Part of the Seeing the Scene Series
I enjoy doing this series because each interview teaches me something new about punk’s diverse visual culture. I am most familiar with photography—photographs themselves but also the ways that photographs work together to tell stories. However, I appreciate opportunities to have conversations with other punks about punk art that can stretch my thinking about current and historical punk culture. Maria Buszek is an art historian. She is broadly interested in feminist popular culture with specific interests in punk and post-punk art histories. I have read her work in the past and was excited to meet her this past summer at the 2024 Punk Scholars Network conference in Chicago. We agreed to talk for the Seeing the Scene series about the unique and overlapping histories of punk art (especially in the U.S. and the U.K.). I wanted to know how Maria understood various art modalities used by punks and her thoughts about the proliferation of art shows and museums dedicated to punk art.
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