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June 17, 2008 12:01 pm
“Honestly, I was sick of seeing the era represented as some kind of joke in movies like Austin Powers,” explained Alastair Gordon at last night’s party for his new book, “Spaced Out: Radical Environments of the Psychedelic Sixties.” “We all know about the drugs and the music, but there was revolutionary stuff going on in terms of the visual culture, too.” A taste of that visual culture was provided courtesy of the light show put on by Tony Martin and USCO, one of the pioneer multimedia collectives of the tune-in, turn-on, drop-out era. Naturally, Gordon was especially eager to see how younger readers would react to the archival photos collected in “Spaced Out.” “We’ve been having such a modernism moment, and for so long, it feels like it’s time for a fresh set of influences,” he said. “The sixties were about a movement, and people forget that, because the whole era has been drowned in kitsch. But if you look around, you sense the same things in the air now.”
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