David Dorrell is a self-confessed autodidact who has always found fascination poking around in the entrails of what passes as pop culture whether writing one line Situationist poems for The Modern World fanzine as a teen Punk, ushering the word Goth into popular usage as a writer at the NME during his twenties or mixing Dada ‘cut-up’ with Grandmaster Flash to produce ‘Pump Up The Volume’ as M|A|R|RS.
His obsession with language, meaning and symbology has left an indelible mark on our cultural landscape. His recent solo show, ‘Roost’, at London’s MEN Gallery saw him spend the four days and three nights of Easter locked in the gallery with two chickens and a rifle as he echoed Beuys’ ‘I like America, America likes me’ action in the context of financial meltdown, artificial Global Pandemics, Pop Art, the fear of assassination in the Public Mind, Vodou ritual, Voodoo economics, the charade of the Vote and the advent of late-stage Capitalism.
He lives in London with his Messiah complex.
Mix by David Dorrell, engineered by Kevin Swain.
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