The Function Room is upstairs at The Cock Tavern, 23 Phoenix Road, London NW1 1HB
Thursday 6 November 2014, 630 pm: performance and launch of The 9 Lives of Ray the Cat Jones by Stewart Home, co-operation with Test Centre at The Function Room
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Max Factor advertising campaign (1968) featuring photos of Julia Callan-Thompson
The 60s are well and truly over. Naked self-interest has destroyed any sense of solidarity there once was on the drug scene, and our little world is an increasingly brutalised place. I’m glad I’m not young any more.
Stewart Home in Tainted Love (2005)
Two sets of eight images, ten years apart. A third set, the original, seen only through the others, dates from 1966. Then, the model, 22, was Julia Callan-Thompson, the mother, missing person, apparently a club hostess, fashion model, aspirant actress, hippie, hard drug user and doyenne of West London Bohemia. Then, first repetition, 2004, the son, 42, restages the shoot, adopts the mother’s pose and is photographed, original and copy are merged: Becoming (M)Other. Then, next repetition, 2014, the son, 52, restages the shoot, adopts the mother’s pose and is photographed, copy and copy are merged: The Age of Anti-Ageing.
