Mitch Speed in Conversation with Mark Leckey

This special screening and discussion of Mark Leckey’s video work Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore(1999) marks the publication of the latest One Work title by Mitch Speed. Produced in 1999, Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore draws on archival footage to examine shifts in dance and street culture from the late 1960s through to the late 1980s. Moving between homage and social critique, between personal and collective memory, between ecstasy and constraint, this cult work highlights the political complexities of class and youth in twentieth-century Britain. Following the screening, Leckey will be in conversation with Speed to discuss the work’s relation to memory, nostalgia and melancholy.

Mitch Speed in Conversation with Mark Leckey
Friday 15 November 2019, 18:30–20:00
Tate Britain
Millbank
London
SW1P 4RG

Tickets: £12 (concessions £8). To purchase tickets please visit the Tate website. After the event copies of the book will be available to purchase and have signed by Speed and Leckey.

This event is produced in collaboration with the Tate Britain and forms one public element of the One Work publication series, focusing on the artworks that have significantly shaped the way we understand art and its history. The One Work series is distributed by The MIT Press.

Image: Mark Leckey, Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, 1999, still. Courtesy the artist and Cabinet Gallery, London