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	== Background ==		== Background ==
	2005<ref>http://1995-2015.undo.net/it/mostra/25514</ref><blockquote>In their first exhibition for three years (11th May - 2nd July) famed Conceptual Art collaborative Art & Language are to present new works at The Lisson Gallery, amongst other things including a daily karaoke show. [...] daily from 5-6 pm the space will be turned into the Art & Language Café with Karaoke and drinks.</blockquote>2005<ref>https://www.lissongallery.com/exhibitions/art-language</ref><blockquote>There are recent works as well as selected works and performance from the 1970s, including lyrics and songs produced in collaboration with The Red Crayola. These latter are presented as karaoke in the Art & Language café. </blockquote>2005<ref>https://zkm.de/en/event/2005/11/art-language-and-the-red-krayola</ref><blockquote>In conjunction with the symposium Art & Language are presenting their latest work on the ZKM Museum balcony. »Art & Language and The Red Krayola«, a karaoke installation, is a product of the artists’ cooperation with The Red Krayola which harks back to tracks from the albums »Corrected Slogans and Kangaroo?« in the 1970s and early 1980s.</blockquote>2013<blockquote>Art & Language with The Red Krayola, Karaoke Bar, 2005. DVD on loop, posters, chairs, table</blockquote>''[[10 Posters]]'' (1977)<gallery mode="packed">		2005<ref>http://1995-2015.undo.net/it/mostra/25514</ref><blockquote>In their first exhibition for three years (11th May - 2nd July) famed Conceptual Art collaborative Art & Language are to present new works at The Lisson Gallery, amongst other things including a daily karaoke show. [...] daily from 5-6 pm the space will be turned into the Art & Language Café with Karaoke and drinks.</blockquote>2005<ref>https://www.lissongallery.com/exhibitions/art-language</ref><blockquote>There are recent works as well as selected works and performance from the 1970s, including lyrics and songs produced in collaboration with The Red Crayola. These latter are presented as karaoke in the Art & Language café. </blockquote>2005<ref>https://zkm.de/en/event/2005/11/art-language-and-the-red-krayola</ref><blockquote>In conjunction with the symposium Art & Language are presenting their latest work on the ZKM Museum balcony. »Art & Language and The Red Krayola«, a karaoke installation, is a product of the artists’ cooperation with The Red Krayola which harks back to tracks from the albums »Corrected Slogans and Kangaroo?« in the 1970s and early 1980s.</blockquote>2013<blockquote>Art & Language with The Red Krayola, Karaoke Bar, 2005. DVD on loop, posters, chairs, table</blockquote>''[[10 Posters]]'' (1977)

			== Photos ==
			<gallery mode="packed">
	File:Karaoke-Bar-photo.jpg\|2005		File:Karaoke-Bar-photo.jpg\|2005
	File:Karaoke-Bar-photo3.jpg\|2009<ref>http://www.see-this-sound.at/essays_en/SeeThisSound_Deaf-Dumb-Mute-Blind.pdf#page=16</ref>		File:Karaoke-Bar-photo3.jpg\|2009<ref>http://www.see-this-sound.at/essays_en/SeeThisSound_Deaf-Dumb-Mute-Blind.pdf#page=16</ref>
	File:Karaoke-Bar-photo2.jpg\|2015<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/8ZlAmZOZnD/</ref>		File:Karaoke-Bar-photo2.jpg\|2015<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/8ZlAmZOZnD/</ref>
			File:Karaoke-Bar-photo4-John-Wayne.jpg\|2015<ref>http://www.neueraachenerkunstverein.de/content/2014/ausstellungen/modell-kunstverein-teil-2/?lang=en</ref>
	</gallery>		</gallery>
	== Track list ==		== Track list ==

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Exhibitions

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	Andrew Hunt<blockquote>[...] The karaoke event took place between 5pm and 6pm each day, and tracks from the album [[Kangaroo?]] (1981), such as ‘[[Portrait of V. I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock, Part I\|A Portrait of V. I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock]]’ were available to sing along to. Another ‘[[Nine Gross and Conspicuous Errors\|gross and conspicuous error]]’ started to operate here, but this time the question appeared to be, what kind of historical displacement occurs when we the spectators, as blind performers, sing these 24-year-old lyrics? As before, we are complicit in our own bad performance and misreading of these essay-like texts and through a historical distance provide a necessary misinterpretation of [[Art & Language]]’s work. This is an essential component of the group’s practice, and if they represent a resistance to the category of Conceptual art, where a Duchampian model is ‘emptied of its transgressive potential and rendered congenial to the managers of interdisciplinarity’, then maybe this combination of music and politics is something to strive for. If the original intention of these irreconcilable forces was to ‘stress the grammar and the sense of the text to the point of oblivion’, then through the lens of history this partnership at least still appears alien and strange, but for different reasons. When current bands are mimicking the urgency of outfits from the late 1970s, minus the political awareness, and younger artists and curators are fixated on radical models but lacking any real substance, there’s another, unwitting form of historical karaoke operating. Perhaps what we need right now are more deliberately irresponsible yet ‘real’ collaborations of this sort.</blockquote>		Andrew Hunt<blockquote>[...] The karaoke event took place between 5pm and 6pm each day, and tracks from the album [[Kangaroo?]] (1981), such as ‘[[Portrait of V. I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock, Part I\|A Portrait of V. I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock]]’ were available to sing along to. Another ‘[[Nine Gross and Conspicuous Errors\|gross and conspicuous error]]’ started to operate here, but this time the question appeared to be, what kind of historical displacement occurs when we the spectators, as blind performers, sing these 24-year-old lyrics? As before, we are complicit in our own bad performance and misreading of these essay-like texts and through a historical distance provide a necessary misinterpretation of [[Art & Language]]’s work. This is an essential component of the group’s practice, and if they represent a resistance to the category of Conceptual art, where a Duchampian model is ‘emptied of its transgressive potential and rendered congenial to the managers of interdisciplinarity’, then maybe this combination of music and politics is something to strive for. If the original intention of these irreconcilable forces was to ‘stress the grammar and the sense of the text to the point of oblivion’, then through the lens of history this partnership at least still appears alien and strange, but for different reasons. When current bands are mimicking the urgency of outfits from the late 1970s, minus the political awareness, and younger artists and curators are fixated on radical models but lacking any real substance, there’s another, unwitting form of historical karaoke operating. Perhaps what we need right now are more deliberately irresponsible yet ‘real’ collaborations of this sort.</blockquote>

			=== Le Monde ===
			March 24, 2006<ref>https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2006/03/24/le-groupe-art-amp-language-quarante-ans-d-esprit-caustique_754285_3246.html</ref>

			Bérénice Bailly<blockquote>Les artistes conceptuels peuvent s'adonner au karaoké. Le vernissage de l'exposition consacrée au groupe Art & Language dans les locaux de l'Ecole régionale des beaux-arts de Nantes (Erban) en fournissait, le 10 mars, une preuve inattendue. Membre fondateur du très sérieux collectif anglo-américain créé en 1968, et toujours actif, Michael Baldwin s'y laissait aller aux joies du chant sous-titré, réactivant une pièce ancienne, ''Karaoke'' (1975-2005).

