Electric Citizen

The inclination to ‘make work’ comes from multiple stimuli that include existing interests and new discoveries as well as life events in both personal and public contexts. They coalesce to form a kind of Entangled History that attempts to position these points of interest relative to one-another. The catalyst in this case came from an interest in the song Death of an Electric Citizen by The Edgar Broughton band from 1969. Radical hippies and social agitators with communist leanings they contributed to the counter culture of that era. They were one of the few bands that continued to tour the north of Ireland after the ‘troubles’ kicked off. Overlapped with, and informed by an interest in aspects of various histories including art; a layman’s view of science and other areas of interest the work look in different directions to probe connections.

Stop go, Stop go, Stop go, Stop go,
You know you can go
With a black bone
And the pleasance of, and the pleasance of, denial
And that’s just about the death of a, like I mean
Electric citizen

From Death of an Electric Citizen, 1969 Edgar Broughton Band