Matt Henry Murder a Go-Go Somewhere in the mutinous haze of 1960’s America, a glamorous band of dancing militants dubbed the ‘Go-Go Gang’ is hard at work seducing and murde…
Somewhere in the mutinous haze of 1960’s America, a glamorous band of dancing militants dubbed the ‘Go-Go Gang’ is hard at work seducing and murdering chemical company executives in the name of environmental justice. This is Murder a Go-Go; a 16-image fictional series that I hoped would twin the sexualised and homicidal flavours of 1960’s explotation cinema with the rapidly emerging social movements of the time.
Repurposing images depicting American life from 1964-74, this conceptual series challenges the viewer to link together the nation’s cultural history and the photographs’ intriguing yet disjointed visual narrative
Taken from a number of projects all focusing on the period 1964-1974, these images form a narrative of American life during this period. Part of the pleasure of working with fragments of narrative and their natural ambiguities is the ability to re-purpose imagery for something new.
