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 Lying On!.
I was invited by visiting lecturer/designer Andrew Bunney and artist/course leader Nicola Malkin.
As well as untangling the strands which led to the creation of the t-shirt, I also provided a brief history of modern art-based manifestos/rants/opinionated tracts, from the Futurists and Blast in the early 20th century through to Roland Barthes’ J’aime/Je n’aime pas and the Society For Cutting Up Men.
See Nicola Malkin’s site here and Andrew Bunney’s site here.
