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Major Three-Part Video Installation by British Artist Phil Collins - Artdaily.org

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DALLAS, TX.- This fall the Dallas Museum of Art will premiere the final installment of British artist Phil Collins’s completed three-part video project “the world won’t listen.” Filmed in Colombia, Turkey, and Indonesia, the trilogy features fans of the influential British indie-rock band The Smiths singing karaoke tracks from their 1987 hit album “The World Won’t Listen.” The Dallas exhibition, which will also include letters that Morrissey, the band’s iconic lead singer, wrote as a teenager to London music weeklies, marks the first-ever public presentation of the completed trilogy.
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He first began work on “the world won’t listen” in 2004, shooting the first chapter of the monumental video trilogy in Bogotá, Colombia. The second part took place in Istanbul, Turkey, and was included in the 9th International Istanbul Biennial; and the third, which will be on view for the first time in Dallas, was filmed in Jakarta, Indonesia.

For each iteration, Collins spent over two months researching the project, interviewing, building stages, and filming. Collins appeared on the radio, visited dance clubs, and posted flyers throughout the cities inviting “the shy, dissatisfied, the shower superstar, and anyone who has wanted to be someone else for a night” to come sing karaoke in front of his video camera. The resulting video captures these Smiths fans, an almost cult-like worldwide phenomenon, as they sing their favorite angst-ridden, mournful lyrics by the band’s charismatic singer Morrissey.
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Exhibition Catalogue - The accompanying 128-page illustrated exhibition catalogue will offer a cross-disciplinary, critical look at Collins’s work, furthering scholarship in the fields of popular music, cultural studies and art history. It will include essays by British music critic Simon Reynolds on The Smiths’ and Morrissey’s seductive power; Bruce Hainley, Associate Director of Graduate Studies in Criticism and Theory at Art Center College of Design, on the political implications of “the world won’t listen”; Liz Kotz, Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside, on Collins’s project within the context of the history of art and inter-media aesthetic practices; and exhibition curator Suzanne Weaver in conversation with the artist on his background, motivating ideas and artistic process.

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• "The World Won't Listen" karaoke project - Find your 15 minutes as a Smith (Cork, Ireland, July 4, 5 - Aug. 16, 2005
• "El Mundo no Escuchara" - Smiths based art installation - Jan. 21, 2006