BILL DRUMMOND Lecture at Spoiler, Vienna 2002 – Robert Jelinek (Ed.)
BILL DRUMMOND Lecture at Spoiler, Vienna 2002 – Robert Jelinek (Ed.)
“When
it comes to pop music, conceptual art,
audacious positioning, and fierce artistic independence, there is
simply no way around Bill Drummond. The KLF, The Timelords,
The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (J.A.M.S.), The K Foundation, The 2K,
K2 Plant Hire Ltd. – these were all projects that aimed to attack
established pop practices by means of easily-acquired sampling
technology. Bill ceased being interested in the pop business a
long time ago. Nonetheless, music is still at the centre of his
current endeavours. The present book is a summary of his recorded
lecture at Spoiler, MuseumsQuartier Wien on 31 October 2002, which
for the past thirteen years has been available only as a single-copy
library DVD. Despite the fact that Bill is loath to look back at the
past and always directs his focus to the here and now, or rather
because of this, I deemed it necessary to highlight his vast artistic
range, development, and process of the last thirty years by means of
this contemporary document and to present it to a younger generation.
For the concept of time plays a special role in Drummond's work.
Whether as The Timelords, or in songs like 'What Time is Love?' or '3
A.M. Eternal,' or via metaphorical numbers like 23, 33 ⅓, or
45, or his current World Tour 2014-2025 Bill has always thought,
planned, acted, and reacted in structural time periods”. Robert
Jelinek
DER KONTERFEI 011 / Paperback / English / 50 pages / Limited edition of 300 copies / ISBN 978-3-903043-00-8 / Release Date: April 2015