https://dextersmidnightrunners.com Dexter Fletcher Fri, 02 May 2025 03:17:02 +0000 https://dextersmidnightrunners.com en https://dextersmidnightrunners.com/Index Fri, 20 May 2022 00:56:14 +0000 Dexter Fletcher https://dextersmidnightrunners.com/Index Dexter Fletcher https://dextersmidnightrunners.com/Love-Dexter-Fletcher Fri, 20 May 2022 00:56:14 +0000 Dexter Fletcher https://dextersmidnightrunners.com/Love-Dexter-Fletcher Love, Dexter Fletcher Prop Gallery Ashfield 22 November – 3 December 2023 How do you make something from nothing? By figuring out what you have in common. Naturally, what we shared in common emanated from the world we lived in – pop music, television, supermarkets, magazines. What promise, what solace. Our icons could easily have been anyone else – exchange George Michael for Jarvis Cocker, Madonna for the Manics, Janet Jackson for the Mekons, the Spice Girls for Bikini Kill, Pet Shop Boys for the Smiths. Yes, definitely do that! How do you figure out what you have in common? Perhaps you have to return to a moment before politics is understood as “politics”: to childhood, to playfulness, to curiosity and naive rage, and yes, to dreams. Billy Casper looks out the classroom window, his gaze and his imagination fixed upon a wild bird. In dreams, if nowhere else, our time is ours and no one takes it from us in the form of labour. If our time has to be sold for wages then we claim the right to seize our time – in our hearts, in our minds, in our daydreams … And then what did we make from our attempt to figure out what we had in common? We made friends. Friendship, the foundation of everything. Solidarity, mutual aid, free association – revolution. Don’t get us wrong, “friendship” is not some trick in an activist’s organising toolkit. We’re not trying to recruit you to our groupsicle. Friendship is not a means to an end. It is the end – it’s the point of everything. Doesn’t everyone in the world just want to be able to face another human being, a stranger, and find the thing they have in common? And as soon as they find it, turn it into a game, invite others to join them. It’s what we do. It’s what we are. It’s our species being. Oh, have you forgotten that’s all you ever wanted? 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Fully Automated Dexter Fletcher is an enquiry into the basic philosophy of games. Is it possible to create a set of rules that can be followed in order to produce work indistinguishable from Dexter Fletcher’s existing artworks? The final version of Fully Automated Dexter Fletcher will be a game that can be distributed to other people, who, as players of the game, can create Dexter Fletcher artworks, thus expanding the membership and production capacities of Dexter Fletcher, potentially without end. 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History of Blu Tack and its Uses and Abuses Among Members of the Renting Classes Melbourne Festival October 2017Not to Attach Any Fixture: A Social History of Blu Tack and its Uses and Abuses Among Members of the Renting Classes, With Slides and Commentary&nbsp;was first presented in 2017 at Melbourne Festival, as part of a series of public talks called Survival Skills for Desperate Times. An abridged version was subsequently performed in May 2018 at Read To Me, Sydney. Listen to the recording here.&nbsp;In 2019 a zine version of the presentation was made for the Other Worlds zine fair, reproducing the original, unabridged text and slides. <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/93dd8b110ef81e05ac5940c1a7ee39d4b244b73696f7c417c8617686693edcd9/Not-to-Attach-Any-Fixture-2_Page_03.jpg" data-mid="145058351" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/93dd8b110ef81e05ac5940c1a7ee39d4b244b73696f7c417c8617686693edcd9/Not-to-Attach-Any-Fixture-2_Page_03.jpg" /> <img