Eyes For Blowing Up Bridges* is the title of the forthcoming exhibition about the creative interplay between a group of remarkable radical artists, poets, writers and activists who initiated, perpetrated and influenced a range of post-war alternatives.

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Tags: Alexander Trocchi, Asger Jorn, David Thorp, David Wise, Derek Harris, Guy Debord, Hervé Falcou, John Hansard Gallery, King Mob, Nostalgia Of Mud, Paul Burgess, Stuart Wise, William Burroughs

//Explanatory text panel which appeared on the inside cover of Icteric No. 2 with 2004 note, from King Mob: A Critical Hidden History//

//Extract of text on 1974 t-shirt by Bernie Rhodes, Malcolm McLaren and Gerry Goldstein//

A few years ago I attempted a dissection of the intriguing elements of the culture-shock t-shirt You’re Gonna Wake Up One Morning And Know What Side Of The Bed You’ve Been Lying On!, produced by Bernie Rhodes, Malcolm McLaren and Gerry Goldstein for sale in Sex at 430 King’s Road in the autumn of 1974.

In You’re Gonna Wake Up, the declamatory tone, aggressive punctuation, satirical bite and use of basic typographical emphases such as the repeated forward slash and random capitalised text combined to detonate a densely packed cultural device.

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Tags: Antonin Artaud, Arthur Cravan, Bernard Buffet, Blue Blouse, Boris Arvatov, Buckminster Fuller, David Wise, Erik Satie, Filippo Tomasso Marinetti, Francis Picabia, Franz Jung, Georges Méliès, Giorgio de Chirico, Icteric, James Joyce, Jean-Paul Sartre, Johannes Baader, John Cage, John Myers, Jonathan Swift, Kazimir Malevich, Leon Trotsky, Louis Aragan, Marcel DUchamp, Maurice Martin du Gard, Nick Brandt, Raymond Roussel, Richard von Foregger, Ron Hunt, Stuart Wise, Tristan Tzara, Vache, Viktor Rodchenko, Vladimir Tatlin, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Woyrow, You're Gonna Wake Up One Morning And Know What Side Of The Bed You've Been Lying On!