			Un écran, de la musique, des mots défilant : seules les paroles sont un peu... particulières. Où il est question d'Internationale et de kangourou noir ; où "''postulat''" rime avec "''conglomérat''" ; où le mythique plasticien Joseph Beuys est traité de "''rejet gériatrique de la Luftwaffe''". "''C'est vrai, c'est un fasciste''", tient à souligner l'artiste britannique. Qui livre, un peu plus tard : "''Ce qu'on voulait montrer avec cette pièce ? Que Trotski est musique''."

			Esprit caustique, violence politique, épuisement du langage, remise en question de tous les stéréotypes de l'artiste : l'argumentaire développé depuis quarante ans par Art & Language (en textes, affiches, peintures, disques, revues...) a bouleversé la vie du jeune collectionneur Philippe Méaille. Il est à l'origine de cet hommage, avec le directeur des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Pierre-Jean Galdin. [...]</blockquote>

	=== Rock-Paper-Scissors: Pop Music as Subject of Visual Art ===		=== Rock-Paper-Scissors: Pop Music as Subject of Visual Art ===

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Background

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	== Background ==		== Background ==
	2005<ref>http://1995-2015.undo.net/it/mostra/25514</ref><blockquote>In their first exhibition for three years (11th May - 2nd July) famed Conceptual Art collaborative Art & Language are to present new works at The Lisson Gallery, amongst other things including a daily karaoke show. [...] daily from 5-6 pm the space will be turned into the Art & Language Café with Karaoke and drinks.</blockquote>2005<ref>https://www.lissongallery.com/exhibitions/art-language</ref><blockquote>There are recent works as well as selected works and performance from the 1970s, including lyrics and songs produced in collaboration with The Red Crayola. These latter are presented as karaoke in the Art & Language café. </blockquote>2005<ref>https://zkm.de/en/event/2005/11/art-language-and-the-red-krayola</ref><blockquote>In conjunction with the symposium Art & Language are presenting their latest work on the ZKM Museum balcony. »Art & Language and The Red Krayola«, a karaoke installation, is a product of the artists’ cooperation with The Red Krayola which harks back to tracks from the albums »Corrected Slogans and Kangaroo?« in the 1970s and early 1980s.</blockquote>2013<blockquote>Art & Language with The Red Krayola, Karaoke Bar, 2005. DVD on loop, posters, chairs, table</blockquote>''[[10 Posters]]'' (1977)<gallery mode="packed">		2005<ref>http://1995-2015.undo.net/it/mostra/25514</ref><blockquote>In their first exhibition for three years (11th May - 2nd July) famed Conceptual Art collaborative Art & Language are to present new works at The Lisson Gallery, amongst other things including a daily karaoke show. [...] daily from 5-6 pm the space will be turned into the Art & Language Café with Karaoke and drinks.</blockquote>2005<ref>https://www.lissongallery.com/exhibitions/art-language</ref><blockquote>There are recent works as well as selected works and performance from the 1970s, including lyrics and songs produced in collaboration with The Red Crayola. These latter are presented as karaoke in the Art & Language café. </blockquote>2005<ref>https://zkm.de/en/event/2005/11/art-language-and-the-red-krayola</ref><blockquote>In conjunction with the symposium Art & Language are presenting their latest work on the ZKM Museum balcony. »Art & Language and The Red Krayola«, a karaoke installation, is a product of the artists’ cooperation with The Red Krayola which harks back to tracks from the albums »Corrected Slogans and Kangaroo?« in the 1970s and early 1980s.</blockquote>2013<blockquote>Art & Language with The Red Krayola, Karaoke Bar, 2005. DVD on loop, posters, chairs, table</blockquote>''[[10 Posters]]'' (1977)<gallery mode="packed">
	File:Karaoke-Bar-photo3.jpg\|<ref>http://www.see-this-sound.at/essays_en/SeeThisSound_Deaf-Dumb-Mute-Blind.pdf#page=16</ref>		File:Karaoke-Bar-photo.jpg\|2005
	File:Karaoke-Bar-photo2.jpg\|2015<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/8ZlAmZOZnD/</ref>		File:Karaoke-Bar-photo3.jpg\|2009<ref>http://www.see-this-sound.at/essays_en/SeeThisSound_Deaf-Dumb-Mute-Blind.pdf#page=16</ref>
			File:Karaoke-Bar-photo2.jpg\|2015<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/8ZlAmZOZnD/</ref>
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	== Track list ==		== Track list ==