width="554" height="791" width_o="554" height_o="791" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f72dabe5baa5cc97564ac774ee0ad18526e23753723618dc42bf770cb248cb78/Not-to-attach-any-fixture.jpg" data-mid="145058344" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/554/i/f72dabe5baa5cc97564ac774ee0ad18526e23753723618dc42bf770cb248cb78/Not-to-attach-any-fixture.jpg" /> <img width="1430" height="1073" width_o="1430" height_o="1073" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/385a5d2e101322407a505e8e632c27fbe4091ea4eb6d5c128a49b88783869a59/Not-to-Attach-Any-Fixture-2_Page_07.jpg" data-mid="145058356" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/385a5d2e101322407a505e8e632c27fbe4091ea4eb6d5c128a49b88783869a59/Not-to-Attach-Any-Fixture-2_Page_07.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5314e808b7eb3707e533fe023afdadb6e7a42b8d2802f292331e20a550ad904e/Not-to-Attach-Any-Fixture-2_Page_20.jpg" data-mid="145058370" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5314e808b7eb3707e533fe023afdadb6e7a42b8d2802f292331e20a550ad904e/Not-to-Attach-Any-Fixture-2_Page_20.jpg" /> <img width="1630" height="1223" width_o="1630" height_o="1223" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c9b04e99ad98aa7bf99c028bae85bb7cba0abb07783767c368770c008f54602/Not-to-Attach-Any-Fixture-2_Page_06.jpg" data-mid="145058355" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c9b04e99ad98aa7bf99c028bae85bb7cba0abb07783767c368770c008f54602/Not-to-Attach-Any-Fixture-2_Page_06.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c6ff3712589123f07dc2f0c10366fd5cb3ee4e69d9c438793283c539e10fe164/Not-to-Attach-Any-Fixture-2_Page_17.jpg" data-mid="145058366" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c6ff3712589123f07dc2f0c10366fd5cb3ee4e69d9c438793283c539e10fe164/Not-to-Attach-Any-Fixture-2_Page_17.jpg" /> Not to Attach Any Fixture zine cover and examples of slides https://dextersmidnightrunners.com/Second-Circulation Fri, 20 May 2022 00:56:15 +0000 Dexter Fletcher https://dextersmidnightrunners.com/Second-Circulation Second Circulation Verge Gallery Camperdown2–26 April 2015 Second Circulation was a group show of zine makers who are also art makers, curated by Dexter Fletcher. It included zine-making artists, musicians and academics from Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra, working across a range of mediums, and was accompanied by a public program. Read more about Second Circulation here. <img width="597" height="597" width_o="597" height_o="597" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b47accd816175e07cffd420a3f19ad6d3e657ac5a8478e50600389bbebf6fe1/Woman-posing-with-Dexter-Fletcher-s--Common-People--print.png" data-mid="145059364" border="0" alt="A woman poses with Dexter Fletcher's print 'Common People'" data-caption="A woman poses with Dexter Fletcher's print 'Common People'" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/597/i/8b47accd816175e07cffd420a3f19ad6d3e657ac5a8478e50600389bbebf6fe1/Woman-posing-with-Dexter-Fletcher-s--Common-People--print.png" /> <img width="651" height="1044" width_o="651" height_o="1044" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/329d8fef1c3496380009a2ae1722420631497e082ae10d2d315e88240f48130e/Miss-Helen.jpg" data-mid="145059360" border="0" alt="Miss Helen" data-caption="Miss Helen" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/651/i/329d8fef1c3496380009a2ae1722420631497e082ae10d2d315e88240f48130e/Miss-Helen.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="1339" width_o="1000" height_o="1339" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/972f058538dbee7ae78ef86ff296d783e4207c454d539c029cbd3520d3e18794/John-Stevens.jpg" data-mid="145059359" border="0" alt="John Stevens" data-caption="John Stevens" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/972f058538dbee7ae78ef86ff296d783e4207c454d539c029cbd3520d3e18794/John-Stevens.jpg" /> <img width="1305" height="1000" width_o="1305" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/86e1050c7fc2a4b40cc09cd29d8f377c6be73fe6370eafa3c5f56e4715f71dd0/Tim-Ungaro--Emma-Davidson--Vanessa-Berry.jpg" data-mid="145059362" border="0" alt="Tim Ungaro, Emma Davidson, Vanessa Berry" data-caption="Tim Ungaro, Emma Davidson, Vanessa Berry" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/86e1050c7fc2a4b40cc09cd29d8f377c6be73fe6370eafa3c5f56e4715f71dd0/Tim-Ungaro--Emma-Davidson--Vanessa-Berry.