FLASH BANG ARCHIVE

FLASH BANG is an archive devoted to the collection and preservation of 1960s and 1970s subcultural movements. The archive holds clothing, ephemera, photographs, and artwork.

Exhibition

Artifacts from the archive and work made from facsimiles of source material were shown in a group exhibition in March 2024 called “A faint annotation”. The installation presents an alternative timeline of glam rock that centers the underground art scene of early 1970s NYC. The work examined the archivist’s place within not just the collection, but within public perceptions of cultural timelines at large.

Artist Book

Machine-printed, hand-bound in an edition of 7

FLASH BANG (the book) is a collection of original writings and archival material, compiled into a 60-page publication. The book features personal essays on the politics of archives and the process of exhibiting an “incomplete” history, and research essays on the history of glam rock, the New York art underground, and Lisa Robinson’s CREEM column, “Eleganza”. Interspersed are photos of ephemera from the FLASH BANG archive, documentation of the exhibition, and images of important subjects in the research.