This performance celebrates Cocker’s creative friendship with Michael Clark, one of the most exciting cross-disciplinary collaborations in the British cultural landscape.
The set includes exclusive covers of The Velvet Underground’s ‘Venus in Furs’ and The Fall’s ‘Big New Prinz’, a newly arranged version of ‘Further Complications’ from Cocker’s eponymously titled solo album, and ‘House Music All Night Long’ from the latest album by JARV IS… ‘Beyond the Pale’.
Cocker and his band are surrounded by Charles Atlas’s newly-commissioned immersive film installation A Prune Twin (2020), the recreated set of Clark’s collaboration with The Fall for I Am Curious, Orange (1988), and Sarah Lucas’s installation.
Clark and Cocker’s collaboration began with WHO’S ZOO? at the 2012 Whitney Biennial in New York, with Cocker’s former band, Relaxed Muscle. This was followed by New Work 2012, co-commissioned by the Barbican and animal / vegetable / mineral in 2013 at the Barbican. Clark has also been a guest on Jarvis Cocker’s BBC Radio 6 Music Sunday Service, to mark David Bowie’s 65th birthday.
