Sung (2018) ︎

Video installation made up of looped HD video, and interactive karaoke booth. Sung complicates the strategy of patriotic football chants by subverting the lyrics and disassociating the tune from its regional specificity. Creating a medley of popular songs like Angels by Robbie Williams, Freed from Desire by GALA and My Achy Breaky Heart by Billie Ray Cyrus, asking the viewer to directly implicate himself or herself in the project by singing the words. Exploring how an otherwise benign song can become a political weapon when placed in certain contexts, Igwe questions our complicity in nation building when we participate in “innocuous” sporting fan subculture.

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Image 1: Documentation of Sung from World Cup! (2018). Photo by Guy L'Heureux. Image 2: Still from Sung (2018). Courtesy of the artist. Image 3: Still from Sung (2018). Courtesy of the artist. Image 4: Documentation of Sung from World Cup! (2018). Photo by Guy L'Heureux. Image 5: Documentation of Sung from World Cup! (2018). Photo by Guy L'Heureux.