Based on drawings from 1997, Jeremy Deller’s screenprint ‘History of the World’ (1998) is a captivating exercise in shared experience. Rendered in the ever‐familiar visual language of chalkboards, the artist produced a mind map to uncover the social, political and musical connections between house and brass music. Scribbled words like ‘808 State’, ‘Civic Pride’, ‘Free Parties’ and ‘Deindustrialisation’ are energetically connected to each other by arrows, together composing an intimate work which allows us to follow along in the development of Deller’s intricate thought process...read more