"The assignment for today, though, is to look at exemplary artistic strategies of the 80s that altered the rules of the game, or tried to. In the popular imagination it’s a period that represents avarice, careerism, selfishness – the oft-quoted “greed is good.” And yet, because of a deadly spectre (which some saw as divine retribution), an articulation of rage, and the prospect of mutual selfdestruction that weighed on a generation, we witnessed a banding-together, people organising themselves with a common purpose..."