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“The club is the haven, a place where you can be who you want to be” says Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller near the start of Everybody in the Place. Dubbed “An Incomplete History of Britain: 1984-1992”, Deller’s film documents a performative, participatory lecture he delivered to a class of 16-year-olds in London about the emergence of acid house music in the UK. Whilst essentially about the past, it holds concerns that are more continual, intending to evoke in his involve the audience an assessment of their shared present through the deconstruction of a past they are too young to have been a part of.”
Read full article on Jeremy Deller’s Everybody in the Place on The Brooklyn Rail’s May 2019 issue, and also online.