Lecture date: 2000-05-23
Mark Fisher studied at the AA from 1965 to 1971, during which time he experimented with self-articulating inflatables and portable structures. He taught at the AA in the mid-1970s, before moving to full-time set design for discos in the 1980s and rock shows in the 1990s. He has gained an international reputation for his spectacular installations for rock concerts, including The Wall for Pink Floyd, Zoo TV for U2, and a collaboration with Peter Gabriel for the opening night of the Millennium Dome. The stadium rock sets were designed to elicit a mass tribal response to the presence of the singer on stage. His Rolling Stones sets include Steel Wheels, which evoked the dystopian aesthetics of Blade Runner, and Bridges to Babylon, inspired by images from Latin American baroque churches and which expressed Fishers view that stadium rock had entered a baroque phase of fin-de-si.
Introduced by Mark Prizeman.
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