Rave Art: Flyers, invitations and membership cards

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Being therefrom the beginning, attending many of the now legendary events, from Club Shoom to Energy and beyond, Chelsea's treasure of art and memories is gracefully handed over to us. Dublin-based artist Gavin Connell’s passion for rave art comes from his “love of the music that comes from the parties the artwork promotes.

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CB are set to launch a project with Apple Music at the end of January, and recently won the pitch for the creative at the next Somerset House Summer series – we are looking forward to sharing everything we’ve created. Weirdcore started using Max/MSP as the main software to create his visuals in the early two-thousands.

Rave Art documents carefully and puts in the exact social context the circus of life that once rave was. His flyers often look like other-wordly, metallic landscapes, where smooth and abrasive textures come together, and he quotes artists such as Anja Kaiser and Kristýna Kulíková as influencial in his work. i.am, Jay-Z and Björk were cited as precedents for crafting events and merging music and technology with art. I think ahead, I work with with other companies to realise certain productions, I have to gather funds, I have to make decisions which rely on a lot of money so everything is very planned. Muller from Rolling Stone compared the outfit to Michelin Man, the symbol of the Michelin tire company.

Rave Art: Flyers, invitations and membership cards Rave Art: Flyers, invitations and membership cards

Assembled and edited by Chelsea Louise Berlin, a raver since forever, Rave Art is her collection of rave ephemera.The inclusive nature of music and its ability to instantly relay a message has a satisfaction to it that the painstaking, analytical interpretation and untangling of structures and discourses of art doesn’t.