18 December 2015
Pera Museum’s Instagram account was taken over by “This is Not A Love Song” exhibition’s project managers Fatma Çolakoğlu and Ulya Soley!
Check out this special tour!
James Clar, Dance Therapy, 2011
“Am I a musician trapped in the mind of an artist or an artist trapped in the body of a musician?”
Good morning! We took over the museum’s Instagram account as the project managers of the exhibition This is Not a Love Song.
Largen & Bread, This is Not a Love Song, 2013
Mostly known by Nouvelle Vague’s cover, this song was originally released by Public Image Ltd. in 1983 and became a hit! The video takes its title from this song.
Andy Warhol, who designed this iconic album cover of The Velvet Underground, played a crucial role in the band’s career.
“Every song has a memory; every song has the ability to make or break your heart, shut down the heart, and open the eyes.”
“It’s better to burn out than to fade away”
Nirvana’s frontman Kurt Cobain quoted Neil Young‘s song Hey Hey, My My in his suicide note.
“Relax don’t do it
When you want to go to it”
Tony Cokes’ Ad Vice reminds us of Frankie Goes to Hollywood’a 1983 hit Relax!
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“Free your mind… and your ass will follow”Shy to
dance? Just listen to funk music!
Adrian Piper, Funk Lessons, 1983
Assume Vi̇vi̇d Astro Focus,Walking on Thin Ice, 2003
Psychodelia, dance culture, gender identity…
The song Walking on Thin Ice was the last recording that Yoko Ono and John Lennon did together 35 years ago.
Walking on thin ice, I’m paying the price
For throwing the dice in the air
Why must we learn it the hard way?
And play the game of life with your heart
Jeremy Deller, Dünya Tari̇hi̇, 1997-2004
“Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.” Jimi Hendrix
Thank you for touring the exhibition with us today!
This is Not A Love Song: Video Art and Pop Music Crossovers took place at the Pera Museum between 25 November 2015 - 07 February 2016.
I think it was Frank Zappa – though others claim it was Laurie Anderson – who said in an interview that ‘writing on music is much like dancing on architecture’.
In 1962 Philip Corner, one of the most prominent members of the Fluxus movement, caused a great commotion in serious music circles when during a performance entitled Piano Activities he climbed up onto a grand piano and began to kick it while other members of the group attacked it with saws, hammers and all kinds of other implements.
Nam June Paik was video art’s pioneer (1932 –2006). It is interesting that while Warhol and Nameth were experimenting with psychedelic happenings that combined rock, film and performance, the video art pioneers Nam June Paik, Stephen Beck, Eric Siegel and Steina Vasulka were researching in a similar direction.
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