Very Few Good Men

Accession Number ART94854
Collection type Art
Measurement 16:9 ratio, 2:00 minutes, stereo audio
Object type Digital file
Physical description HD colour video
Maker Pailthorpe, Baden
Pailthorpe, Baden
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made 2012
Conflict Period 2010-2019
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Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright

Description

In 'Very Few Good Men' Baden Pailthorpe appropriates footage from a classic military film and pushes it to the limits of abstraction. Drawing on a traditional Marine Corps drill, it becomes the subject of a contemporary remix. Here the military becomes the target of its own aesthetic strategies of uniform, camouflage and deception as the aesthetics of military ritual are subverted, inverted and corrupted to the point of absurdity. What remains is a burst of visual and sonic energy that creates its own formations of aesthetic dominance and political rite.

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