Jack Pryce *1990 in Shrewsbury (UK). Lives and works in Zurich/Lucerne (CH) jack.a.pryce@pm.me Education 2018-2021 BFA (Hons), ZHdK, Zurich Solo Shows 2021 Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, made me hardcore. Zurich 2020 no hot water. the boiler is broken. Body Archive Project, Zurich Group Shows 2022 (upcoming) Werkschau, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich 2022 Werk- und Auslandatelier-Stipendien, Helmhaus, Zurich 2021 Fake Quotes and Sitting Ducks, mal:mal, Berne 2021 Černý bávo bílej boomer, GAMPA, Pardubice, Czech Republic 2020 Summer Of Suspense, Kunsthalle Zurich 2018 House Warming, Hamlet, Zurich 2016 Wear War, ES16, Zurich 2016 Art Looks Better With Us, A.C. Kupper Modern, Zurich Collections Helvetia Art Collection Screenings 2019 Telford New Town - Wolverhampton, To Places, Zurich 2018 Midland Dreaming, When the shadow of the earth covers the moon, Zurich Readings 2021 100 Years Pati Hill, Kunsthalle Zürich 2020 books & records live, Ozelot Ltd., Zurich Publications 2018 Up There In Orbit, Neuer Kunst und Medien Verlag, Zurich 2018 Time Was, Neuer Kunst und Medien Verlag, Zurich 2015 CSL for the exhibiton <3, Up State, Zurich
Selected works 2019–2022
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Curatorial Projects @marytwo 2022 The Shop; Cory Arcangel, John M. Armleder, Blanca Bianchi, Claudia Bitran, Mattia Comuzzi, Salomé Engel, Rachel Grobstein, Miriam Laura Leonardi, Mickry3, Jung Hyun Nam, Fabio Prosdocimi, Mark Siumin, Doris Dehan Son 2022 40 Days Work @Exquisite Corpse 2021 Eau Salon; Orit Gat, Yara Durac Gisler, Martin Jaeggi, Judith Keller, Shamiran Istifan & Lhaga Koondhor, Nils Amadeus Lange, Billy Morgan, Tobias Spichtig
FIORUCCI MADE ME HARDCORE, MADE ME HARDCORE Solo Show in a make-shift location, Zurich, 2021
Jack Pryce’s exhibition Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, made me hardcore exemplifies an obssesive collecting behaviour towards the original soundtrack of Mark Leckey’s video artwork “Fiorucci Made Me Hard-
core”. Each Discogs acquisition is meticulously documented, illustrating the artist’s fragmentary memories and imaginings of a time in which
he never actively participated, but massively constructed his and the British identity.
Discogs is a music meta-database that also offers a booming secondary market. In this reseller ecosystem, Pryce searches for, buys and
evaluates his acquisitions in an iterative process - in the latter, the performative act of this process becomes obvious and thus also exposed in an appropriated form of art mediation as an aluminium sign - “10/10 FAST AND SAFE! Thank You xx”
Jack Pryce’s art practice is characterised by an associative, multimedia
approach. The gesture of the ready-made underlies both the staging of
the records and the enclosing reference construct of the object. This referential construct makes use of the claim to negotiate/confront his
own British/Swiss class structure, to reflect on the felt private intimacy/ obsession in social/virtual spaces and to make this visible by means of coded ready-mades.
The video artwork Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore is a compilation of found footage from British dance floors documenting the British underground club scene from Northern Soul in the 1970s to the rave scene of the early 1990s. Fiorucci is essentially a ghost film; one that overwrites the memories of these imagined communal moments through the analogue format of VHS, carrying them away from the previous generations’ own
nostalgic bodies and situating them ghostly in the limbo of generations to come.
