Reformatted Artifice: Love is a Cattleprod analyzes and re-performs histories of appropriation and its implications relating to the nostalgic mode, an overly financed artworld, post-internet art, and the dead on arrival commodification of vaporwave/meme art. This is framed through the seminal appropriation and extreme “sampling” on the album Tacky Souvenirs of Pre-Revolutionary America by Culturicide.
forgery through replication in the form of a notated/composed renditions, the creation of music videos featuring the victims of Culturcide/time and a book on the album consist and complicate the web of Reformatted artifice and the history of sampling
