Fool's Parade
"Fool’s Parade” is a polyptych video installation inspired equally by intimate conversations within Vin Hill’s family and the Clown Makeup Tutorial meme, which is based on SmiffysFancyDress’s "Male Clown Make-up Tutorial" YouTube video from 2019. Each video channel displays the artist in various states of donning or removing clown makeup while performing text derived from fascist aspects of popular culture and conversations with the artist’s father. This parade of fools journeys through the appearance of compliance with conventional social norms, the guise of Pierrot, an antithesis, and then all in reverse. The channels are in conversation and competition with each other, echoing and opposing their neighbors while trapped within a dialectical loop. The voices of the clowns become simultaneously chorus and cacophony, giving way to accidents, artifacts, and misunderstandings. The video channels are coordinated via custom software running on two computers on a network."