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	== Background ==		== Background ==
	2005<ref>http://1995-2015.undo.net/it/mostra/25514</ref><blockquote>In their first exhibition for three years (11th May - 2nd July) famed Conceptual Art collaborative Art & Language are to present new works at The Lisson Gallery, amongst other things including a daily karaoke show. [...] daily from 5-6 pm the space will be turned into the Art & Language Café with Karaoke and drinks.</blockquote>2005<ref>https://www.lissongallery.com/exhibitions/art-language</ref><blockquote>There are recent works as well as selected works and performance from the 1970s, including lyrics and songs produced in collaboration with The Red Crayola. These latter are presented as karaoke in the Art & Language café. </blockquote>2005<ref>https://zkm.de/en/event/2005/11/art-language-and-the-red-krayola</ref><blockquote>In conjunction with the symposium Art & Language are presenting their latest work on the ZKM Museum balcony. »Art & Language and The Red Krayola«, a karaoke installation, is a product of the artists’ cooperation with The Red Krayola which harks back to tracks from the albums »Corrected Slogans and Kangaroo?« in the 1970s and early 1980s.</blockquote>''[[10 Posters]]'' (1977)<gallery mode="packed">		2005<ref>http://1995-2015.undo.net/it/mostra/25514</ref><blockquote>In their first exhibition for three years (11th May - 2nd July) famed Conceptual Art collaborative Art & Language are to present new works at The Lisson Gallery, amongst other things including a daily karaoke show. [...] daily from 5-6 pm the space will be turned into the Art & Language Café with Karaoke and drinks.</blockquote>2005<ref>https://www.lissongallery.com/exhibitions/art-language</ref><blockquote>There are recent works as well as selected works and performance from the 1970s, including lyrics and songs produced in collaboration with The Red Crayola. These latter are presented as karaoke in the Art & Language café. </blockquote>2005<ref>https://zkm.de/en/event/2005/11/art-language-and-the-red-krayola</ref><blockquote>In conjunction with the symposium Art & Language are presenting their latest work on the ZKM Museum balcony. »Art & Language and The Red Krayola«, a karaoke installation, is a product of the artists’ cooperation with The Red Krayola which harks back to tracks from the albums »Corrected Slogans and Kangaroo?« in the 1970s and early 1980s.</blockquote>2013<blockquote>Art & Language with The Red Krayola, Karaoke Bar, 2005. DVD on loop, posters, chairs, table</blockquote>''[[10 Posters]]'' (1977)<gallery mode="packed">
	File:Karaoke-Bar-photo3.jpg\|<ref>http://www.see-this-sound.at/essays_en/SeeThisSound_Deaf-Dumb-Mute-Blind.pdf#page=16</ref>		File:Karaoke-Bar-photo3.jpg\|<ref>http://www.see-this-sound.at/essays_en/SeeThisSound_Deaf-Dumb-Mute-Blind.pdf#page=16</ref>
	File:Karaoke-Bar-photo2.jpg\|2015<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/8ZlAmZOZnD/</ref>		File:Karaoke-Bar-photo2.jpg\|2015<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/8ZlAmZOZnD/</ref>
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	Incomplete list		Incomplete list
			* [[Don't Talk to Sociologists...]]
	* [[Portrait of V. I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock, Part I]]		* [[Portrait of V. I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock, Part I]]
	* [[Keep All Your Friends]]		* [[Keep All Your Friends]]
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	Total length: 41:10<ref>https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/art-language-karaoke-t14218</ref>		Total length: 41:10<ref>https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/art-language-karaoke-t14218</ref>

			<ref>https://www.museum-joanneum.at/fileadmin//user_upload/Kunsthaus/Downloads/A-Zettel-SSP-e-KORR_1_.pdf#page=6</ref><blockquote>DVD in a loop, poster, table, chairs; text and music by Art & Language and The Red Krayola from ''[[Corrected Slogans]]'', 1976 (Drag City Records) and ''[[Kangaroo?]]'', 1981 (Drag City Records); [[10 Posters\|10 posters]] by Art & Language, 1977; silkscreen on paper, each poster 108 × 80 cm, edition of 40</blockquote>

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	Andrew Hunt<blockquote>[...] The karaoke event took place between 5pm and 6pm each day, and tracks from the album [[Kangaroo?]] (1981), such as ‘[[Portrait of V. I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock, Part I\|A Portrait of V. I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock]]’ were available to sing along to. Another ‘[[Nine Gross and Conspicuous Errors\|gross and conspicuous error]]’ started to operate here, but this time the question appeared to be, what kind of historical displacement occurs when we the spectators, as blind performers, sing these 24-year-old lyrics? As before, we are complicit in our own bad performance and misreading of these essay-like texts and through a historical distance provide a necessary misinterpretation of [[Art & Language]]’s work. This is an essential component of the group’s practice, and if they represent a resistance to the category of Conceptual art, where a Duchampian model is ‘emptied of its transgressive potential and rendered congenial to the managers of interdisciplinarity’, then maybe this combination of music and politics is something to strive for. If the original intention of these irreconcilable forces was to ‘stress the grammar and the sense of the text to the point of oblivion’, then through the lens of history this partnership at least still appears alien and strange, but for different reasons. When current bands are mimicking the urgency of outfits from the late 1970s, minus the political awareness, and younger artists and curators are fixated on radical models but lacking any real substance, there’s another, unwitting form of historical karaoke operating. Perhaps what we need right now are more deliberately irresponsible yet ‘real’ collaborations of this sort.</blockquote>		Andrew Hunt<blockquote>[...] The karaoke event took place between 5pm and 6pm each day, and tracks from the album [[Kangaroo?]] (1981), such as ‘[[Portrait of V. I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock, Part I\|A Portrait of V. I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock]]’ were available to sing along to. Another ‘[[Nine Gross and Conspicuous Errors\|gross and conspicuous error]]’ started to operate here, but this time the question appeared to be, what kind of historical displacement occurs when we the spectators, as blind performers, sing these 24-year-old lyrics? As before, we are complicit in our own bad performance and misreading of these essay-like texts and through a historical distance provide a necessary misinterpretation of [[Art & Language]]’s work. This is an essential component of the group’s practice, and if they represent a resistance to the category of Conceptual art, where a Duchampian model is ‘emptied of its transgressive potential and rendered congenial to the managers of interdisciplinarity’, then maybe this combination of music and politics is something to strive for. If the original intention of these irreconcilable forces was to ‘stress the grammar and the sense of the text to the point of oblivion’, then through the lens of history this partnership at least still appears alien and strange, but for different reasons. When current bands are mimicking the urgency of outfits from the late 1970s, minus the political awareness, and younger artists and curators are fixated on radical models but lacking any real substance, there’s another, unwitting form of historical karaoke operating. Perhaps what we need right now are more deliberately irresponsible yet ‘real’ collaborations of this sort.</blockquote>

			=== Rock-Paper-Scissors: Pop Music as Subject of Visual Art ===
			2009<ref>https://www.museum-joanneum.at/fileadmin//user_upload/Kunsthaus/Downloads/A-Zettel-SSP-e-KORR_1_.pdf#page=6</ref><blockquote>''Art & Language'' has been challenging the traditional concept of art since 1966 by denying any individualistic view of art and taking Marxist and linguistic analyses as their starting point. How far can art objects be replaced by linguistic concepts?

