Vinnie Vinyl & Whisk exhibition. SKC, Belgrade April 4th - 14th 2005

30 A4 card featuring the "Vinnie Vinyl" cartoon strip. Above each piece was suspended a "Whisk" CD.

Sasha Markovic: Mikrob in performance in the same room.

Vinnie Vinyl and Whisk

The first piece of work is a story told in a series of 29 cartoon pictures featuring a character named “Vinnie Vinyl”. This is a group project led by Mixup (Stephen Howard). Also in the group are Phil Kirk, Ian Kirk, Sam Howard and Ivan Bainbridge.
Vinnie Vinyl is a collector of records and CD’s and all things to do with popular music. In this age of CD’s, Digital formats and downloading from the internet it has made it a particularly good time for collecting vinyl records which are being discarded by many people. Junk shops and in particular Charity shops (of which there are many in the UK) are a great place to find cheap bargains. It’s in such places that we placed Vinnie.
The work was drawn in black ink on white card then scanned and coloured using Photoshop and saved as files which were then produced on a finished card from a photocopy machine.

My second piece of work is called “Whisk” and features artwork and designs which I have made to illustrate the CDR record label I founded in 2001. This label is the home of bootlegs, rare records transferred to CDR, downloaded oddities, unusual compilations and other items which I can’t catalogue elsewhere in my music collection. The interaction with other people over the internet often leads to a new Whisk CD being created.
The CD cover artwork uses images found on the internet, my own artwork, then adapted for my idea. Information and a catalogue number give the CD a finished identity. They are produced on “Easy CD” CD label creator and simply printed from any computer. I catalogue them on my website at www.mixup.org.uk where they can be seen by other interested music lovers.

Mixup, April 2005