ACTION. REACTION. ACTION: VISUALIZING FUGAZI
◊ Teen Idles
Animal Rights Group ◊ Skewbald/Grand Union
Greenpeace Inmate Programs
Jessup Prison Christic Institute Drug Rehab Center IAN Neighbors ConsejoLatin & Homes American Not Youth Jails Center ◊ Egg Hunt
Anti-War Protest
Rally for the Homeless Mayday Celebration THE * * 28th anniversary o * Kent State massacre
Food Not Bombs 20th Anniversary Salvadoran Bank Collapse ◊ Embrace * Supreme Court
ENVIRO/ * Rally on Prison Issues ANIMAL * FUGAZI ANTI- RIGHTS Defend DC Home Rule Casa Del Pueblo * * DRUG $5,000 MLK Anniversary Pailhead * PROTESTS/ * WAR/ RALLIES Protest Against Cuts in PRISON Programs for DC's Needy Washington * FREE SHOWS * FAMILYFree Clinic ISSUES Rally to End the Drug War Whitman-Walker Clinic * * 1987 Women's Shelter LATINO/ $6,200 ◊ The Evens Necessities Women's Center IMMIGRANT 4 1988 * 2 RIGHTS * * 1 * 2 TREE 1989 $16,400 1 * 1 * 4 POSTERCHILDREN 3 2 Safe Passage * 1 1990 Vic Chesnutt PLAYED AT THAT VENUE THAT AT PLAYED 1 2 HEALTH SOULSIDE 1 3
3 SCRAM Women's Crisis Center CLINICS Rock for Choice FIREPARTY 1 1 5 FIDELITYJONES 1991 BADMUTHA GOOSE WOMEN’S $50,200 * 1 3 * THATCHERON ACID 12 SHOWS SHELTERS The four main members of Fugazi— HOLYROLLERS 1 $9,700 11 2 1992 Heartly House 1 4 1 Pigeons Maryland for Choice 5 CIRCLE SIZE SHOWS THE NUMBER OF SHOWS PLAYED WITH FUGAZI IN A GIVEN YEAR VISIONSOF CHANGE 1 Brendan, Guy, Joe, and Ian—have all NOTWIST 1 1993 ABORTION 1 2 1
Clinic Defense Fund ONE D E RIGHTS 1 * 14 1 BANDS ON DISCHORD RECORDS HIGHLIGHTED IN BLUE 2 1994 2 been1 key players in the D.C. music 2 1 $39,000 5 7 Ann Arbor Committee to URGE All Scars CESTA Youth Center YOUTH 1 2 PROHIBITION HEIGHT SHOWS OF = VERTICAL Defend Abortion 8 1995 in Czech Republic 1988 12 1 2 GUY VAMPIRELEZBOS OUTREACH 1 scene since the early1 1980s. Being1 a 1 JAWBOX 5 SPINANES $24,200 2 GIRLSVS. BOYS 15 8 8 1996 1989 5
WARMERS 4 tight knit community, manyUNREST of the PEACE/ 18 7 NATIONOF ULYSSES 1 BEATHAPPENING * Innercity Youth Outreach Programs Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy 1997 ◊ Rites of Spring 1990 ANTI-WAR 6 FUGAZI $21,400 12 1 1 After School Kids TECHAHEAD QUIXOTIC MONORCHID Central Committee for bands shared members. CHISEL AIDS/ 1998 1991 Conscientious Objectors 1 5 UNWOUND 7 GAY RIGHTS 8 SCRAWL 14 * $19,000 GLORIUM 1999 1992 2 25 * ◊ Happy Go Licky 9 Washington Peace Center 4 HOUSE Lexington Peace Center 6 15 FLUF a Gay Rights March Here we see Fugazi’s connections 2000 1993
SHUDDERTO THINK SLANT6 9 HOUSING/ 3 2001 COMMUNITY/1994 HOMELESSNESS * across bands from Dischord2 1 Brief Weeds Living Center Aids Hospice RADIO/ $26,800 11 1 Community for DUBNARCOTIC 2002 AIDS Research 1995 * Creative Non-Violence VENUES Washington Inner City Self-Help Records,9 the D.C. area,1 and beyond, * $23,240 18 MAKEUP * 4 LUNGFISH
BLONDEREDHEAD 1996 National Coalition for the Homeless 12 1 Habitat for Humanity & Anti-Nuke Group by threading together8 bands that 6 2 1 GR EE ◊ One Last Wish SHELLAC ACT-UP 1997 Worcester Common Ground (housing) FARAQUET BRANCHMANAGER * * * have shared members. This network 1998 Homeless Persons 2 Representation Project Alexandria Tenants Association * THEEX Middlesex Interfaith Partners w/ the Homeless Emmaus Services New Space for the Aging quickly expands exponentially 1999 Gilman Street Project Black Light Panthers State of the Union Compilation ARCS SHOW THE
NUMBER OF TIMES BANDS Tower Fund WTUL Radio 2000 with each degree of separation, PLAYED THE SAME BILL Pirate Radio
CMU Radio Station 2001 Organizations encompassing many scenes Deadline FUGAZI & Buck (the dc space bartender) COMMUNITY/CHURCH SPACE UMBC Radio Station UNCONVENTIONAL 2002 Indianapolis Assorted and genres. BRENDAN VENUES Lois CLUB Girls Against Boys Fugazi often played non-tradtional venues in thier home town of ◊ BANDS ON DISCHORD RECORDS Washington, D.C. They played outdoor or in community spaces like churches just asSmithsonian often as they played rock clubs. Here are Folklife Festival & Lost Origin Productions present BANDSan BETWEEN exhibition DEGREES SHARE MEMB ERS Garland of Hours all the venues Fugazi played in D.C., color coded by type, and vertically sized by number of shows at that venue. BANDS ON THE SAME DEGREE SHARE MEM BERS exploring the impact of the band Fugazi, both as musicians and as activists. Felt Letters OUTDOOR SPACE
24 SHOWS 22 20 1
COMMUNITY/CHURCH SPACE OUTDOOR SPACE CLUB HOUSE ◊ Deathfix
Large format data visualizations by Carni Klirs illustrate the elaborate networks ◊ The Messthetics JOE Decahedron of connections the band created, whether touring the world or headliningA VISUAL HISTORY OF FUGAZI | benefit Designed by: Carni Klirs © 2018 concerts & protests in their hometown of Washington, D.C. The exhibition also APRIL 13-MAYThe Black Sea 19 includes visual materials curated by archivist John Davis—fliers, correspondence, Sevens
VISUALIZING THE HISTORY OF F UGAZI at Lost Origins Gallery | Designed by: Carni Klirs © 2018 photographs, fanzines, and more—that further express the meaning of a band Ataxia +138 BANDS that was about more than its music. 3110 Mt Pleasant St NWDC www.lostorigins.gallery This event is co-produced as part of DC: The Social Power of Music