			In the early 80s, and then again in recent years, ''Art & Language'' wrote lyrics for ''The Red Krayola'' band. Back in 1976, they worked with the only permanent member of the band, [[Mayo Thompson]], on an album that appeared under the ''Art & Language'' name. The Karaoke Bar that ''Art & Language'' have installed draws on that album, ''[[Corrected Slogans]]'' (1976), and ''[[Kangaroo?]]'' (1981), one of the joint albums they did with ''The Red Krayola''. The public are invited to pick up the microphone and sing along themselves as part of the installation, following the text shown. The musical cue makes it clear that karaoke is not so much a musical experience as a social one. In the age of SingStar and Guitar Hero, karaoke already seems to belong to a history in which making music together in public premises enters the private sphere of a new domestic music; where one normally dreams of occupying the privileged position of a star within the virtual opportunities of one’s own home, one unexpectedly finds oneself in a position of having to advocate in song the controversial ideas of ''Art & Language'', for example that one should not talk to sociologists. Contextualised by cover pages of the periodical published by ''Art & Language'', questions of narrator position and legitimation for talking publicly are thematised.</blockquote>

	=== Gossip Pop: A Performative Investigation of the Role of Pop in Contemporary Art Practice ===		=== Gossip Pop: A Performative Investigation of the Role of Pop in Contemporary Art Practice ===

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	''[[Karaoke Bar]]'' is an installation by [[Art & Language]].		''[[Karaoke Bar]]'' is an installation by [[The Red Crayola with Art & Language\|Art & Language with The Red Krayola]].

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	Andrew Hunt<blockquote>[...] The karaoke event took place between 5pm and 6pm each day, and tracks from the album [[Kangaroo?]] (1981), such as ‘[[Portrait of V. I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock, Part I\|A Portrait of V. I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock]]’ were available to sing along to. Another ‘[[Nine Gross and Conspicuous Errors\|gross and conspicuous error]]’ started to operate here, but this time the question appeared to be, what kind of historical displacement occurs when we the spectators, as blind performers, sing these 24-year-old lyrics? As before, we are complicit in our own bad performance and misreading of these essay-like texts and through a historical distance provide a necessary misinterpretation of [[Art & Language]]’s work. This is an essential component of the group’s practice, and if they represent a resistance to the category of Conceptual art, where a Duchampian model is ‘emptied of its transgressive potential and rendered congenial to the managers of interdisciplinarity’, then maybe this combination of music and politics is something to strive for. If the original intention of these irreconcilable forces was to ‘stress the grammar and the sense of the text to the point of oblivion’, then through the lens of history this partnership at least still appears alien and strange, but for different reasons. When current bands are mimicking the urgency of outfits from the late 1970s, minus the political awareness, and younger artists and curators are fixated on radical models but lacking any real substance, there’s another, unwitting form of historical karaoke operating. Perhaps what we need right now are more deliberately irresponsible yet ‘real’ collaborations of this sort.</blockquote>		Andrew Hunt<blockquote>[...] The karaoke event took place between 5pm and 6pm each day, and tracks from the album [[Kangaroo?]] (1981), such as ‘[[Portrait of V. I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock, Part I\|A Portrait of V. I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock]]’ were available to sing along to. Another ‘[[Nine Gross and Conspicuous Errors\|gross and conspicuous error]]’ started to operate here, but this time the question appeared to be, what kind of historical displacement occurs when we the spectators, as blind performers, sing these 24-year-old lyrics? As before, we are complicit in our own bad performance and misreading of these essay-like texts and through a historical distance provide a necessary misinterpretation of [[Art & Language]]’s work. This is an essential component of the group’s practice, and if they represent a resistance to the category of Conceptual art, where a Duchampian model is ‘emptied of its transgressive potential and rendered congenial to the managers of interdisciplinarity’, then maybe this combination of music and politics is something to strive for. If the original intention of these irreconcilable forces was to ‘stress the grammar and the sense of the text to the point of oblivion’, then through the lens of history this partnership at least still appears alien and strange, but for different reasons. When current bands are mimicking the urgency of outfits from the late 1970s, minus the political awareness, and younger artists and curators are fixated on radical models but lacking any real substance, there’s another, unwitting form of historical karaoke operating. Perhaps what we need right now are more deliberately irresponsible yet ‘real’ collaborations of this sort.</blockquote>

			=== Gossip Pop: A Performative Investigation of the Role of Pop in Contemporary Art Practice ===
			March 2013<ref>https://vuir.vu.edu.au/24837/1/DODD%20Sue-thesis_nosignature.pdf#page=149</ref>

			Sue Ellen Dodd<blockquote>[...] Just as people make a party, in the operational scenarios for this work outlined above, people provide the power, or they don’t. It’s a choice. Although the artist presents the choice, he or she cannot control it. It rests with the viewer.

			There is a similar participatory choice for the viewer in ''Karaoke Bar'', 2005, by ''Art & Language'' with ''The Red Krayola''. Formed in 1966, this Marxist-oriented conceptual art group ''Art & Language'', in this instance comprising [[Mel Ramsden]], [[Charles Harrison]] and [[Michael Baldwin]], worked with [[Mayo Thompson]]’s former Texas-psychedelic band ''Red Krayola''. The authorship is divided between an artistic group with a title or "brand" and a "real" band. They produced three LPs between 1976 and 1983 featuring political theory as lyrics (by the artists), sung in an out-of-key deadpan manner, accompanied by backing music with rudimentary instrumentation (by the band).

			The songs were reworked in this instance as karaoke tracks with the lyrics appearing as text on a large screen. The audience are invited to pick up the microphone and sing along, striking the familiar living room pose of the Singstar or Guitar Hero pop star. “[W]here one normally dreams of occupying the privileged position of a star within the virtual opportunities of one’s own home,” the gallery guide states, "one unexpectedly finds oneself in a position of having to advocate in song the controversial ideas of ''Art & Language''." [...]

			Posters of periodical covers published by ''Art & Language'' reference the tension between the multiple format and commercial commodity of the magazine and the epistemological production of artists versus the authorised "serious" journal format, such as would be published by an academic institution. These are hung on the gallery wall adjacent to the karaoke screen, with couches and coffee table covered with ''Art and Language'' publications: a microphone faces the screen. In this artwork, a blatantly political ideology (but one produced by artists) combines with the triteness and disposability of the karaoke form to create a participatory performance mode for the institutional museum context. Rhetorical speech, so often used in politics, is here subverted into pop karaoke, providing an opportunity for amateurs to have their moment in the limelight, but voicing the artist’s concerns. [...]</blockquote>

	=== See This Sound: Audiovisuology: A Reader ===		=== See This Sound: Audiovisuology: A Reader ===

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			''[[Karaoke Bar]]'' is an installation by [[Art & Language]].

