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Project description<\/h5>\n

Parade<\/em> by Mark Leckey (b. 1964, Birkenhead, UK) is a single-screen video and sound installation commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella in association with the Brighton Photo Biennial. First presented at Fabrica, Brighton, in 2003, the work accompanied Make Life Beautiful! The Dandy in Photography<\/em> at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery.<\/p>\n

Continuing Leckey\u2019s exploration of style, subculture and contemporary icons, Parade<\/em> offers a provocative meditation on the metropolitan dandy. A solitary male figure moves through a hallucinatory urban landscape of fashion, music, consumer imagery and desire, in an oblique narrative that imagines the dandy\u2019s possible future. Clothing and commodities acquire an almost talismanic significance, while the distorted repetition of the word \u201cPARADE\u201d creates an unsettling sonic pulse. Rather than evoking celebration, the procession becomes a claustrophobic cycle of images, aspirations and desires.<\/p>\n

Leckey is known for examining youth culture, nostalgia and the relationship between popular imagery and collective memory. His influential work Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore<\/em> (1999), assembled from found footage of British dance cultures, established his distinctive approach to reworking images, music and cultural references. Parade<\/em> extends this practice through its engagement with fashion, urban visual culture and the literary and historical traditions of dandyism, drawing on ideas of aestheticism, decadence and the bohemian outsider.<\/p>\n

The dandy emerges as both an elegant figure and a social outcast, caught between aesthetic pleasure and consumer desire. As the protagonist navigates this world of spectacle and display, fascination gives way to entrapment, revealing a psychological landscape in which identity is shaped\u2014and confined\u2014by the images that surround it. Combining moving image, sound and popular culture, Parade<\/em>explores the uneasy relationship between self-fashioning, taste and the contemporary city.<\/p>\n

Bio<\/h5>\n

Mark Leckey is a British artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores youth culture, popular media, nostalgia, class and collective memory. His work has been exhibited at Tate Britain, Tate Modern, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.<\/p>\n

He represented Britain at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007 and was awarded the Turner Prize in 2008. More recent exhibitions include O\u2019 Magic Power of Bleakness at Tate Britain (2019) and Mark Leckey at Cabinet, London (2022).<\/p>\n

Project details<\/h5>\n

Year:<\/strong> 2003
Artist:<\/strong> Mark Leckey
Exhibition:<\/strong> Parade<\/em>
Commissioned by:<\/strong> Film and Video Umbrella
Produced in association with:<\/strong> Brighton Photo Biennial
Presented at:<\/strong> Fabrica, Brighton
Associated exhibition:<\/strong> Make Life Beautiful! The Dandy in Photography<\/em>
24 October\u201330 November 2003
Format:<\/strong> Single-screen video and sound installation
Duration:<\/strong> 16 minutes 37 seconds
Country:<\/strong> United Kingdom<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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