“Requiem to the Negativist Spectacle”
Arlo Mountford
4 Mar → 19 Mar 2005
Arlo Mountford ‘Requiem to the Negativist Spectacle’ 2005, Installation view: West Space, Bourke Street Mall, 2005. Photography by Christian Capurro.
Requiem to the Negativist Spectacle is an interactive work by Arlo Mountford consisting of constructed structure and animations.
"Through rose tinted lenses we remember the events we read about, which happened before our time – those were the days.
The violence and energy, the hate – fuck you I won't do what you tell me —
Whoops – Sony own that! That’s my era anyhow when the Rage took high moral ground. Not like those good old days back in Zurich during the war.
Stockhausen now that was a negativist performance! Like the Sex Pistols on Today with Bill Grundy? Could we order some more of those mannequins from Jake and Dinos."
Arlo Mountford completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Melbourne University's Victorian College of the Arts in 2002, and in 2003 undertook a studio residency at Gertrude Contemporary.