their collaboration with artists (such as Vito Acconci, Dan Graham, who has created a special pavilion in the exhibition for listening to the band’s sound archives, Raymond Pettibon and Mike Kelley); writers (including William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg); filmmakers (Spike Jonze, Todd Haynes); and photographers (Cindy Sherman, Richard Kern). The records, videos, posters, T-shirts, musical instruments, fanzines and photographs reveal a lively alternative to mass culture. Elena Sommariva
Tony Conrad, Quartet, 2008
Dan Graham, Sonic Pavilion for punk rock, 2008. Installation view, LiFE, Saint Nazaire
