Performa 13 celebrates Duck Rock’s 30th anniversary: Marclay presents McLaren Award + Vinyl Factory releases special white vinyl 7″
This year’s presentation of the Malcolm McLaren Award at the finale of performance arts biennale Performa will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the iconoclast’s game-changing LP Duck Rock.
Hosted by eminent writer Glenn O’Brien and McLaren’s widow Young Kim, the event on Sunday will culminate in the presentation of the award by sound artist Christian Marclay to the artist under 40 who has demonstrated “the most innovative and thought-provoking performance” during Performa’s three-week run.
Designed by Marc Newson, the Malcolm McLaren Award was inaugurated at the last Performa in 2011, where it was presented by the late Lou Reed.
//McLaren with Duck Rocker, NYC, April 1983. © Bob Gruen/www.bobgruen.com//
//Labels, limited edition white vinyl Duck Rock 7" single//
This year’s event is being marked by a limited edition pressing of a white vinyl 7″ single featuring McLaren talking about the making of the album from Britain’s The Vinyl Factory, which will reissue Duck Rock in its entirety next year.
On Sunday there will also be a rare screening of the ground-breaking long-form Duck Rock video McLaren produced to accompany the album’s release in 1983.
//”The mood of the populace is rising up against the bland, boring, redundant sounds of the modern world”; McLaren’s introduction to the Duck Rock video with D’Ya Like Scratchin’//
Read about Christian Marclay’s recently-reissued sound collage Groove here.