Jack Prest

 Sincere Input was the third project for Jack Prest’s Art-Pop Interdisciplinary project, Future Love Hangover, conducted in 2018. The project included; an album of experimental art-pop music in collaboration with Ben Freeman and Miles Sharma-Constance, photography, design and web elements in collaboration with Jordan Charles Stokes, visual art objects and happenings in collaboration with Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier, videos and documentation in collaboration with Daniel O’Toole, Cosima Lara Wood and Lucca Barone-Peters.

The project built on the conceptual framework developed in the first two Future Love Hangover projects extending them with more in-depth collaborations and a move away from the science fiction narrative. Sincere Input aimed to present a stream of consciousness of interdisciplinary creative material. Concepts were developed and executed in real time providing a direct connection between the creative process and the audience.

Sincere Input was presented in a purpose built website (or exposure) for the streaming and download of the album. With the rising popularity of streaming the concept of downloading the music in a digital form seemed secondary to the importance of providing a digital space where the music could exist with it’s own feel and aesthetic, similar to the way a physical vinyl or CD has the artwork which accompanies the release. This was a reaction against the homogenisation of the imagery surrounding modern streaming that is housed within the branding of the streaming service provider, eg. Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp etc. As with the previous two FLH albums a download was unlocked by the listener making it to the end of the album playback. Again you purchased this album with time rather than money. The website and album cover were designed by Jordan Charles Stokes.

Listen to the album and experience the website here.

Check out the video below where Jack talks about the process behind the project.

In a re-contextualisation of the “album launch” (a common marketing practice within the music industry, where an artist plays a live show to promote the release of new music) Jack conducted a series of happenings to coincide with the release of music from the Sincere Input album. These happenings were in collaboration with visual artists Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier. The video above is made from documentation of the first happening at Camperdown Memorial Rest Park, Newtown, Sydney, Australia. It involved the song Out Of Space playing on repeat via the headphones dangling from the pink backpack art object. The public were invited to listen to the song and interact with Jack. This performance was extended into a second happening, in partnership with City Of Sydney outside the Museum of Contemporary Art, and an exhibition at Erskineville Town Hall.