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="1339" width_o="1000" height_o="1339" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/77505b699ce1bf95f1fd518e9b6e64984a7545926a964a3b5917e1674eff0b00/Tim-Ungaro.jpg" data-mid="145059363" border="0" alt="Tim Ungaro" data-caption="Tim Ungaro" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/77505b699ce1bf95f1fd518e9b6e64984a7545926a964a3b5917e1674eff0b00/Tim-Ungaro.jpg" /> <img width="599" height="469" width_o="599" height_o="469" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c314d04181d6f4fc1ad8a3430e19882e7e8fc57bc921d08a7c98c65ccd04ad4/Second-Circulation-program.png" data-mid="145059361" border="0" alt="Second Circulation exhibition program/zine" data-caption="Second Circulation exhibition program/zine" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/599/i/5c314d04181d6f4fc1ad8a3430e19882e7e8fc57bc921d08a7c98c65ccd04ad4/Second-Circulation-program.png" /> https://dextersmidnightrunners.com/This-Magical-Group-Spirit Fri, 20 May 2022 00:56:15 +0000 Dexter Fletcher https://dextersmidnightrunners.com/This-Magical-Group-Spirit This Magical Group Spirit Sticky Institute Melbourne February 2015Dexter Fletcher manifesto, first screened at Sticky Institute during Festival of the Photocopier 2015. <img width="1440" height="1080" width_o="1440" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c81f857eb3c098e59fd44e857da879dd911ee3c7d677a279bb6a9986930c1ee5/Dexter-Fletcher-slide-show-2_Page_12.jpg" data-mid="145059803" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c81f857eb3c098e59fd44e857da879dd911ee3c7d677a279bb6a9986930c1ee5/Dexter-Fletcher-slide-show-2_Page_12.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/43f6faebe4a4588b3e7faa7cc4bf4d6b6d9156c96d5d25eb5caf47a492a4fa91/Dexter-Fletcher-slide-show-2_Page_13.jpg" data-mid="145059804" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/43f6faebe4a4588b3e7faa7cc4bf4d6b6d9156c96d5d25eb5caf47a492a4fa91/Dexter-Fletcher-slide-show-2_Page_13.jpg" /> Stills from This Magical Group Spirit https://dextersmidnightrunners.com/The-History-of-All-Our-Dreams Fri, 20 May 2022 00:56:16 +0000 Dexter Fletcher https://dextersmidnightrunners.com/The-History-of-All-Our-Dreams The History of All Our Dreams Sawtooth ARI Launceston 7–29 August 2015 The History of All Our Dreams was a group show featuring Dexter Fletcher’s Friday Night Theory and Plates of the Encyclopedia by Sydney Exploratory Society. <img width="960" height="540" width_o="960" height_o="540" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/122a6ec4f052bd350de97408c3be2c98cb158f7a5ee6cf20e2de928cdf996b3c/Wiggly-hands.jpg" data-mid="145059724" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/122a6ec4f052bd350de97408c3be2c98cb158f7a5ee6cf20e2de928cdf996b3c/Wiggly-hands.jpg" /> Friday Night Theory (still) https://dextersmidnightrunners.com/Friday-Night-Theory Fri, 20 May 2022 00:56:15 +0000 Dexter Fletcher https://dextersmidnightrunners.com/Friday-Night-Theory Friday Night Theory Sticky Institute Melbourne 16 August 2014Friday Night Theory is a film comprised entirely of found footage, made to accompany the zine Huffin’ Textas: A Secret History of Dexter Fletcher. The zine and the film are about the Manic Street Preachers and the Mekons; the 1984–85 UK Miners’ Strike and the 1811–12 Luddite rebellion; the Ken Loach film Kes and gang dreams; collaborative art and revolutionary friendship: “One of the central contradictions of my life is my equal fidelity to pop music and radical politics. Each has taught me a great deal about the other, but I know in my heart that should the world I dream about