The Thousands

Sydney-based art dragsters the Kingpins hardly ever do gallery shows like this. They’re usually doing tracksuit dance routines in Starbucks or karaoke in front of giant appliqued backdrops. This time, though, Angelica Mesiti, Técha Noble, Emma Price and Katie Price are putting on an apocalyptic/2012-themed installation at Neon Parc.

I’m not sure exactly what it’s about, but ‘Spiritus Mundi’ (‘spirit of the world’) refers to the poet William Butler Yeats’ belief that our minds share access to certain universal symbols. It comes from his end-of-the-world poem ‘The Second Coming’, written after the first world war but weirdly appropriate to the internet if you ask me.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Amirite?