- Nicola Kazimir
Twenty Six Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore LP’s, 31.3 × 31.5 cm Twenty Six signs, compiled discogs.com screenshots, inkjet, aluminium, 10 × 13 cm Exhibition View Photos by John Patrick Walder
11 BOOKS RECOMMENDED BY THE ARTIST Installation View for Fake Quotes and Sitting Ducks at mal:mal in Berne. 2021
Books detatched from collection and placed on custom pedestals i.e. books on plinths.
top left: EMIN, Tracey: Strangeland, 2005/2021 107.6 × 20.4 × 13.5 cm above: WAIDNER, Isabel: Sterling Karat Gold, 2021/2021 108.6 × 19.8 × 12.8 cm left: FILIPOVIC, Elena (ed.): The Artist As Curator: An Anthology, 2017 108.3 × 28 × 21 cm (all) book, custom wood pedestal
Exhibition View photos by Flavio Karrer
above: Stone Island: Storia, 2020 106.8 × 32.8 × 24.8 cm top right: THOMPSON, Mayo: Art, Mystery, 2018 108.3 × 19.1 × 12.1 cm bottom right: FOSTER, Joe: Shoe Maker, 2020 107 × 24 × 16 cm other titles: HORNBY, Nick: Fever Pitch, 1996 (1992) 108.4 × 19.8 × 12.9 cm Oliver Payne & Nick Relph, Serpentine Gallery, Kunsthalle Zürich Exhibition Catalog, 2004 107.3 × 22 × 16 cm HOLDER, Julian – PARISSIEN, Steven: The Architecture of British Transport in the Twentieth Century, 2004 107.4 × 26.1 × 18.7 cm GANDER, Ryan: Fieldwork, The Complete Reader, 2016 106.6 × 28.5 × 22 cm SPEED, Mitch: Mark Leckey Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, 2019 108.9 × 21 × 14.8 cm (all) book, custom wood pedestal
I DON’T WASTE MY EVENINGS, 2021 (ONGOING) FIORUCCI MADE ME HARDCORE, MADE ME HARDCORE, 2021 A DECENT PAIR OF TRAINERS, 2021 Installation at Zurich University of the Arts, Diploma 2021
Installation View photos by Conradin Frei
I don’t waste my evenings, 2021 (ongoing) mixed media, dimensions variable, *see index for content click here for installation walk through
INDEX - i don’t waste my evenings, 2021 books
artworks
ALBERS, Josef: Interaction of Color, 2013 (1963) BACHELARD, Gaston: The Poetics of Space, 2014 (1964) BAKER, Chris: Sunday League, 2016 BUCHMANN, Sabeth – LAFER, Ilse – RUHM, Constanze: Putting Rehearsals to the Test, 2016 BURN, Gordon: Sex & Violence, Death & Silence, 2009 BUTIN, Hubertus: Begriffslexikon zur zeitgenössischen Kunst, 2014 BUTT, Gavin – ESHUN, Kodwo – FISHER, Mark: Post Punk Then And Now, 2016 DELLER, Jeremy: Procession, 2010 DETTERER, Gabriele and NANNUCCI, Maurizio: Artist-Run Spaces, 2012 EDWARDS, Sean: Undo Things Done, 2019 EMIN, Tracey: Strangeland, 2005 EVANS, David: Appropriation, 2009 FOSTER, Joe: Shoe Maker, 2020 FOX, Charlie: The Young Monster, 2020 (2017) GILBERT, Annette: Publishing as Artistic Practice, 2016 Douglas Gordon, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Zürich Exhibition Catalog, 1996 GRIFFIN, Brian: Copyright 1978 GUYTON, Wade: Das New Yorker Atelier, Abridged, 2017 HANCOX, Dan: Inner City Pressue The Story of Grime, 2019 (2018) HERTZ, Richard: Jack Goldstein and the CalArts Mafia, 2013 (2003) HOFFMANN, Jens: The Studio, 2012 HOLDER, Julian and PARISSIEN, Steven: The Architecture of British Transport in the Twentieth Century, 2004 HOOKS, Bell: all about love, 2001 HORNBY, Nick: Fever Pitch, 1996 (1992) HUNGERBÜHLER, Ramon: Pensieri Passano Per Genova, 2019 Images, Fridericianum Kassel Group Show Exhibition Catalog, 2016 Derek Jarman, Garden Museum Exhibition Catalog, 2020 KEENE, John: Counter Narratives, 2020 (2015) Sarah Lucas, Kunsthalle Zürich, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Tate Liverpool Exhibition Catalog, 2005 LYNCH, David and McKENNA, Kristien: Room to Dream, 2019 (2018) MACEY, David: Dictionary of Critical