Summary
The History of the World is a graphic and textual portrayal of the history, influence and context for acid house and brass band music. Adopting the form of a flow diagram, it suggests that there are social and political echoes and points of confluence between these two musical movements that date from different eras; acid house being a post-industrial movement of the late twentieth century, and the brass band movement dating from the industrial era of the nineteenth century.
The work is produced by projecting the image onto a white wall, drawing accurately round the letters and arrows of the design, using a sharp HB pencil, before then painting in the letters using matt black acrylic paint. What looks like a casually handwritten flow diagram is something that has been carefully composed, drawn and painted. Although the wall drawing can be any size, the artist has specified that it should induce a sense of involvement in the viewer: a size of four metres wide is recognized as optimum, though it can be larger depending on the context… (read more)
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