BBB Group 12

Group 12 Boot Journal Make a funeral of everyday life. Group 12 investigates phenomena that employ a gothic spirit. We consider goth and gothic style through a lens of architecture, visual art, philosophy and music.  Features: Antoni Gaudí / Joan Miró, The Sisters of Mercy, Hauntology, Xmal Deutschland / 23 Envelope, Peter Murphy / Maxell. The importance of spectacular subcultures here is not that they represent the whole of 'youth' in some homogenous 'youth culture' but, in their practices of 'winning space' within and against the hegemonic order, they constitute fragile, transient and minority forms, issuing symbolic challenges to the dominant culture and its definitions.  Nik Fiend, of the band Alien Sex Fiend, recalls "The Batcave really was an alternative to whatever else time, an alternative independent. It was the perfect outlet for doing something that made no sense. I was always into Alice Cooper but I was also into Salvador Dali, so for me it was an opportunity to do s