Theory, 2000 McDONOUGH, Tom: Boredom, 2017 Scott Myles, Kunsthalle Zürich Exhibition Catalog, 2005 NOBLE, Paul – OWEN, Peter – HALE, Matt: City Racing, 2002 OWENS, Susan: Spirit of Place, 2020 PAYNE, Oliver and RELPH, Nick: Taschen, 2004 Oliver Payne & Nick Relph, Serpentine Gallery, Kunsthalle Zürich Exhibition Catalog, 2004 PRINCE, Richard: Collected Writings, 2011 REBENTISCH, Juliane: Aesthetics of Installation Art, 2012 RICHARD, Sophie: Unconcealed, 2010 (2009) RIDEAL, Liz: How to read paintings, 2015 (2014) ROBILLIARD, David: Swallowing Helmets, 1987 ROTH, Ariane and SCHUTZ, Marina: The Dynamic Library, 2015 RUSCHA, Ed: Crackers, 1969 RUSSELL, John: Doggo, 2017 RUSSO, Camila: The Infinite Machine, 2020 SCHLEJDAHL, Peter: Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 2020 SILLMAN, Amy: Faux Pas, 2020 STILES, Kristine and SELZ, Peter: Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art, 2012 Stone Island: Storia, 2020 Veli & Amos: This is Not A Commercial, 2020 WAIDNER, Isabel: We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff, 2019 ZOBERNIG, Heimo: schwarzescafé, 2017
Valentina Demicheli, 4ever liminal, 2019 Ryan Gander, Time would not pass, 2020, Edition 20/20 photocopies from books Marc Camille Chaimowicz, The World Of Interiors, 1995, pp.44-45 Sarah Lucas, Exhibition Catalog 2005, p.56 Michael Riedel, Kunste Zur Text, 2012, p.183 inkjet prints Association Amalgam Mission Statement, 29.7 × 21 cm baked beans close up, 21 × 29.7 cm “everything is fucked” meme, 7.5 × 9.5 cm Exquisite Corpse logo, 8 × 8 cm Grandma with Ramon Hungerbühler face filter, 11.4 × 6.5 cm “laughing shoe” meme, 11.7 × 18.3 cm mud-covered reeboks, 14.2 × 14.7 cm Nike socks and cigarette buds in bin, 19 × 14.3 cm photomontage: baked beans and Nike Total Laser 90 II football boots, 29.7 × 21 cm “quiz show” meme, 8.5 × 12.3 cm “Rodney from Only Fools and Horses” meme, 9 × 9 cm Safari Bookmarks Folder: art_works_exhibitions, 110 A4 pages scrunched up photograph of books that arrived by mail on January 11, 2021 smiling face with tear Emoji, 7.5 × 7.5 cm umbro backpack, 22.4 × 20 cm “walking tree” meme, 10 × 11 cm food & drink cheese & pickle sandwich “This is Jack’s Liverpool Mug” with PG Tips Black Tea Used PG Tips Black Tea Bags Walkers “Ready Salted” crisps clothing Liverpool Home Jersey 19/20, Size Small, “Dream Kid” Printed On Back Sergio Tacchini “Dallas Track Top”, Size Small, Navy/Red/White objects 925 silver skull ring ashtray with 16 cigarette buds a “Build Your Own Brutalist London Barbican Estate Lauderdale Tower” “Born in Darkness” Crystal Stone original press photograph of Douglas Gordon’s video installation Trigger Finger, 1994, documented by John Riddy pair of white cotton gloves
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REEBOKS ARE POETS 2020
click here to listen
audiobook, stereo, 29’ field recordings, found footage, myself reading from “we are made of diamond stuff”, 2019, written by Isabel Waidner
“The Reebok Working Class Plus, sorry, the Reebok Workout Plus, is a classic trainer design connected to a particular British stereotype. (Not even funny, comparing the Msses Thing—the reeboks—to racial stereo-
typing.) (I’m not talking about the reeboks—I’m talking about Reebok classic trainers. Shae is wearing the
things—.) Point being, you read NDN, just standing there. You read working-class, just wearing Reeboks (or not). Just talking. Just going about your life. At best, your resistance defines you: Pico writes Nature Poem. The reeboks are writing Reebook, their first full-length poetry collection. [...]”
