Join us to celebrate Spike’s 80s issue!

"Amore 80"

with

DJ Willie Burns

Pierogi

Contributions by Fiona Duncan, Liam Gillick, Dean Kissick, Ella Plevin, Natasha Stagg & more

"There is no such thing as society," Margaret Thatcher said in 1987. The dismantling of the welfare state, careerism, selfishness and lobby renovations. A rabid free-for-all for those with something; a big betrayal for those who would be left with nothing. It ushered in the political predicament we are still mired in today. But there was also a growing sense of community. In England workers took to the streets, in New York there were protests against the cynicism of the government's response to the AIDS crisis. And for part of the art world, political collective engagement was more important than the market. This issue is about the 80s.

With contributions by Liam Gillick on London in the 1980s, an interview with Gran Gury by Alison Gingeras & Jamieson Webster, Natasha Stagg on the 80s style, Bob Nickas on protest art and activism, Helene Winer on the New York art scene in the 80s, Daniel Keller on blockhain art start-ups, Sarah Morris and Thaddaeus Ropac on a 1989 show curated by Christian Leigh, Pippa Garner interviewed by Fiona Duncan, Ericka Beckman on her favourite artists, Barbara Casavecchia on Philippe Thomas, Dean Kissick on i-D & The Face, The Vienna Art Scene, Joanna Fiduccia on Gretchen Bender, Rosemarie Trockel, Patrick Bateman & much more...