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Industrial music appeared in the mid-1970s, and far from being a simple sound experimentation phenomenon, it quickly spawned a coherent visual culture operating at the intersection of a multitude of media (collage, mail art, installation, film, performance, sound, video) and initiated a close inspection of the legacy of modernity and the growing, pervasive influence of technology. Originally British, the movement soon outgrew Europe, extending into the United States and Japan during the 1980s. The sound experiments conducted by industrial bands – designing synthesizers, manipulating and transforming recorded sounds from audio tapes, either recycled or laid down by the artists – were backed up by a rich array of radical visual productions, deriving their sources from the modernist utopias of the first part of the 20th century. Such saturated sounds were translated into abrasive images, manipulated through the détournement of reprographic techniques (Xerox art), that investigated polemical themes: mind control, criminality, occultism, pornography, psychiatry and totalitarianism, among others. This book introduces the visual and aesthetic elements of 1970s and 1980s industrial culture to a general history of contemporary art by analysing the different approaches taken and topics addressed by the primary protagonists of the movement, who perceptively anticipated the current discourse concerning the media and their collective coercive power.
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Industrial music appeared in the mid-1970s, and far from being a simple sound experimentation phenomenon, it quickly spawned a coherent visual culture operating at the intersection of a multitude of media (collage, mail art, installation, film, performance, sound, video) and initiated a close inspection of the legacy of modernity and the growing, pervasive influence of technology. Originally British, the movement soon outgrew Europe, extending into the United States and Japan during the 1980s. The sound experiments conducted by industrial bands – designing synthesizers, manipulating and transforming recorded sounds from audio tapes, either recycled or laid down by the artists – were backed up by a rich array of radical visual productions, deriving their sources from the modernist utopias of the first part of the 20th century. Such saturated sounds were translated into abrasive images, manipulated through the détournement of reprographic techniques (Xerox art), that investigated polemical themes: mind control, criminality, occultism, pornography, psychiatry and totalitarianism, among others. This book introduces the visual and aesthetic elements of 1970s and 1980s industrial culture to a general history of contemporary art by analysing the different approaches taken and topics addressed by the primary protagonists of the movement, who perceptively anticipated the current discourse concerning the media and their collective coercive power.
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Broder Jean-Pierre, mjölnarsonen som växt upp i en liten by i Alsace, är nu 92 år gammal. Han tvångsrekryterades av nazisterna under andra världskriget, men klarade sig från östfronten på grund av en tursam ögoninfektion. Trappistmunk sedan nästan 60 år, prästvigd, munk i Tibhirineklostret i Atlasbergen i Algeriet sedan 1964, medverkade han till att skapa en dialog med klostrets muslimska grannar och de sufiordnar som verkar i Algeriet. Som genom ett under undgick han natten mellan den 26:e och 27:e mars 1996 att som sju av sina nio klosterbröder föras bort av okända gärningsmän och två månader senare få halsen avskuren. Han är nu den siste överlevaren av de munkar i de algeriska Atlasbergen som mördades våren 1996 och bor på klostret Notre-Dame de l’Atlas i Marocko. Tragedin i Tibhirine blev även ämne för en uppmärksammad film, "Gudar och människor". Denna bok är det första direkta vittnesbördet om den tiden efter morden på de sju trappistbröderna i Tibhirine i Algeriet 1996, då klostret fick överges. Nicolas Ballet är journalist på tidningen Progrès i Frankrikes andra stad Lyon och lärare vid stadens Institut d’études politiques.