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	<ref>https://www.see-this-sound.at/essays_en/SeeThisSound_Deaf-Dumb-Mute-Blind.pdf#page=16</ref><blockquote>Between 1976 and 1983, the conceptual art group Art & Language engaged in a series of musical collaborations with the rock band The Red Krayola, which they revisited in 2005 in their installation ''Karaoke Bar''. The setting of this work is modeled on the typical layout of a karaoke bar: two benches face the standard karaoke projection of lines of text against a blue background, with the lines changing from red to yellow as the song progresses; a cocktail table holds a microphone, which visitors are free to use; the wall sports a gallery of posters that shed light on the historical context of the collaboration. Visitors to karaoke bars can usually consult thick catalogs listing the numerous sing-along songs available; Art & Language and The Red Krayola provide copies of magazines such as ''[[The Fox]]'' and ''[[Art-Language]]'', which in the mid-1970s expounded the group’s theoretical superstructure. Likewise, the posters on the wall are not typical for the setting, but rather include record sleeves and posters taken from ''Art-Language''. For example, the collection features the grotesquely misshapen and coiled man, arms extended like a snail’s antennae, who graced the cover of ''[[Corrected Slogans]]'' (1976, re-released in 1982), as well as woodcut-like industrial workers in the style of popular socialist realist iconography. The music featured in ''Karaoke Bar'' consists of the joint recordings by Art & Language and The Red Krayola, in which catchy refrains alternate with unconventional recitatives with Marxist-Leninist language. Even thirty years after their composition, they have lost none of their historical incisiveness.</blockquote><ref>http://www.see-this-sound.at/essays_en/SeeThisSound_Deaf-Dumb-Mute-Blind.pdf#page=6</ref><blockquote>[...] An example of an entirely different approach to dealing with both sensory overloads and sensory deficits is the ''Karaoke Bar'' created in 2005 by Art & Language together with The Red Krayola. This installation also focuses on rock music’s historical radical potential (or loss of it), and it, too, translates its manifestations into a contemporary form of everyday entertainment architecture. However, the position of the viewers is quite different than that in [Mike] Kelley’s work, for they are incorporated into the image/sound configuration in an entirely different manner. Not in the sense that an attempt is made to ''compensate'' visually or by means of an installation for what is otherwise not representable in terms of musical possibilities of boundary transgression; instead, the musical source material is in a sense ''overcoded'' with both artificial installational and everyday cultural means. Thus, the endeavor is not to compensate the excess of ''one'' medium (e.g., sound) by ''another'' (e.g., visual excess); rather, the ''compensation'', if this is the correct term, takes place at the multisensorial and, ultimately, intellectual level.		<ref>https://www.see-this-sound.at/essays_en/SeeThisSound_Deaf-Dumb-Mute-Blind.pdf#page=16</ref><blockquote>Between 1976 and 1983, the conceptual art group Art & Language engaged in a series of musical collaborations with the rock band The Red Krayola, which they revisited in 2005 in their installation ''Karaoke Bar''. The setting of this work is modeled on the typical layout of a karaoke bar: two benches face the standard karaoke projection of lines of text against a blue background, with the lines changing from red to yellow as the song progresses; a cocktail table holds a microphone, which visitors are free to use; the wall sports a gallery of posters that shed light on the historical context of the collaboration. Visitors to karaoke bars can usually consult thick catalogs listing the numerous sing-along songs available; Art & Language and The Red Krayola provide copies of magazines such as ''[[The Fox]]'' and ''[[Art-Language]]'', which in the mid-1970s expounded the group’s theoretical superstructure. Likewise, the posters on the wall are not typical for the setting, but rather include record sleeves and posters taken from ''Art-Language''. For example, the collection features the grotesquely misshapen and coiled man, arms extended like a snail’s antennae, who graced the cover of ''[[Corrected Slogans]]'' (1976, re-released in 1982), as well as woodcut-like industrial workers in the style of popular socialist realist iconography. The music featured in ''Karaoke Bar'' consists of the joint recordings by Art & Language and The Red Krayola, in which catchy refrains alternate with unconventional recitatives with Marxist-Leninist language. Even thirty years after their composition, they have lost none of their historical incisiveness.</blockquote><ref>http://www.see-this-sound.at/essays_en/SeeThisSound_Deaf-Dumb-Mute-Blind.pdf#page=6</ref><blockquote>[...] An example of an entirely different approach to dealing with both sensory overloads and sensory deficits is the ''Karaoke Bar'' created in 2005 by Art & Language together with The Red Krayola. This installation also focuses on rock music’s historical radical potential (or loss of it), and it, too, translates its manifestations into a contemporary form of everyday entertainment architecture. However, the position of the viewers is quite different than that in [Mike] Kelley’s work, for they are incorporated into the image/sound configuration in an entirely different manner. Not in the sense that an attempt is made to ''compensate'' visually or by means of an installation for what is otherwise not representable in terms of musical possibilities of boundary transgression; instead, the musical source material is in a sense ''overcoded'' with both artificial installational and everyday cultural means. Thus, the endeavor is not to compensate the excess of ''one'' medium (e.g., sound) by ''another'' (e.g., visual excess); rather, the ''compensation'', if this is the correct term, takes place at the multisensorial and, ultimately, intellectual level.

	The essence of this overcoding is significant breaks inserted into almost all aspects of the karaoke arrangement. Thus, the scrolling texts (and the accompanying music) are not just average pop fare, but rather consist of excerpts from the albums that Art & Language and The Red Krayola recorded together between 1976 and 1983. At that time, the two bands were experimenting with applying a pop-song format to extracts from Marxist theory, seditious pamphlets, slogans reshaped as poetry, historical aperçus, and the like, and they were giving generous musical scope to the resulting mutual breaks. Even thirty years later, this blending of forms made up of catchy refrains, unconventional recitatives, and Marxist diction ("And we will be fed / Breakfast in bed / And served by a fat millionaire") has lost none of its incisiveness. The breaks created by the old periodicals displayed in the installation (''The Fox'' and ''Art-Language'') and the posters taken from them and hung on the walls are also consistent with the format. This mix creates an atmosphere that, while formally corresponding to the setting of a singing booth, is actually diametrically opposed to it thematically.		The essence of this overcoding is significant breaks inserted into almost all aspects of the karaoke arrangement. Thus, the scrolling texts (and the accompanying music) are not just average pop fare, but rather consist of excerpts from the albums that Art & Language and The Red Krayola recorded together between 1976 and 1983. At that time, the two bands were experimenting with applying a pop-song format to extracts from Marxist theory, seditious pamphlets, slogans reshaped as poetry, historical aperçus, and the like, and they were giving generous musical scope to the resulting mutual breaks. Even thirty years later, this blending of forms made up of catchy refrains, unconventional recitatives, and Marxist diction ("And we will be fed / Breakfast in bed / And served by a fat millionaire") has lost none of its incisiveness. The breaks created by the old periodicals displayed in the installation (''[[The Fox]]'' and ''[[Art-Language]]'') and the posters taken from them and hung on the walls are also consistent with the format. This mix creates an atmosphere that, while formally corresponding to the setting of a singing booth, is actually diametrically opposed to it thematically.

