EDITION

Vocal Cord Parasite

Text by Jamie Sutcliffe, Art by Hardeep Pandhal, Design by Hugh Frost

Published on the occasion of Trouble In Outer Heaven: Portable Ops Plus at Southwark Park Galleries, 2021

Reflecting on the evolving nature of the Military-Entertainment Complex, this illustrated publication by Jamie Sutcliffe and Hardeep Pandhal considers the cross-contamination of martial agendas with civilian leisure activities. Designed by Hugh Frost and published by Landfill Editions, Vocal Cord Parasite reproduces two texts by Sutcliffe that span the last five years and includes a new drawing by Pandhal. Confronting the uneasy ecstasies of fandom, the texts look to Metal Gear’s strange arsenal of biological weapons, off-shore para-states, and nano-machine infected bodies to make tentative sense of how fan enthusiasms might be manifest - or misconstrued - as forms of rapturous, and yet sometimes harmful, possession.

Email me at jamierobertsutcliffe@gmail.com if you’d like a free copy!