Jan Philipzen: Rave Death Convention

Started as a visual diary, Ravedeath Convention soon grew into a hybrid of autobiography and fiction. While love, joy and friendship are explored, violence and excess come about too, often captured only as traces and symptoms. A collision of different, occasionally mismatched, cultural symbols stresses the all-embracing blend of subcultres as a fundamental feature of our times.

The first pictures taken at age thirteen, this series of black and white images is the edit of a continuous process of photographing, revisiting and reworking over a span of ten years. In the crippled prints the physical presence of body and photograph merge, celebrating human imperfection. The title references Tim Hecker’s album ‘Ravedeath,1972’.

 

Title: Rave Death Convention
Publisher: Art Paper Editions, 2020
Author: Jan Philipzen
Photographer: Jan Philipzen
Graphic Design: -
Format: Softcover
Size: 26 x 21 cm, 176 pages
ISBN: 9789493146525
Edition: -