ever be brought into being, pop music as I’ve loved it would cease to exist.” Friday Night Theory is soundtracked by the Newport Dolls and Dexter Fletcher. The Newport Dolls were recorded live at Sticky Institute at the Melbourne launch of Huffin’ Textas zine and the inaugural screening of Friday Night Theory. Readers at the launch were: Thomas Blatchford, Lou Smith, Tom Sevil and Luke Sinclair. Huffin’ Textas was originally published in May 2014, as part of Dexter Fletcher’s exhibition&nbsp;Redressers Forever. Luddites vs. Thatcherites. That’s the history of all our dreams. <img width="960" height="540" width_o="960" height_o="540" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f0e318b8e2b14a31fecbcc9b0ff2a5e4340877707657fba1fa89391a8864cdfd/Design-For-Life.png" data-mid="145061138" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/f0e318b8e2b14a31fecbcc9b0ff2a5e4340877707657fba1fa89391a8864cdfd/Design-For-Life.png" /> <img width="960" height="540" width_o="960" height_o="540" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/10b13e9137637cbe312abc484ea30e4f773d5cc172806e2e46e9d52b3ccec950/Shangri-Las.png" data-mid="145061146" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/10b13e9137637cbe312abc484ea30e4f773d5cc172806e2e46e9d52b3ccec950/Shangri-Las.png" /> <img width="960" height="540" width_o="960" height_o="540" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/618b2cecf1a1bfff61c03dee42cc63828d6e00081bb669db2648554dc9898987/Bill-Douglas.png" data-mid="145061135" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/618b2cecf1a1bfff61c03dee42cc63828d6e00081bb669db2648554dc9898987/Bill-Douglas.png" /> <img width="960" height="540" width_o="960" height_o="540" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5ccb9428301644145904ece41ef93a8f19b6f6f2612d489ecbf02f787c518f64/The-Clash.png" data-mid="145061148" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/5ccb9428301644145904ece41ef93a8f19b6f6f2612d489ecbf02f787c518f64/The-Clash.png" /> <img width="960" height="540" width_o="960" height_o="540" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eb4bd2cfc25735ff8e256bb8e672a1b14cc2023d5a542ee44377cf440a31ec02/Clock.png" data-mid="145061137" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/eb4bd2cfc25735ff8e256bb8e672a1b14cc2023d5a542ee44377cf440a31ec02/Clock.png" /> <img width="960" height="540" width_o="960" height_o="540" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8909c98fc73630f8dcce395a1863609f63ad5c78daa5a9ba158875f33b68101e/Work.png" data-mid="145061153" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/8909c98fc73630f8dcce395a1863609f63ad5c78daa5a9ba158875f33b68101e/Work.png" /> https://dextersmidnightrunners.com/Huffin-Textas Fri, 20 May 2022 03:42:31 +0000 Dexter Fletcher https://dextersmidnightrunners.com/Huffin-Textas Huffin’ Textas Zine 2014Huffin’ Textas: A Secret History of Dexter Fletcher is a zine which was launched at the exhibition Redressers Forever. The common elements of Dexter Fletcher’s formative influences are spliced together to form a single narrative about punk, dada, art school, Manic Street Preachers, the Mekons, working in shops, friendship, gangs, grief, Billy Casper, and the 1984 British Miners' Strike. A zine about childhood and childish dreams, where every 'I' becomes 'we'. <img width="964" height="692" width_o="964" height_o="692" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd5123c2bf74ba1fc7d45a9cfa05bba47afb5896b81c54f2ace1c81a54f6fe46/3.-Dexter-Fletcher--Billie---Billie--2013--Gocco-print-on-paper--180x250mm.jpg" data-mid="145061778" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/964/i/fd5123c2bf74ba1fc7d45a9cfa05bba47afb5896b81c54f2ace1c81a54f6fe46/3.-Dexter-Fletcher--Billie---Billie--2013--Gocco-print-on-paper--180x250mm.jpg" /> <img width="975" height="674" width_o="975" height_o="674" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca9aa50685645767a9864d7d5a9ae965768226022a2b0528e26c6fe862527e84/2.