Bodies of Work

Freud Democracy (6)
2007/2009
Single-channel karaoke video, men's t-shirt, glass, sound (which is actually for Lamp Drama, and features the diegetic bird sounds that Godard uses)
52:36

Installation detail

Exhibition venue: National Gallery of Canada, 2009

The text in this karaoke is the entire script of the film, including all the voice-over work. At times the voice is a text from Mein Kampf, or Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice, or a trashy pulp novel crime-thriller, as well as all the script from the political vignettes that Godard wrote. All of these voices are flattened out into the colour field of the karaoke video, which one can read along at the actual pace of the text in the film.