The Wildlife Archive comprises over 5,000 items of dance culture ephemera dating back to the early 1970’s.

For this exhibition, the archive presented Altered States, which forms part of an ongoing body of research focused on the era’s surrounding the first and second summer(s) of love exploring the aesthetics that interlink both summers with a specific focus on the communal experience of music.

History records the first summer of love as 1967 centered primarily on the city of San Francisco, USA and the second summer of love as 1988 across various cities in England, UK, although both summer’s reverberated geographically and into the future creating a psychedelic continuum.

This installation offers a visual sample of printed materials that highlight the shared graphic language of flyers, handbills & postcards that advertised the be-ins, dance concerts, acid tests, club nights and raves of each era alongside supplementary printed matter that serves to further provide visual context.