Alt-Right Arabesque continues Pailthorpe’s interest in the performing digital body, yet with a new focus on the aesthetics of the resurgent and re-branded fascism (the so-called Alt-right). The sickly-looking protagonist in this work symbolises the infamous 4chan moderator or frequent Reddit user, who spectacularly twirls en arabesque in box-fresh Nike Airmax. A variety of surreal political imagery, visual references and cinematic techniques long associated with fascism and propaganda in the history of cinema are combined in this animation to create a strange and intense response to the overwhelming weirdness of 2016.
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