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Chicks on Speed started in 1997 as a fake group with fake records, fake t-shirts and fake interviews in the music press. A few years later the ("real") music press was hailing them as a new phenomenon, and praising their (real) records as the beginning of a new genre, baptised electroclash. However, Chicks on Speed are much more than a music group. They may well surf the ephemeral categories of the music world, but - as their unauthorised biographer claims - they'd prefer to sleep with their fans rather than music journos! Chicks on Speed is in fact a multidisciplinary art project that takes a DIY attitude and turns it loose not just on music, but also on performances, clothing design, a TV-shopping program, the creation of huge collages, management of a suicide record label (that will disappear with its 10th release), and much more!
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The Art rules rap. |
Fashion design and home production: going further and further out of the idea of being just a band. But the best product we have is... ourselves: the Worst Band In The World song. |
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More videos and songs. |
Abuse on stage in Córdoba and playing at the MoMA (New York) together with... Rodin. |
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The "electroclash" tour: a fake band turns real. Self branding and the music industry. Some direct insights on music business: Chicks On Speed's record deals and sources of income, from indie productions to a major and back again. After becoming a real band, Chicks started an "art tour". |
The Show at the Jeffrey Deitch gallery and the problems of making an exhibition of the process (instead of a final work) for an art dealer. The Chicks On Speed is a Project book (2003). Big concerts and workshops with art students showing alternative strategies of making art and breaking art art and fashion schools expectations about individual creativity. |
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The Cutting The Edge - Are You Real self-produced video (Barcelona 2006). |
