The results of his media archaelogy are a funny, ironic and intriguing snapshot of American vernacular architecture in the 1980s. Fischer has just published a limited-edition booklet with 68 of the images. The images are posted to a Tumblr along with the band’s name, ZIP code, and a snippet of the original review. He then looks the addresses up on Google Street View, taking screengrabs of the houses as they currently appear (or as they appeared in 2011 or whenever the Google camera car was last by). For the project, Fischer pulls the street addresses from contact listings for bands both reasonably well-known and impossibly arcane, as listed in back issues of the punk magazine Maximumrocknroll from the 1980s.
Hardcore Architecture is a project by Chicago artist Marc Fischer exploring the relationship between domestic spaces, urban and suburban neighborhoods, and underground hardcore and punk bands of the 1980s.
