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Punk Archives in 'Rock My Religion:The Crossroads Between the Visual Arts and Rock 1956-2006'

Fallows curated a section containing over seventy pieces of archival graphic materials, clothing and ephemera in the exhibition Rock My Religion: The Crossroads Between the Visual Arts and Rock 1956-2006 (cur. Panera, J.), Domus Artium 02, Centre of Contemporary Art, Salamanca, Spain. Fallows’ curatorial research aimed to make formal and conceptual connections between Punk and Dada in the twentieth-century in the context of the exhibition which aimed to explore the broader cultural and historical contexts of rock music via the visual arts. Fallows previously curated over seventy archival pieces in Punk: Art, Style, Revolt (cur. Miessgang, T.), Kunsthalle Vienna (16.05.08-07.09.08) which aimed to make formal and conceptual connections between parallel creative activities in the cities of London, Berlin and New York. Fallows’ research and collaborations in the field of art and popular culture/counterculture resulted in LJMU’s acquisition of England’s Dreaming: The Jon Savage Archive (the largest Punk archive in the world) and The Situationist International: John McCready Archive. Since 2008, Fallows, as curator and research consultant to the archives, has researched thematic elements and explored the curatorial possibilities of selected materials in a variety of contexts for presentation in a series of exhibitions where they have been seen by over 200,000 people across eight countries. Exhibition collaborations incorporating the curated archival materials include: EuroPunk (cur. De Chassey), Villa Medici, French Academy in Rome (2101/11-20/03/11); MAMCO, Geneva (08/06/11-18/09/11); B.P.S.22 Charleroi (22/10/11-22/01/12); and Cité de la Musique, Paris (14/10/13-19/01/14). Fallows contributed archive related text in EuroPunk (cat. Drago, Rome, 1st edn. 2011, revised 2nd edn. 2013); and in Punk: An Aesthetic (Ed. Kugelberg, J., Rizzoli, 2012). Related research by Fallows ‘The Art of the Rockers’ Jacket’, introduction/essay, archival images and interviews, was published in Pride and Glory: The Art of the Rockers’ Jacket (Friedrichs, H.A.), Daab, Cologne. (2012 and Ltd. Edition 2013).