LONDON.- Wandsworth Councils
Pump House Gallery presents the first institutional solo exhibition by London based visual artist Anneke Kampman.
Kampman works with text, music and moving-image to examine the ways the culture industry produces personality for purposes of profit. In Labours Own Sounding Ideal, she presents ongoing research that investigates the social and artistic functions of the music-video form and its modes of production.
Across the exhibition, works trace the historical development of the music video, from the birth of MTV in 1981 to its present-day YouTube ubiquity. This now pervasive form is used as a framework to consider broader concerns with standardisation, artistic autonomy and political economy.
A web archive documents the music videos development across shifting political, technological and economic conditions. In doing so the music video is employed as a lens through which to address changing concerns of everyday life. In addition to its archive, Labours Own Sounding Ideal features an integral video work.
Working with artists from Common Study, an artist-led working group concerned with art, education and politics, the exhibition further features a production space on the second floor. This public studio will act as a site for a collaborative response to ideas present elsewhere in the exhibition. A programme of one-off events and public workshops will accompany Labours Own Sounding Ideal.