25/11/2023
Citizen Useless is proud to be included on the 2023 limited vinyl release of Failed States // Creative Resistance.
This triple set of compilations has been produced as part of the Failed States//Creative Resistances project in 2023. The track selection was decided by a local curatorial group in each place: Belfast in the north of Ireland; Banda Aceh in Indonesia; and Prishtina and Prizren in Kosovo.
The project opens space for these punk communities in diverse parts of the world to express a collective identity of their respective scenes and for you to hear it, feel it, and begin to understand it. It also brings these three places into dialogue with each other. We're short-circuiting the centralised flows of neo-colonial culture. Things looks different from the margins, and by putting these peripheral punks in direct contact we are reshaping our understanding of global punk'.
The project's Principal Investigator is Dr Jim Donaghey, with Co-Investigator Dr Robert Porter, based at the School of Communication and Media, Ulster University, Coleraine. The project, and production of this set of compilations, has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) (project reference AH/T007834/1).
The initial pressing run is limited to 300 copies (produced by Sonic Wax Pressing in Wigston Magna, England). There is a two-year embargo on digital versions of these compilations to allow this analogue artefact some space to be disseminated.
Belfast vinyl is Pink / Aceh vinyl is Green / Kosovo vinyl is Yellow - Limited + Numbered edition 300 copies. Triple gatefold sleeve
Main title is "Failed States // Creative Resistances", and appears as such on spine, but appears on front cover as "Failed ̶S̶t̶a̶t̶e̶s̶ Creative Resistances"
Some places to grab a copy or check it out:
https://www.discogs.com/release/28788928-Various-Failed-States--Creative-Resistances
https://kolektivradio.com/failed-states-creative-resistances/
https://distrotable.com/collections/new-releases/products/failed-states-creative-resistance-3x12
https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/persons/jim-donaghey
Contact info:
[email protected]
