Careless Twitter by POTUS

Created by KENNETH TIN-KIN HUNG
www.TinKin.com

This installation consists of a 5 minutes long 4K video and a Vaporwave inspired Karaoke lounge. The installation first debuted at Station Museum of Contemporary Art in Houston, Texas.


Artist Statement:

“Careless Twitter by POTUS” is a derivative karaoke music video that aims to address the polarized political landscape under US president Donald Trump. The parody video adopts the misogynistic and xenophobic language tones of Donald Trump, substitutes the lyrics of George Michael’s “Careless Whispers” with racist and sexist wordings as if it was sung by a fascist demagogue. The satire video seeks to reflect Donald Trump’s right-wing populism and white nationalism, and offers a bird’s eye view of how the POTUS utilizes Alt-right and Identitarian Movement to divide United States in order to conquer and rule. The video records the vehement opposition to multiculturalism, feminism, immigration, and also touches on Donald Trump’s impact on corporatocracy, climate change, energy policy and related environmental damages and gender inequality.

In an era of Emoji being the fastest growing visual system of communication, the video adopts animated GIF’s “looped, extended and repeated” format, and scrutinizes how personal political expressions are being produced, replicated and mutated in online conversations. A mashup of hate speech imageries from Stormfront.org and 4chan’s /pol/ board, animated GIFs from Tumblr and Giphy, internet memes and other “Prosumers” citizen-generated contents, the video examines current political disparities within the realm of Social Media, through the lens of our Read/Write culture.


In Depth Details:

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Lyrics:

Careless Twitter by POTUS

(parodies of Careless Whisper by George Michael)

I would love to send
my careless twitter
down your throat my friend
I am your sunshine
the best of all mankind
I prove myself at voting booth
Kiss my feet you little swine

Build a wall with my tiny hands
Corporate greed rules the system
Put Equality to an end
Divide, conquer and rule

Stick your head back to your rear end
Grab you by the pussy and I’m forgiven
Make America White Again
It’s fun to fuck with you

Hey babe I will make sure
use my tiny hands and
bring you to Roy Moore
nobody’s gonna die
let us cum in your eyes
we’ll silent your loudest scream
its fun to hear you cry

Build a wall with my tiny hands
Corporate greed rules the system
Put equality to an end
Divide, conquer and rule

Stick your head back to your rear end
Grab you by the pussy and I’m forgiven
Make America White Again
It’s fun to fuck with you

Let’s roundup all the racist crowds
We should all be loud n’ proud
White way is the Right way
Cum is white we need more bukkake
Let’s bleach our shitholes together
Send immigrants back to wherever
One race, One nation, Follow me
I slay

Build a wall with my tiny hands
Corporate greed rules the system
Put equality to an end
Divide, conquer and rule

Stick your head back to your rear end
Grab you by the pussy and I’m forgiven
Make America White Again
It’s fun to fuck with you

It won’t take long
(it won’t take long)
Make them all gone, all gone
I am throwing you a bone


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Tags: Installation, Interactive, Performance, Video, YR 2016-Now

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