APPROPRIATION

Tom Cruise On: Tom Cruise Scientology

My appropriation piece is a 9:34 projected video on loop of Tom Cruise talking about Scientology in 2008 in an interview which the church of Scientology tried to suppress probably because Cruise comes off as an insane person.
I think it would be interesting if this was projected in a gallery space because it’s amusing to see Tom Cruise’s obnoxious laughs and the repetitively tense mission impossible theme song playing over a disorientating, incoherent explanation of Scientology with horrendous transitions and low production quality. Videos in galleries tend to be drab and depressing so it’d be a good break to just have a laugh at an egotistical actor and the most toxic cult to hit Hollywood since the Manson family.
It could also trigger a response from Scientology which would be funny, maybe get sued, harassed, and spied on.
I got the idea from ‘Candice Breitz – Love Story / Alec Baldwin Julianne Moore’ in which Alec Baldwin and Julianne Moore rub their egos through the words of refugees.