-Dexter-Fletcher---Marilyn---Ritchie--2013--Gocco-print-on-paper--180x250mm.jpg" data-mid="145061777" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/975/i/ca9aa50685645767a9864d7d5a9ae965768226022a2b0528e26c6fe862527e84/2.-Dexter-Fletcher---Marilyn---Ritchie--2013--Gocco-print-on-paper--180x250mm.jpg" /> <img width="975" height="677" width_o="975" height_o="677" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4fde6c06ef1eaf3e352b762d7cf80bb1a1bf22dae7004adcef16e69b9affff1f/4.-Dexter-Fletcher--Emmy----Emmy--2013--Gocco-print-on-paper--180x250mm.jpg" data-mid="145061779" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/975/i/4fde6c06ef1eaf3e352b762d7cf80bb1a1bf22dae7004adcef16e69b9affff1f/4.-Dexter-Fletcher--Emmy----Emmy--2013--Gocco-print-on-paper--180x250mm.jpg" /> <img width="976" height="677" width_o="976" height_o="677" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1930b37c9aa16f4f35d79c4122490098f1752f4209c9cde3045005c0d6f615dc/1.-Dexter-Fletcher---Guy---Vivienne--2013--Gocco-print-on-paper--180x250mm.png" data-mid="145061776" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/976/i/1930b37c9aa16f4f35d79c4122490098f1752f4209c9cde3045005c0d6f615dc/1.-Dexter-Fletcher---Guy---Vivienne--2013--Gocco-print-on-paper--180x250mm.png" /> Huffin’ Textas cover designs, Gocco prints on coloured card https://dextersmidnightrunners.com/Redressers-Forever Fri, 20 May 2022 00:56:15 +0000 Dexter Fletcher https://dextersmidnightrunners.com/Redressers-Forever Redressers Forever 55 Sydenham Rd Marrickville 6–22 June 2014 Redressers Forever was an exhibition of the work Gang of One (Gocco print on A6 card, Letraset, acrylic marker) and the launch of the zine&nbsp;Huffin’ Textas: A Secret History of Dexter Fletcher. Extracts from letter of “Ned Ludd Clerk” addressed to “Mr Smith Shearing Frame Holder at Hill End Yorkshire”, March 9 or 10, 1812. Sir Information has just been given in that you are a holder of those detestable Shearing Frames, and I was desired by my Men to write to you and give you fair Warning to pull them down, and for that purpose I desire you will now understand I am now writing to you. you will take notice that if they are not taken down by the end of next Week, I will detach one of my Lieutenants with at least 300 Men to destroy them and furthermore take Notice that if you give us the Trouble of coming so far we will increase your misfortune by burning your Buildings down to Ashes and if you have the Impudence to fire upon any of my Men, they have orders to murder you, &amp; burn all your Housing, you will have the Goodness to your Neighbours to inform them that the same fate awaits them if their Frames are not speedily taken down as I understand their are several in your Neighbourhood, Frame holders. … By the latest Letters from our Correspondents we learn that the Manufacturers in the following Places are going to rise and join us in redressing their Wrongs Viz. Manchester, Wakefield Halifax, Bradford, Sheffield, Oldham, Rochdale and all the Cotton Country where the brave Mr Hanson will lead them on to Victory. the Weavers in Glasgow and many parts of Scotland will join us the Papists in Ireland are rising to so they are likely to find the Soldiers something else to do than Idle in Huddersfield and then Woe be to the places now guarded by them for we have come to the easier Way of burning them to Ashes which will most assuredly be their Fate either sooner or later. … And we will be governed by a just Republic, and may the Almighty hasten those happy Times is the Wish and Prayer of Millions in this Land, but we won’t only pray but we will fight, the Redcoats shall know that when the proper time comes We will never lay down our Arms. The House of Commons passes an Act to put down all Machinery hurtful to Commonality, and repeal that to hang Frame Breakers. But We. We petition no more that won’t do fighting must. 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