Compulsive Obedience
- ArtBomb
- Aug 6
- 1 min read
(2021) John B Ledger | 6m
ArtBomb'25 | Saturday 16 August | 11am-1pm @ Unitarian Church
Compulsive Obedience is one of a series of situational spoken word video-pieces I made during the 2020/21 pandemic.
However, the motif of the plague doctor, holding the chancellor’s briefcase precedes the pandemic, and was actually an avatar through which I brought together elements of my own psyche, with what I saw as the contemporary English psyche, or what I prefer to call ‘a specifically English kind of trauma’.
In light of this, Compulsive Obedience, is about self-hatred, people-pleasing, and an inability to stand up for oneself both personally and politically, and this leads to misdirected frustrations and contempt and ‘punching downwards’, either on a personal or collective level.
WARNING: THIS FILM CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE & REFERENCES TO VIOLENCE.
