JUSTIN JAECKLE

Jaeckle will screen Saturday Night Fever, swapping the soundtrack with that of Quadrophenia and adding sculptural and pictorial additions to the exhibition space that will act as appendices to the film and its content.

Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night was the title of a 1975 New York Magazine article by British rock journalist Nik Cohn. It was the basis for the plot and characters in the movie Saturday Night Fever.

Originally, the article was published as a piece of factual reporting. However, around the time of the twentieth anniversary of the film, Cohn revealed that the article was actually a work of fiction. "My story was a fraud," he wrote. "I'd only recently arrived in New York. Far from being steeped in Brooklyn street life, I hardly knew the place. As for Vincent, my story's hero, he was largely inspired by a Shepherd's Bush mod whom I'd known in the Sixties, a one-time king of Goldhawk Road."

The films Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Quadrophenia (1979) are exactly the same length, at 114 minutes.

An exchange of soundtracks serves as the premise for an exhibition that will function as a live experiment in synchronicity and discord: an abstracted documentary on the translation of youth sub-cultures, and a survey of a period in time and the timeless act of escapism.