I work on photographic and print material projects plus experimental electronic audio. Out of Sequence is a repository for photographic projects and documentary work of Malcolm Brown.
WHEN DECADES COLLIDE
A visceral moment in time occurred approximately between 1978-1983 when a portal to a possible audio-visual dimension opened. Culture was destabilised as the tectonic plates of the 1970’s collided with the 1980’s. A fracture in cultural time deployed the Avant Garde who gave us a glance at a different future initiated by:
Industrial Records; Second Annual Report, D.O.A, Heathen Earth; Chris and Cosey, Heartbeat, Trance; Cabaret Voltaire, Mix Up, Voice of America; The Human League, Dignity of Labour, Being Boiled; The Normal, Warm Leatherette, T.V.O.D. ; Leer and Rental, The Bridge; The Final Academy; Bladerunner; Escape from New York; Scanners; Subverting business models and seizing the means of production by small independent tape labels.
“Outsiders locked inside” seeing that initial glimpse of an alternative future dematerialize have evolved in multiplex directions.
Active agents are still in the field.
Shadows rising out of sequence.
From the desk of : Malcolm Brown
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OUT OF SEQUENCE
Deep respect to Gordon Hope for allowing me to use the title of his Those Little Aliens track “Out of Sequence” for this project.
“Recorded in my bedroom on Cat synth and Wasp as far as I can remember.”
Gordon established Flowmotion fanzine which was fuel for the independent cassette scene. Flowmotion is also the title of a CAN LP and track.
REFERENCE MATERIAL
A STORY OF MALEVOLENT MISEDUCATION
The Rudimentary History Of Uneasy Listening. Dave Henderson reflects on a cultural fracture in space time.
QUITTING YOUR DAY JOB : CHAUNCEY HARE’S PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK - Brian Arnold.
“More and more the language of academia incorporates the language of business, with obsessions about assessment, outcomes, and other quantifiers becoming an ever-increasing part of education. Financial and pedagogical hierarchies between programs and departments are rife, each institution using their resources in an attempt to corner a particular discipline (perhaps better to say market). Nothing seems different to me in the art world, though perhaps the hierarchies are more rigid, as people jockey for position and attempt to claw their way to the top, rarely reaching down to help others attempting to do the same. Addressing the evolution of the art world into the 21st century, photographer Robert Adams identified an ailment he coined “economic censorship” as a growing trend in which the value of creative work is determined by its retail potential.”
THE FINAL ACADEMY. John Coulthart
“At the time this meeting of literary and Avant Garde musical culture didn’t seem so surprising but 24 years on it seems increasingly unique and unrepeatable. Despite Burroughs’ considerable influence, the events in London and Manchester weren’t the inspirational moment that the organisers and participants might have wished as the 1980s turned out to be a decade of pop trivia and much political and cultural conservatism.“
BRIAN ARNOLD
“I got into the arts, at least in part, in an attempt to avoid institutional control of my life.”
WHAT DO PHOTOGRAPHS DO
The making and remaking of museum cultures
Edited by Elizabeth Edwards and Ella Ravilious.
STANDARDS MANUAL
Exceptional books no one else would make.
CARGO COLLECTIVE SITES & BOOKS
IN SUPPORT OF PRINTED MATTER
NY BOOK FAIR.
“The implication here — sites and books (rather than sites or books or this or that —but this and that) without sanctimony, is a kind of plain, anti-monoculture, anti-corporate gesture. A shorthand message of support and general call-out for all that is poly and multi (whether in method or substance) — the multifaceted, the multicultural, the polymorphous, the versatile, the collaborative, the multi-situational, the poetic. As well, it is a mild but sincere refutation against all that is mono and self-centred — the monopolies, the mono-perspectives, the single-channels, the walled gardens, the unimaginative, the cynically refined, the ferociously quixotic.”
HELICON SOFT
Astonishing software innovating image capture with comparison to the OGs of early photographic development. Made by these people under extreme conditions.
