Sue DODD, Phil DODD
Gossip Pop

‘Gossip Pop’ is both label and outcome for this live collaborative music performance and video installation enterprise. A feminist mandate transforms tabloid narratives of celebrity (usually aimed at female audiences) into contemporary art versions of ‘pop’ songs. ‘The tabloid press chooses the subject matter for us… we are simply making songs from what they’re writing about.’

Since its inception in 2002, Gossip Pop has produced over 30 ‘songs’ referencing various pop music genres each of which deals with narratives based on issues of sex, drugs or body image. Thinly masquerading as commercial enterprise, delivering mass-produced entertainment (clues to the DIY construction of the Gossip Pop product are always evident) Gossip Pop aims to motivate the viewer to think about the politics of societies’ (private) obsessions and their implications for our culture.