	Finally, the installation includes an extremely significant modification of the conventional karaoke setting. Whereas in the usual karaoke the instrumental versions of songs are played and participants sing the lyrics, in the work of Art & Language and The Red Krayola the integral original versions, including the singing, are played. The supposed moment of empowerment granted to hobby vocalists in the conventional setting is denied them here, or at least there is no attempt to make it the defining characteristic of the elaborate installation. While anyone can sing or bellow along as heartily as he or she wishes, the installation does not depend on the participation aspect, the subjective factor, so to speak. It is as though the artists do not want to saddle the visitors with responsibility or with the obligation to recognize the music (given that it is known only to the initiated). Or as though any visitors familiar with the sounds could join in the singing as the whim takes them, as has always been the case for pop fans listening at home or at public concerts, without any particular guidance being required.		Finally, the installation includes an extremely significant modification of the conventional karaoke setting. Whereas in the usual karaoke the instrumental versions of songs are played and participants sing the lyrics, in the work of Art & Language and The Red Krayola the integral original versions, including the singing, are played. The supposed moment of empowerment granted to hobby vocalists in the conventional setting is denied them here, or at least there is no attempt to make it the defining characteristic of the elaborate installation. While anyone can sing or bellow along as heartily as he or she wishes, the installation does not depend on the participation aspect, the subjective factor, so to speak. It is as though the artists do not want to saddle the visitors with responsibility or with the obligation to recognize the music (given that it is known only to the initiated). Or as though any visitors familiar with the sounds could join in the singing as the whim takes them, as has always been the case for pop fans listening at home or at public concerts, without any particular guidance being required.

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	== Background ==		== Background ==
	2005<ref>http://1995-2015.undo.net/it/mostra/25514</ref><blockquote>In their first exhibition for three years (11th May - 2nd July) famed Conceptual Art collaborative Art & Language are to present new works at The Lisson Gallery, amongst other things including a daily karaoke show. [...] daily from 5-6 pm the space will be turned into the Art & Language Café with Karaoke and drinks.</blockquote>2005<ref>https://www.lissongallery.com/exhibitions/art-language</ref><blockquote>There are recent works as well as selected works and performance from the 1970s, including lyrics and songs produced in collaboration with The Red Crayola. These latter are presented as karaoke in the Art & Language café. </blockquote>2005<ref>https://zkm.de/en/event/2005/11/art-language-and-the-red-krayola</ref><blockquote>In conjunction with the symposium Art & Language are presenting their latest work on the ZKM Museum balcony. »Art & Language and The Red Krayola«, a karaoke installation, is a product of the artists’ cooperation with The Red Krayola which harks back to tracks from the albums »Corrected Slogans and Kangaroo?« in the 1970s and early 1980s.</blockquote>''[[10 Posters]]'' (1977)<gallery mode="packed">		2005<ref>http://1995-2015.undo.net/it/mostra/25514</ref><blockquote>In their first exhibition for three years (11th May - 2nd July) famed Conceptual Art collaborative Art & Language are to present new works at The Lisson Gallery, amongst other things including a daily karaoke show. [...] daily from 5-6 pm the space will be turned into the Art & Language Café with Karaoke and drinks.</blockquote>2005<ref>https://www.lissongallery.com/exhibitions/art-language</ref><blockquote>There are recent works as well as selected works and performance from the 1970s, including lyrics and songs produced in collaboration with The Red Crayola. These latter are presented as karaoke in the Art & Language café. </blockquote>2005<ref>https://zkm.de/en/event/2005/11/art-language-and-the-red-krayola</ref><blockquote>In conjunction with the symposium Art & Language are presenting their latest work on the ZKM Museum balcony. »Art & Language and The Red Krayola«, a karaoke installation, is a product of the artists’ cooperation with The Red Krayola which harks back to tracks from the albums »Corrected Slogans and Kangaroo?« in the 1970s and early 1980s.</blockquote>''[[10 Posters]]'' (1977)<gallery mode="packed">
	File:Karaoke-Bar-photo2.jpg\|2015<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/8ZlAmZOZnD/</ref>		File:Karaoke-Bar-photo3.jpg\|<ref>http://www.see-this-sound.at/essays_en/SeeThisSound_Deaf-Dumb-Mute-Blind.pdf#page=16</ref>
			File:Karaoke-Bar-photo2.jpg\|2015<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/8ZlAmZOZnD/</ref>
	</gallery>		</gallery>
	== Track list ==		== Track list ==