“Our company is based in Ukraine. Our city of Kharkiv is located very close to the Russian border, just about 30 km away. So, we were one of the first cities to be woken up in the middle of the night by Russian troops and missiles on February 24. Since then, Kharkiv has been under constant bombing. We know about all the horrors of this surreal and unfair war first-hand. We were the ones to hide our kids and sleep in underground shelters, to run for medicine and food in between rocket attacks and to run for life with kids, parents and a backpack leaving everything behind.
Knowing the real needs and understanding the problems, we’ve made a short list of mid-size volunteer groups that do the real and the right thing. Those are not the largest ones, not the state-owned ones, but people who we know taking real actions and who need money to make it.” www.heliconsoft.com/supportukraine/
The Rudimentary History Of Uneasy Listening. Dave Henderson reflects on a cultural fracture in space time.
“ OUTSIDERS, LOCKED INSIDE.
NON-MUSICIANS MAKING MUSIC. “
NON-MUSICIANS MAKING MUSIC. “
QUITTING YOUR DAY JOB : CHAUNCEY HARE’S PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK - Brian Arnold.
“More and more the language of academia incorporates the language of business, with obsessions about assessment, outcomes, and other quantifiers becoming an ever-increasing part of education. Financial and pedagogical hierarchies between programs and departments are rife, each institution using their resources in an attempt to corner a particular discipline (perhaps better to say market). Nothing seems different to me in the art world, though perhaps the hierarchies are more rigid, as people jockey for position and attempt to claw their way to the top, rarely reaching down to help others attempting to do the same. Addressing the evolution of the art world into the 21st century, photographer Robert Adams identified an ailment he coined “economic censorship” as a growing trend in which the value of creative work is determined by its retail potential.”
THE FINAL ACADEMY. John Coulthart
“At the time this meeting of literary and Avant Garde musical culture didn’t seem so surprising but 24 years on it seems increasingly unique and unrepeatable. Despite Burroughs’ considerable influence, the events in London and Manchester weren’t the inspirational moment that the organisers and participants might have wished as the 1980s turned out to be a decade of pop trivia and much political and cultural conservatism.“
BRIAN ARNOLD
“I got into the arts, at least in part, in an attempt to avoid institutional control of my life.”
WHAT DO PHOTOGRAPHS DO
The making and remaking of museum cultures
Edited by Elizabeth Edwards and Ella Ravilious.
STANDARDS MANUAL
Exceptional books no one else would make.
CARGO COLLECTIVE SITES & BOOKS
IN SUPPORT OF PRINTED MATTER
NY BOOK FAIR.
“The implication here — sites and books (rather than sites or books or this or that —but this and that) without sanctimony, is a kind of plain, anti-monoculture, anti-corporate gesture. A shorthand message of support and general call-out for all that is poly and multi (whether in method or substance) — the multifaceted, the multicultural, the polymorphous, the versatile, the collaborative, the multi-situational, the poetic. As well, it is a mild but sincere refutation against all that is mono and self-centred — the monopolies, the mono-perspectives, the single-channels, the walled gardens, the unimaginative, the cynically refined, the ferociously quixotic.”
HELICON SOFT
Astonishing software innovating image capture with comparison to the OGs of early photographic development. Made by these people under extreme conditions.
“Our company is based in Ukraine. Our city of Kharkiv is located very close to the Russian border, just about 30 km away. So, we were one of the first cities to be woken up in the middle of the night by Russian troops and missiles on February 24. Since then, Kharkiv has been under constant bombing. We know about all the horrors of this surreal and unfair war first-hand. We were the ones to hide our kids and sleep in underground shelters, to run for medicine and food in between rocket attacks and to run for life with kids, parents and a backpack leaving everything behind.
Knowing the real needs and understanding the problems, we’ve made a short list of mid-size volunteer groups that do the real and the right thing. Those are not the largest ones, not the state-owned ones, but people who we know taking real actions and who need money to make it.” www.heliconsoft.com/supportukraine/