Mark LECKEY / 1999 / digital / 11min. (UK)
For FIORUCCI MADE ME HARDCORE Leckey collected recorded moments of youth from three decades and compiled the material into his own shrine of fashion, music, and club culture. The memories of other people give expression to the nostalgia for the days of his own youth: “For me, the title FIORUCCI MADE ME HARDCORE means this investment of energy into something as kitschy and crassly commercial as a fleetingly fashionable pair of jeans – Fiorucci had such a moment in the late 1970s – and this belief in the brand, that somehow symbolizes a ‘way of life’, becomes something almost sacred.” (M.L.)
Born in 1964 in Birkenhead, England, and currently lives and works in London. He studied at Newcastle Polytechnic, Fine Art at Goldsmiths, London, and served as professor of film studies at the Städelschule Frankfurt am Main from 2005 to 2009. He exhibited in the 1990 at the New Contemporaries exhibition at the ICA. In 2004, he participated in Manifesta 5, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art. In 2006 he participated in the Tate Triennial and his works are held in the collections of the Tate and the Centre Pompidou among other institutions and prestigious private collections. In 2008 he won the Turner Prize.