Centuries of Music
Jessica Ciocci

Available on Apple Books

24 Pages
14 x 20 cm
b/w Photocopy
First Edition 2009
150 Copies

www.paperrad.org

Centuries of Music was inspired by Sun Ra, Jandek, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Al B. Sure and Captain Jack. It represents images from Jessica's life. Outside the city limits, in a white dome, just below it, artists lived. Photographs, collages, pencils, scans of pieces of paper and things.

Jessica Ciocci's art of faux-innocent fun harks back to the East Village scene of the early 1980's and artists like Kenny Scharf and Keith Haring. Her work, like theirs, has a darker, satiric side. It parodies the simple-minded visions of personal empowerment, passionate lifestyle and spiritual bliss that are continually foisted on infantilized consumers of all ages.

The art collective Paper Rad established as a multi-media enterprise in 2000 by Jessica Ciocci (1976), Jacob Ciocci (1977) and Benjamin Jones (1977) works in the most varying of media such as video, drawing, wall painting and various lines including fashion, art and photography. Live action film, tape-recorded material from TV, self-drawn comics as well as obsolete technologies of consumer and youth culture converge on one another in an entire spatial staging.