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Tag: Roland Barthes

1970s

Victor Burgin: UK76 at Richard Saltoun and Burgin/Barthes at John Hansard

The work of artist Victor Burgin is undergoing re-appraisal in the light of two forthcoming exhibitions, one of which starts this week. London’s Richard Saltoun Gallery is marking the 40th anniversary of Burgin’s photo-text series UK76 by presenting the work in its entirety and in the form in which he showed his art in the […]

December 2, 2015
Art

Talking about You’re Gonna Wake Up

Earlier this month I gave a talk to foundation year art and design students at Saint Martin’s as part of a brief to deliver work based on their personal opinions and beliefs. The subject was the 1974 t-shirt You’re Gonna Wake Up One Of These Days And Know Which Side Of The Bed You’ve Been […]

January 30, 2012
Blessed and Blasted

Blessed & Blasted: J’aime, Je n’aime pas. 1975

Interesting to note that Roland Barthes’ “anarchic foam of tastes and distastes” is contemporaneous with You’re Gonna Wake Up. No surprise then that J’aime, je n’aime pas became the starting point for updates and personal interpretations among list-loving binary-fixated bloggers from the mid-Noughties onwards. Here is a translation of the Great Signifier’s original, complete with […]

June 17, 2011