In Celebrations for Breaking Routine, Kristin Lucas uses pop music in order to ask young women to delve into a particular social unconscious: how are the future and technology marketed towards them? Taking advantage of the organic freedom that musical creation and experimentation allows, Lucas has opened up a set of ideas that includes feminism, alienation, optimism, flirtation and rage, even exposing the processes that brought together a brass band, a majorette troupe and gallery staff with the musicians and mentors of the bands. The artist's action in this project is to be the producer who creates the relationships needed for these young women to make music, and to confront ideas of "the future" and "technology" with some critical distance.

Like a Lady, Science and Nature and Right to Speak differ from staple pop music fare. Written and performed by relatively new musicians, studio footage of the recordings show shy experimentation and low tech reinvention of the polished performances and highly aestheticised surfaces of mainstream music videos. These songs and their recordings engage groups of people, strategies and issues that don't normally intertwine. Indeed, music now is so completely hemmed in by commercial interests that more explicitly politicised music - whether about gender ideology specifically, or critical issues more broadly - is often met with scepticism. With its karaoke-style set up, the installation disrupts the conventional relationship between music and listeners, and the standard channels of radio, Internet and commerce that connect them.

A response to the heavy commercialism of pop culture, Celebrations for Breaking Routine shares its ambition to create social and cultural networks and legacies using rock music with other contemporaries like artists Jeremy Deller and Le Tigre. Where most collaborative
community efforts are linked to churches, synagogues, or government sponsored initiatives, and most music-making is now dominated by transitory fads and the cycles of international markets, Celebrations for Breaking Routine centres on the flexibility and mobility of "rockin'roll" as a socially bonding and liberating form of entertainment and expression.