Punk Turns 30, the 20-year traveling photo exhibit, celebrates punk turning 50 with REtroSPECT, an immersive exhibit and installation program.
REtroSPECT rants, raves, and remembers a past you may have been part of or wished you could have lived through. It delivers the immediacy of the images and music together with the storytelling.
REtroSPECT immerses you right into the mosh pit.
REtroSPECT gives context to disparate stories and connects RASHOMON-like dots and juxtapositions found in the photographic images and collected ephemera of the Punk Turns 30 collection.
REtroSPECT pays RESPECT to cultural history.
REtroSPECT shows how to RESPECT cultural history.
Watch the story about Theresa's punk photos on NewsChannel5
Theresa Kereakes, a photographer, filmmaker, and cultural historian built Punk Turns 30 from a photo and storytelling blog into an immense visual archive of late 20th century pop culture, created and collected during the 1970s. The archive of her photographic work has already laid the visual foundation of our collective punk rock memory and continues to serve as one of the acknowledged resources of the birth of Los Angeles punk.
The Crown Jewel in this collection is the fanzine LOBOTOMY, The Brainless Magazine, which she co-founded and co-published. Her archive includes punk flyers, works of literature, art, recordings on vinyl and cassette, film and videotape in multiple formats, showcasing her wide-ranging accomplishments and the influence her corner of the punk rock niche had on the rest of the world.
She has mounted a never-ending series of traveling punk themed exhibitions since 2005, with an annual Punk Rock Day of the Dead/Ghost Dance Party in Pittsburgh, PA.
Theresa created Punk Turns 30 Books in 2025 to share photographic elements of the archive. Punk Turns 30 Books publishes single-subject photobooks in zine form, curating a journey through the story arc of punk in Los Angeles as well as Theresa’s body of photography work. Each exhibit/installation program guide is published as a photozine for the event, and for serving pop culture history.
REtroSPECT stands on its own, but is also a companion piece to the forthcoming memoir, ADVENTURES OF AN UNCHAPERONED TEENAGED GIRL
- Is not analysis
- It is Witness
- It is recollection for your consideration
- It is evidence
- It is the oral history of one person punctuated by her photographic documentation of many persons
No comments:
Post a Comment