5 DECENT PAIRS OF TRAINERS
Intervention at Kunsthalle Zürich for the show Summer of Suspense, 2020
5 pairs of Reebok classic trainers (UK7), dirt, water repellent nano spray photos by Flavio Karrer
no hot water. the boiler is broken. Solo Exhibition at Body Archive Project, 2020
In five circular stages, the expansive installation no hot water.
the boiler is broken. unfolds a cacophony of everyday life. At
first glance, the different artistic approaches (three screens, a living room situation, a pair of Reebok trainers and football
jerseys in a sink) stage moments of a typified pop-cultural
British lifestyle - they are in turn titled front room, double tap, icy whites, dream kid and time was (all 2020). Synoptically, the
installation circles from stage to stage around the problem-
atic fields of representation, the construction of reality and
the spectacular stirring of emotions: Outrage, compassion, shock, scandal, approval, rejection, belonging. In no hot water.
the boiler is broken., what could be defined as economised
emotion unfolds in multimedia. The codes of the everyday life of a so-called British working class are called up within this
circuit, as is the staged monotony of ordinary life, which does
not need to have an illuminating narrative, since it feeds entirely on itself in order to declare the ordinary a spectacle. Those who take a seat on the sofa of the first work front room, who
indulge in this staged as well as performed tele-intimacy and distraction, allow themselves to be seduced and according
to Siegfried Kracauer, “that one does not come to oneself”.
It would be too simple to dismiss no hot water. the boiler is broken. as a milieu show, as a statement and critique of low culture from the perspective of so-called high culture - rather, each stage plays with common codes in order to question and
illuminate buzzwords such as identity and everyday life. [...] click here for the full essay - Alexandra Looser
Exhibition view photos by Flavio Karrer click here for exhibition walkthrough
no hot water. the boiler is broken. 2020 Exhibition view
front room, 2020 Gogglebox S14E15 - Best of 2019 HD-Video, 16:9, colour, stereo, loop, subtitles, 92’, mixed media, installation dimensions variable click here to watch
dream kid, 2020 mixed sports clothing, washing liquid installation dimensions variable
double tap, 2020 HD-Video, 9:16, stereo, loop, 59’ click here to watch
time was, 2020 HD Video, 9:16, sound, loop, 50’ click here to watch
A DECLARATION OF LOVE 2019
The Zurich Caledonian Pipe Band was founded in 2007 in
Gockhausen, Switzerland. At the time several musicians
decided to form a band focusing on having fun with music.
There were 10 members when the band was founded, today there are over 20 active musicians. They play as a full band, a small group or just as soloists at various events.
Performance with The Zurich Caledonian Pipe Band Piper: Ruedi Attinger
Drummer: Martin Attinger
Music selection and arrangement: Jack Pryce click here to watch
text, inkjet, framed, 40 × 30 cm Performance by The Zurich Caledonian Pipe Band, 20‘