{"id":28850,"date":"2013-03-16T14:09:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T13:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=28850"},"modified":"2013-03-16T14:10:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T13:10:44","slug":"mono-kultur-33-kim-gordon-dissonatine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=28850","title":{"rendered":"mono.kultur #33 – KIM GORDON: DISSONATINE."},"content":{"rendered":"

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mono.kultur #33 – KIM GORDON: DISSONATINE.<\/em><\/p>\n

“I hope that it still retains a certain wrongness.”<\/p>\n

Kim Gordon, of course, created a legacy of musical innovation. Thriving on the playgrounds of noise music for more than three decades, her band Sonic Youth stoically pursued their own particularly dirty blend of noise-punk experimental rock music, building along the way not only a league of dedicated followers, but also miraculously achieving mainstream success without ever ceding ground to mediocrity. If anything, Sonic Youth became a household name for integrity and that specific kind of cool in a genre where cool is firmly attached to youth \u2013 which certainly had a lot to do with the detached charisma of Kim Gordon.<\/p>\n

While Sonic Youth\u2019s influence on past and current generations of experimental and punk music is undisputed, Kim Gordon\u2019s role as a female figurehead in music and also in the visual arts might be a more complex one, based on the highly personal pursuit of her diverse interests without, unlike so many of today’s pop stars, any discernible strategy or intentional provocation. Instead, it seems to be Gordon’s unfailing belief in subculture and staying true to herself that over the years gave her a voice that would be heard clearly even within mainstream culture.<\/p>\n

While, for personal reasons, the future of Sonic Youth remains uncertain, Kim Gordon shows no signs of standing still, returning to her beginnings as a fine artist and pursuing her fascination with noise, in sound and on canvas.<\/p>\n

With mono.kultur, Kim Gordon talked about the vulnerability of male rock stars, the myths of New York and why fine art was her first love.<\/p>\n

True to Kim Gordon’s DIY philosphy, the issue is somewhat of a treasure chest filled with new and old artwork by Kim Gordon, coming in a set of loose sheets and cards in varying sizes and printed on no less than five different paper stocks, all held together by the most basic commodity of all: the good old rubber band.<\/p>\n

Spring 2013
\nInterview by Fiona McGovern
\nArtwork by Kim Gordon
\nDesign by Willem Stratmann \/ Studio Anti<\/p>\n

Price: 5\u20ac<\/p>\n

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