The Mass Psychology of Fascism, Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, Zip-a-dee-ay
Adam Geczy & Mike Parr
Art Gallery of New South Wales.
The work "comprises 2 screens at right angles to each other. Loud guitar chords pound out of one speaker, a cacophony of incomprehensible voices from the other. Against the opposite wall is an immense pile of newspapers. On one screen we see Parr projected upside down, sitting limply holding an Australian flag, his face criss-crossed with thread sewn into his flesh. On the other screen we see footage of the sewing itself in lurid red close up. Fear passes over Parr’s features as the needle approaches and blood splatters onto his shirt as it punctures his flesh. The footage is from Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi (Democratic Torture), a performance from May 2003 at Sydney’s Performance Space". (Dan Edwards, RealTime issue #60 April-May 2004 pg. 36)
