In this edition of TateShots, part of our Sound & Vision series, we talk to American ‘anti-folk’ singer Jeffrey Lewis. In his live shows, Lewis often tells stories illustrated by comic books he has drawn himself. This film covers his thoughts on drawing and performing, and includes a clip of his illustrated ‘History of Communism’ (part 5, North Korea), filmed in Birmingham during his UK tour in 2009.
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Cosey Fanni Tutti is the ideal artist to start our new series on art and music, having worked across the two mediums since 1969. In this film, interspersed with live footage from her bands Throbbing Gristle and Chris and Cosey, she talks about her distaste for decorative art and how her music is all about emotion. She also discusses her work from the 1970s, in which she modeled for glamour magazines as a way to explore the commodification of sex. It would have been hypocritical, she explains, to use images of other people when she could have done it herself. Moving seamlessly between the sex, art and music industries, Cosey puts herself at the heart of her artistic output.
TateShots: Sound & Vision is a series of six films about the intersection of art and music. They are directed by Nicola Probert and forthcoming films feature contributions from Jeffrey Lewis, David Byrne, Lydia Lunch, Mark E Smith and Billy Childish. Make sure you are subscribed to TateShots to receive each one automatically.
This is a trailer for a series of films starting next week on TateShots. They feature interviews with six musicians who cross boundaries into visual art. Talking to us are Talking Heads front-man David Byrne; The Fall’s Mark E Smith; Cosey Fanni Tutti of Throbbing Gristle; anti-folk singer and cartoonist Jeffrey Lewis; “fierce” performance poet Lydia Lunch and the prolific one-time ‘Stuckist’ Billy Childish – who will be shown interviewing himself.
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