Chorus

Chorus re-writes Albert Hay Malotte’s choral rendering of ‘The Lord’s Prayer’ using hashtagged words appropriated from existing Instagram posts connected to the ‘clean eating’ food and lifestyle trend. The dyad of contemporary food culture and the musical score for one of the most well-known prayers in Christianity signals the collectivity and influence that the hashtagging of specific words and phrases can carry in certain online contexts. All the hashtags used in Chorus also featured in Worth’s previous year-long Instagram based performance-drawing titled A Drawing Made by Cutting Up My Body Weight in Celery (2016–17). A karaoke version of Chorus featured in Worth’s 2018 exhibition FEED at Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne, this version was originally created for Instagram as a series of videos: returning the recomposed language to the site from which it was sourced.