KRAŜO! 3: Nostalgio Por La Jeto-Aĝo estas skatolo de lertaĵoj *
The third edition of Scott King and Matt Worley’s CRASH! has arrived. Entitled Nostalgia For The Jet Age, it is an “exhibition in a box” which coincides with an actual exhibition of the same name currently being held at Scotland’s Timespan.
//CRASH! 2 among the exhibits in PRINT! Tearing It Up at Somerset House this summer//
The first two issues, published in 1997 and 1999, were fiercely funny and vindictive magazine/fold-out poster combinations. Both featured in PRINT!, the Somerset House exhibition I organised with Claire Catterall this summer; King designed that show’s graphic identity.
The box housing Nostalgia For The Jet Age contains the third magazine/fold-out, which serves up scorching observations from King, Worley and a variety of sources, including Hawkwind and The Good Life’s Margo Leadbetter, and unfolds into a Wolfgang Tillmans Concorde poster.
There is also a transcript of conversation between King and Timespan director Sadie Young and two quizzical postcards (“Britain Before Central Heating” strikes a deep chord with me).
You can keep warm this winter with the 70s fan-scarf inscribed “100% Polyester”, all the while reading the imagined reflection by astronaut Neil Armstrong a year after his moonwalk and a poster declaring “The Village Green Demolition Society” in Esperanto.
Oh, and there’s a lovely metallic badge which announces in computer typeface: “Fuck Off Earthling”.
King mentions the box’s many connections to Earl Brutus, the long-gone but never forgotten art-glam-rock band with which he was associated.
That gives me a chance to show the clip for Come Taste My Mind, made by King and Donald Miln in 1998 and a firm favourite twenty years later:
Nostalgia For The Jet Age is at Timespan until February 28, 2019. Details here.
The magazine and badge will be available from London’s ICA shop from next week.
Box versions will be available from the Timespan website soon.
* CRASH! 3: Nostalgia For The Jet Age is a box of tricks