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Exhibitions

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	== Background ==		== Background ==
	2005<ref>http://1995-2015.undo.net/it/mostra/25514</ref><blockquote>In their first exhibition for three years (11th May - 2nd July) famed Conceptual Art collaborative Art & Language are to present new works at The Lisson Gallery, amongst other things including a daily karaoke show. [...] daily from 5-6 pm the space will be turned into the Art & Language Café with Karaoke and drinks.</blockquote>[[File:Karaoke-Bar-photo2.jpg~~\|thumb\|upright~~\|2015<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/8ZlAmZOZnD/</ref>]]		2005<ref>http://1995-2015.undo.net/it/mostra/25514</ref><blockquote>In their first exhibition for three years (11th May - 2nd July) famed Conceptual Art collaborative Art & Language are to present new works at The Lisson Gallery, amongst other things including a daily karaoke show. [...] daily from 5-6 pm the space will be turned into the Art & Language Café with Karaoke and drinks.</blockquote>2005<ref>https://www.lissongallery.com/exhibitions/art-language</ref><blockquote>There are recent works as well as selected works and performance from the 1970s, including lyrics and songs produced in collaboration with The Red Crayola. These latter are presented as karaoke in the Art & Language café. </blockquote>2005<ref>https://zkm.de/en/event/2005/11/art-language-and-the-red-krayola</ref><blockquote>In conjunction with the symposium Art & Language are presenting their latest work on the ZKM Museum balcony. »Art & Language and The Red Krayola«, a karaoke installation, is a product of the artists’ cooperation with The Red Krayola which harks back to tracks from the albums »Corrected Slogans and Kangaroo?« in the 1970s and early 1980s.</blockquote>''[[10 Posters]]'' (1977)<gallery mode="packed">
			File:Karaoke-Bar-photo2.jpg\|2015<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/8ZlAmZOZnD/</ref>
			</gallery>
	== Track list ==		== Track list ==
	Incomplete list ~~(possibly 13 tracks)~~		Incomplete list
	* [[Portrait of V. I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock, Part I]]		* [[Portrait of V. I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock, Part I]]
			* [[Keep All Your Friends]]
	* [[Marches No's 23, 24, 25]]		* [[Marches No's 23, 24, 25]]
	* [[An Old Man's Dream]]		* [[An Old Man's Dream]]
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	!Date		!Date
			!Title
	!Location		!Location
	!		!
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	\|{{Flagdeco\|UK}}		\|{{Flagdeco\|UK}}
	\|May 11 - June 2, 2005		\|May 11 - June 2, 2005
			\|''Hard to Say When''
	\|Lisson Gallery, London		\|Lisson Gallery, London
	\|<ref>https://www.lissongallery.com/exhibitions/art-language</ref>		\|<ref>https://www.lissongallery.com/exhibitions/art-language</ref>
			\|-
			\|{{Flagdeco\|DE}}
			\|November 5, 2005 - January 8, 2006
			\|''Art & Language and The Red Krayola''
			\|ZKM, Karlsruhe
			\|<ref>https://zkm.de/en/event/2005/11/art-language-and-the-red-krayola</ref>
			\|-
			\|{{Flagdeco\|FR}}
			\|2006
			\|''Il Ne Reste Qu'a Chanter''
			\|Galerie de l'Erban/Ecole Régionale des Beaux-arts, Nantes
			\|
			\|-
			\|{{Flagdeco\|AT}}
			\|June 6 - August 30, 2009
			\|''Schere-Stein-Papier. Pop-Musik als Gegenstand Bildender Kunst''
			\|Kunsthaus Graz
			\|
	\|}		\|}

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	Andrew Hunt<blockquote>[...] The karaoke event took place between 5pm and 6pm each day, and tracks from the album [[Kangaroo?]] (1981), such as ‘[[Portrait of V. I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock, Part I\|A Portrait of V. I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock]]’ were available to sing along to. Another ‘[[Nine Gross and Conspicuous Errors\|gross and conspicuous error]]’ started to operate here, but this time the question appeared to be, what kind of historical displacement occurs when we the spectators, as blind performers, sing these 24-year-old lyrics? As before, we are complicit in our own bad performance and misreading of these essay-like texts and through a historical distance provide a necessary misinterpretation of [[Art & Language]]’s work. This is an essential component of the group’s practice, and if they represent a resistance to the category of Conceptual art, where a Duchampian model is ‘emptied of its transgressive potential and rendered congenial to the managers of interdisciplinarity’, then maybe this combination of music and politics is something to strive for. If the original intention of these irreconcilable forces was to ‘stress the grammar and the sense of the text to the point of oblivion’, then through the lens of history this partnership at least still appears alien and strange, but for different reasons. When current bands are mimicking the urgency of outfits from the late 1970s, minus the political awareness, and younger artists and curators are fixated on radical models but lacking any real substance, there’s another, unwitting form of historical karaoke operating. Perhaps what we need right now are more deliberately irresponsible yet ‘real’ collaborations of this sort.</blockquote>		Andrew Hunt<blockquote>[...] The karaoke event took place between 5pm and 6pm each day, and tracks from the album [[Kangaroo?]] (1981), such as ‘[[Portrait of V. I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock, Part I\|A Portrait of V. I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock]]’ were available to sing along to. Another ‘[[Nine Gross and Conspicuous Errors\|gross and conspicuous error]]’ started to operate here, but this time the question appeared to be, what kind of historical displacement occurs when we the spectators, as blind performers, sing these 24-year-old lyrics? As before, we are complicit in our own bad performance and misreading of these essay-like texts and through a historical distance provide a necessary misinterpretation of [[Art & Language]]’s work. This is an essential component of the group’s practice, and if they represent a resistance to the category of Conceptual art, where a Duchampian model is ‘emptied of its transgressive potential and rendered congenial to the managers of interdisciplinarity’, then maybe this combination of music and politics is something to strive for. If the original intention of these irreconcilable forces was to ‘stress the grammar and the sense of the text to the point of oblivion’, then through the lens of history this partnership at least still appears alien and strange, but for different reasons. When current bands are mimicking the urgency of outfits from the late 1970s, minus the political awareness, and younger artists and curators are fixated on radical models but lacking any real substance, there’s another, unwitting form of historical karaoke operating. Perhaps what we need right now are more deliberately irresponsible yet ‘real’ collaborations of this sort.</blockquote>

