Bonfire “The Changes” at MU
The central work of the exposition at MU during the GLOW festival, is a mixture between a psychedelic camp-fire and a mysterious advertising pillar. The Changes are building a visual bonfire with nearly sixty big illuminated signs. The artists of the Australian/British/Japanese collective play on the viewer with explosive underground of the 80s and 90s with rave, punk, metal and acid. All in the spirit of Stonehenge.
The Changes is not just any collective, it is a collective as a band. A band that is not making music, but applies itself to image sampling and mixing. “The Times They Are The Changes”, to paraphrase Bob Dylan, and so music leaves the field for image, film and – yes, a bit of – sound.
After gigs in Milan, Tokyo, and Los Angeles, The Changes are now ready for a European tour, which kicks off at MU in Eindhoven.
Departing from backgrounds in fashion, graphic design, pop and art, the four band members have for a couple of years now, applied themselves with sincere commitment and boundless passion for association to the magic of the autodidactic underground. The influence and experience with CULTural explosions of the 80s and 90s - freak-out, rainbow, Mohawks, black, silver, gold, latex, leather and denim – merge into a redefinition of the present, a joyful, comic explosion, pulsating with energy and positivism.
Or as they say themselves: “There is humor in this freedom, and freedom is in this humor. It is like music. Not being afraid and not being shocked by anything, it is a beautiful way of living. Joy and danger belong together and they are entertaining.”
The Changes are Roland Korg, Boohoo Haha, Aries Overload and Vertical Doorway. To those who don’t know these names as yet, think of Misha Hollenbach and Shauna T, better known as Perks & Mini from Melbourne, Fergus Purcell from London, better known as Fergadelic and Sk8thing from Tokyo.
Raw, but also subtle in their building up, The Times They Are The Changes promises to be a bluffing image concert which will be even more convincing because of the use of light.
The exhibition is accompanied by a special catalogue published in collaboration with Nieves and PAM Books and a unique edition of T-shirts.
The Times They Are The Changes can be seen til 14 December at MU.
During Glow daily open in the evening
Fridays and Saturdays til midnight
Sunday to Thursday til 11:00 pm
MU – first floor “Witte Dame”
Emmasingel 20
5611 AZ Eindhoven
Opened daily:
Monday-Friday 10 am – 6 pm,
Saturday 11 am – 5 pm,
Sunday 1 pm – 5 pm
More information: www.mu.nl
