Here’s something good for the music & art lovers out there.

Wandsworth Council’s Pump House Gallery is delighted to present the first institutional solo exhibition by London based visual artist Anneke Kampman. Kampman works with text, music and moving-image to examine the ways the culture industry produces ‘personality’ for purposes of profit. In Labour’s Own Sounding Ideal, she presents ongoing research that investigates the social and artistic functions of the music-video form and its modes of production.

Across the exhibition, works trace the historical development of the music video, from the birth of MTV in 1981 to its present-day YouTube ubiquity. This now pervasive form is used as a framework to consider broader concerns with standardisation, artistic autonomy and political economy.

A web archive documents the music video’s development across shifting political, technological and economic conditions. In doing so the music video is employed as a lens through which to address changing concerns of everyday life. In addition to its archive, Labour’s Own Sounding Ideal features an integral
video work.

The exhibition runs from 23^rd January until 31^st March and entry is free.