			=== See This Sound: Audiovisuology: A Reader ===
			2015

			Christian Höller

			<ref>https://www.see-this-sound.at/essays_en/SeeThisSound_Deaf-Dumb-Mute-Blind.pdf#page=16</ref><blockquote>Between 1976 and 1983, the conceptual art group Art & Language engaged in a series of musical collaborations with the rock band The Red Krayola, which they revisited in 2005 in their installation ''Karaoke Bar''. The setting of this work is modeled on the typical layout of a karaoke bar: two benches face the standard karaoke projection of lines of text against a blue background, with the lines changing from red to yellow as the song progresses; a cocktail table holds a microphone, which visitors are free to use; the wall sports a gallery of posters that shed light on the historical context of the collaboration. Visitors to karaoke bars can usually consult thick catalogs listing the numerous sing-along songs available; Art & Language and The Red Krayola provide copies of magazines such as ''[[The Fox]]'' and ''[[Art-Language]]'', which in the mid-1970s expounded the group’s theoretical superstructure. Likewise, the posters on the wall are not typical for the setting, but rather include record sleeves and posters taken from ''Art-Language''. For example, the collection features the grotesquely misshapen and coiled man, arms extended like a snail’s antennae, who graced the cover of ''[[Corrected Slogans]]'' (1976, re-released in 1982), as well as woodcut-like industrial workers in the style of popular socialist realist iconography. The music featured in ''Karaoke Bar'' consists of the joint recordings by Art & Language and The Red Krayola, in which catchy refrains alternate with unconventional recitatives with Marxist-Leninist language. Even thirty years after their composition, they have lost none of their historical incisiveness.</blockquote><ref>http://www.see-this-sound.at/essays_en/SeeThisSound_Deaf-Dumb-Mute-Blind.pdf#page=6</ref><blockquote>[...] An example of an entirely different approach to dealing with both sensory overloads and sensory deficits is the ''Karaoke Bar'' created in 2005 by Art & Language together with The Red Krayola. This installation also focuses on rock music’s historical radical potential (or loss of it), and it, too, translates its manifestations into a contemporary form of everyday entertainment architecture. However, the position of the viewers is quite different than that in [Mike] Kelley’s work, for they are incorporated into the image/sound configuration in an entirely different manner. Not in the sense that an attempt is made to ''compensate'' visually or by means of an installation for what is otherwise not representable in terms of musical possibilities of boundary transgression; instead, the musical source material is in a sense ''overcoded'' with both artificial installational and everyday cultural means. Thus, the endeavor is not to compensate the excess of ''one'' medium (e.g., sound) by ''another'' (e.g., visual excess); rather, the ''compensation'', if this is the correct term, takes place at the multisensorial and, ultimately, intellectual level.

			The essence of this overcoding is significant breaks inserted into almost all aspects of the karaoke arrangement. Thus, the scrolling texts (and the accompanying music) are not just average pop fare, but rather consist of excerpts from the albums that Art & Language and The Red Krayola recorded together between 1976 and 1983. At that time, the two bands were experimenting with applying a pop-song format to extracts from Marxist theory, seditious pamphlets, slogans reshaped as poetry, historical aperçus, and the like, and they were giving generous musical scope to the resulting mutual breaks. Even thirty years later, this blending of forms made up of catchy refrains, unconventional recitatives, and Marxist diction ("And we will be fed / Breakfast in bed / And served by a fat millionaire") has lost none of its incisiveness. The breaks created by the old periodicals displayed in the installation (''The Fox'' and ''Art-Language'') and the posters taken from them and hung on the walls are also consistent with the format. This mix creates an atmosphere that, while formally corresponding to the setting of a singing booth, is actually diametrically opposed to it thematically.

			Finally, the installation includes an extremely significant modification of the conventional karaoke setting. Whereas in the usual karaoke the instrumental versions of songs are played and participants sing the lyrics, in the work of Art & Language and The Red Krayola the integral original versions, including the singing, are played. The supposed moment of empowerment granted to hobby vocalists in the conventional setting is denied them here, or at least there is no attempt to make it the defining characteristic of the elaborate installation. While anyone can sing or bellow along as heartily as he or she wishes, the installation does not depend on the participation aspect, the subjective factor, so to speak. It is as though the artists do not want to saddle the visitors with responsibility or with the obligation to recognize the music (given that it is known only to the initiated). Or as though any visitors familiar with the sounds could join in the singing as the whim takes them, as has always been the case for pop fans listening at home or at public concerts, without any particular guidance being required.

			The sensory overload orchestrated here is entirely unspectacular, if not to say unremarkable. The only element that does not fit are the above-mentioned breaks within the conventional, but here strangely reconstructed setting of the karaoke bar. The choice of the installation format leads ''Karaoke Bar'' to expose a sensorium in which almost every aspect of music reception (e.g., the songs, the original sound, the read-along texts, diverse accessories, posters, magazines) is individually addressed, indeed is practically spelled out in full. It is as if nothing should be left to chance when it comes to listening to this music; as if the degree of freedom with respect to an art form that once promised liberty were laid down in advance. What is missing from the installation, therefore (notwithstanding that they are overaddressed), are the visitors themselves. Through the abundance of media in the installation, the visitors are reminded of how creative and empowering it must have been to receive music in quite another way—whether in private or at concerts. In contrast, the ''détournement'' of the popular karaoke booth format, in which the musical added value is channeled in the direction of an omnisensorial stimulation, reveals the degree of ''muffling'' of the recipient (to put it pointedly) that accompanies today’s frequent overdetermination of music reception. This muffling is counteracted by the breaks in the installation, and it is this tension that lends the work its relevance and value.</blockquote>

	== References ==		== References ==

	[[Category:Works by Art & Language]]		[[Category:Works by Art & Language]]

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	== Background ==		== Background ==
	<ref>~~https~~://~~www~~.~~tate~~.~~org.uk~~/~~art~~/~~artworks~~/~~art-language~~-karaoke-~~t14218~~</~~ref~~>[[File:Karaoke-Bar-photo2.jpg\|thumb\|upright\|2015<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/8ZlAmZOZnD/</ref>]]		2005<ref>http://1995-2015.undo.net/it/mostra/25514</ref><blockquote>In their first exhibition for three years (11th May - 2nd July) famed Conceptual Art collaborative Art & Language are to present new works at The Lisson Gallery, amongst other things including a daily karaoke show. [...] daily from 5-6 pm the space will be turned into the Art & Language Café with Karaoke and drinks.</blockquote>[[File:Karaoke-Bar-photo2.jpg\|thumb\|upright\|2015<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/8ZlAmZOZnD/</ref>]]

	== Track list ==		== Track list ==
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	* [[An Old Man's Dream]]		* [[An Old Man's Dream]]
	* [[Hedges]]		* [[Hedges]]
			Total length: 41:10<ref>https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/art-language-karaoke-t14218</ref>

	== Exhibitions ==		== Exhibitions ==

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	== Background ==		== Background ==

	* Discussed in {{RLink\|LettersRK12}}
	<ref>https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/art-language-karaoke-t14218</ref>[[File:Karaoke-Bar-photo2.jpg\|thumb\|upright\|2015<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/8ZlAmZOZnD/</ref>]]		<ref>https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/art-language-karaoke-t14218</ref>[[File:Karaoke-Bar-photo2.jpg\|thumb\|upright\|2015<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/8ZlAmZOZnD/</ref>]]

	== Track list ==		== Track list ==
	Incomplete list		Incomplete list (possibly 13 tracks)
	* [[Portrait of V. I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock, Part I]]		* [[Portrait of V. I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock, Part I]]
	* [[Marches No's 23, 24, 25]]		* [[Marches No's 23, 24, 25]]