Artist Mark Leckey reminisces over 30 years of British nightclub culture

Artist Mark Leckey, a Turner Prize winner (still on view at MoMA PS1), reminisces over his iconic video Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, "a roughly chronological overview of 30 years of British nightclub culture."

You asked me what kind of a state I was in when I made the video. I was melancholic, bordering on morbid. There’s quite a morbid, haunted quality about it I think. I was haunted by this stuff, and I think I subconsciously made it like a ghost film. There’s something quite eery and spooky about the film. I think when you watch Fiorucci it’s upsetting rather than comforting. I don’t think you watch it and go ‘ah, the good old days!’ I think it deeply saddens you.

Leckey goes on to find current inspiration in subcultures such as Supreme product releases and the alt-right's embrace of Pepe.