Love fucks you up (A Tape for Juliet)

Love fucks you up is a wall based work consisting of large-scale reproductions of inlay cards from compilation cassettes. For the work the artists invited couples to compile home-made audio cassettes for each other. The inlay cards are all hand-written listing the songs recorded on the tape. These songs have been chosen for their shared meaning, their ability to spark a memory and their ability to communicate a message fron the sender to the intended recipient. Iain and Jane took a collection of the inlay cards and digitally enlarged them.

Love fucks you up (A Tape for Simon)

"The poetic potential of each list of lucid titles is brought to the fore. Should the viewer be familiar with a particular song, he or she, at best, can still only imagine its significance to the compiler and receiver of the tape in the light of their own experience. Instead the texts become romantically aspirational lyrical distillations occasionally punctuated by musically associative points of reference." More...

Dan Howard-Birt, Love Letter, Love Letter