All that is Solid Melts into Air : Jeremy Deller

12 Oct 2013-19 Jan 2014

Overview

For this new Hayward Touring exhibition, launching at Manchester Art Gallery, Jeremy Deller explores the roots of working class musical culture, from 19th century industrial folk to glam and heavy rock music in the 70s and 80s. The exhibition will combine contemporary works with a vast range of objects and images, from historical paintings depicting factories and forges to oppositional broadsheets, political tracts, poems and popular ballads. Accompanied by a programme of events, performances and screenings, Deller approaches this wealth of material like a social cartographer tracing neglected ley lines of cultural history. The exhibition will include a newly commissioned film by Deller, along with banners and murals specially made for each screening.