Mark Leckey

I do have a soft spot for the texture and feel of old VHS footage. Another inspiring piece of work originating on VHS is Fiorucci Made me Hardcore, Mark Leckey’s mesmerising found footage collage of subcultures that takes in everything from 70’s Northern soul to 90’s hardcore rave.

Leckey had this to say about it’s look:

It’s VHS so it’s analogue, so it’s got this particular grain to it, this feel, that I think has been fetishised. Marshall McLuhan said in the 70’s ‘Poor TV definition demands more activity from the viewer, who ends up investing the image with a peculiar vitality.’ I think that’s how Fiorucci works, because you can’t quite see it so you look harder. There’s something very compelling about that fuzz of VHS. It pulls you in, but it’s always pushing you out at the same time. It’s like a faded wallpaper, the graphic intensity is lost, but there’s something compelling and seductive about that.

Mark Leckey// Fiorucci Made me Hardcore