Vapid Cut – PATCH SINCLAIR

VAPID CUT is the first two-person show by frequent collaborators Patch Sinclair and Tessa Rex.

It was installed as a new intermedia body of work in June 2016 at NORTH Contemporary Art Space, an artist-run-initiative [ARI] currently managed by four artists/directors: Tamsin Salehian, Alex Thorby, Ingrid van der Aa + Vicki White.

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From a world where Aaron Carter is bullied out of endorsing Donald Trump for president comes intermedia installation VAPID CUT.

Showcasing drawings, paintings, video edits; cut-ups from the late 80s to present trash, VAPID CUT presents a conflict between both light-hearted and dystopic readings of media.

It applies web aesthetics to paper, time stamping technologies by committing icons and typesetting to the page – the Arial font of Google, the retweet button on Twitter – drawn by hand under the guiding glare of projections.

These works play on the cacophony of assumed knowledge that perhaps we didn’t even know we had.

It’s pop, it’s product and it’s politics. Injected with video installation exploring the horror vacuui (fear of empty spaces) of audio-visual overload, littered with frankenbites and video wipes.

For a jejune reprieve, a quiet booth with a slowly turning party light will be available accompanied by the infamous Opus No.1 Cisco hold music.

In 1976 Foucault said:

‘A day will come when, by means of similitude relayed indefinitely along the length of a series, the image itself, along with the name it bears, will lose its identity. Campbell, Campbell, Campbell.’

Have we reached this day?