FROM Situationism to Beat to Punk, Eyes For Blowing Up Bridges unites a group of remarkable radical artists, poets, writers and activists who initiated, perpetrated and influenced a range of seminal post-war alternative movements.

Presenting rarely exhibited material – including cut-ups, film, video, sound and slide, as well as self-published books, pamphlets, anarchist propaganda, punk ephemera and graphics – the exhibition examines the creative interplay between William Burroughs, Guy Debord, Asger Jorn, Alexander Trocchi and King Mob, and their collective influence on Malcolm McLaren in his endeavours to disrupt the cultural and social status quo from the 1960s to his premature death in 2010.

Eyes For Blowing Up Bridges: Joining the dots from the Situationist International to Malcolm McLaren is running at Southampton's John Hansard Gallery until November 14.

To coincide with the exhibition Eyes for Blowing up Bridges, and as part of Southampton Film Week, Malcolm McLaren Night at The Stage Door gives the unique opportunity to watch films made by McLaren which reflect his life-long obsession with art, music, fashion and pop culture.

A provocative and at times controversial figure, McLaren’s influence throughout the 1970s and beyond cannot be underestimated. From his management of bands such as Sex Pistols, New York Dolls, Adam and the Ants, Bow Wow Wow, and the creation of SEX (the shop he established in the King’s Road with Vivienne Westwood in the early 1970s), McLaren continued to be an incredible innovator who went onto experiment with new musical forms in the early 1980s. His seminal album Duck Rock in 1983 was a pivotal moment that brought hip-hop to a much wider audience and paved the way for much of the experimental mixing of musical styles that were so influential in the 1980s.

The two films that are being shown as part of 'Malcolm McLaren' Night are Paris and Duck Rock. Both are fantastic examples of his maverick style of mixing and reshaping existing material into new and exciting experiences. Also included on the night will be The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, a 1980 British mockumentary film directed by Julien Temple and produced by Don Boyd and Jeremy Thomas centering on the British punk rock band Sex Pistols and, most prominently, their manager Malcolm McLaren.

The evening will be introduced by Paul Gorman, co-curator with David Thorp of Eyes for Blowing up Bridges. Gorman is a writer, journalist and social commentator who knew McLaren and is currently working on a Malcolm McLaren biography. His past books, writings and curatorial projects have centred on pop culture, fashion and music, including: The Look: Adventures in Pop & Rock Fashion, and book collaborations with Goldie, UB40 and Boy George. He has published extensively on the radical graphic artist Barney Bubbles, edited and created the format for the exhaustive Any Day Now: David Bowie The London Years, and has most recently edited the Thames and Hudson artist monograph Derek Boshier: Re-think/Re-Entry.

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