Another Album

Friday 20 March 2009, 7.00pm until 11.00pm

E:ventGallery, 96 Teesdale Street, London E2 6PU

E:ventGallery is delighted to present Another Album – a one-evening video installation by Johanna Billing, curated by Verina Gfader.

Taking place on a mellow summer evening on a Croatian island, the film Another Album (28 min loop, 2006) shows a group of young people sitting in a backyard, having wine and singing songs from the golden era of Ex-Yugoslavian rock music in the 70s and 80s, before the war would destroy much of pan-Yugoslavian cultural expression. The scenes in Another Album are improvised, and appear to recount a narrative of intimacy, nostalgia and conviviality; yet present is also an apparent commentary on re-enactment as means of cultural resistance. Through their song gatherings, the youths in Another Album revive a lost musical legacy challenging both the past and the present.

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ANOTHER ALBUM
A SELECTION OF GARDEN RECORDINGS on Krapanj island, July 2006
Folded A3 paper/poster accompanying the film.

http://www.makeithappen.org/anotheralbum.html

>>>Download A3 liner notes poster PDF (English Version)
>>>Download A3 liner notes poster PDF (Croatian version)
>>>Download A3 liner notes poster PDF (Castilian version)
>>>Download A3 liner notes poster PDF (Catalan version)

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‘Another Album’, 12” Vinyl LP, 2007, 3 stills (photograph by Verina Gfader)