Tiré du site Internet de Primary Information: "The first collection in English of Dan Graham's influential body of writing on Rock and Roll music. Stretching from the late 60s to the late 80s, Rock/Music Writings contains the following 13 essays, most of which are currently out-of-print or seen here for the first time in a widely distributed form : Holes and lights. A rock concert special. All you need is love. Live kinks. Late kinks. Country trip. The end of liberalism. Punk as propaganda. Rock my religion. New Wave Rock and the feminine. Musical performance and stage - set utilizing two - way mirror and time - delay. McLaren's children. Untitled. Artist as producer."
It's hard for some kids to wait for something that they really want! In this
lively, rhyming picture book, twins Dell and Pete face a series of humorous
choices that test their ability to stay strong in the face of temptation.
„Don’t Trust Anyone Over Thirty“ is a satiric entertainment continuing the artist's cultural analysis of the '60s, which began with Graham's 1981 video „Rock My Religion,“ a video dealing with the evolution of youth culture during the '50s, '60s, and after. "Don't Trust" is set in the late '60s to early '70s period when the „hippie“ tribes moved their „counter culture“ to settlements to the bucolic „wilderness“ of the countryside. The work as Graham originally conceived it was meant to be staged as a puppet show, like „The Muppets,“ for entertainment of former hippie fathers or grandfathers to see as a historical recreation by their children or grandchildren.
The iconic artist Dan Graham and interviewing curator Hans Ulrich Obrist met onseveral occasions to discuss the artist’s work, life and the numerous interests hepassionately follows. The conversation wanders seamlessly from architecture torock’n’roll, philosophy to astrology, Graham’s early performance pieces, photographyand articles, to the films and glass pavilions for which he is most well known. A veritablefountain of knowledge, his recollections of friends and colleagues, art work andinfluences, provide an invaluable insight not only into the New York art scene of the1960s and 1970s, but also one of its most influential representatives. In mehreren Interviews mit Hans Ulrich Obrist diskutiert Dan Graham über sein Leben, seine Arbeit und die vielfältigen Interessen, denen der Künstler mit Leidenschaftnachgeht. Die Unterhaltungen streifen verschiedenste Themen – Architektur, Rock-‘n‘-Roll, Populärkultur oder Astrologie sowie Grahams frühe Performance-Arbeiten, seineFotografien und Aufsätze. Auch die filmischen Arbeiten und die bekannten Glas-Pavillons des Künstlers sind Inhalt der vielen Gespräche. Dan Graham ist ein wahrerWissensquell, der den Umkreis von Künstlern und Mitstreitern seiner Zeit reflektiert, die New Yorker Kunst-Szene der 1960er-und 1970er-Jahre und natürlich sich selbst, als einen ihrer bedeutendsten Vertreter.
