Slideshow Johnny, Waterproof

The video is one in a series of portraits of the fictional artist Johnny, in which Skauen probes phenomena of media culture and our engagement with it. Stringing together still shots, he combines them with a running soundtrack: Johnny plays the guitar and sings a heavy metal song. His words are almost unintelligible because he sticks his head in a bucket filled with water. Subtitles reveal the intended critique: the final line of the lyrics is “Mute the words that tell the truth.”