Angel Assassins is one of 15 artworks by Mark Swindle, part of the collection “Target Practice, a peaceful exhibit“
The exhibition premiered at Gallery Opening, in the Canyelles neighborhood of Barcelona, Spain on March 12, 2022.
“What if someone had put a bullet in Adolf Hitler’s head before he rose to power in 1933? Can you look at all the people displayed on the clock’s circumference without having feelings of hatred aroused, of wanting at least one or two of them dead?!”
This imagines an online game played on the Dark Web using cryptocurrency. Twice/day—when the hour and minute hands synchronize position at 12—whichever one of the World’s Most Hated People—drawn from websites like these 1, 2, 3, etc—has had their bounty bid to the highest level will become a contract available to the world’s most cold-blooded assassins!
The concept grew out of discussions over a decade in which one disaster followed another and we watched helplessly as the strong fed relentlessly on the weak, the environment continued toward catastrophe, the levers of government came increasingly under the control of special interests and more and more of the world’s wealth became consolidated in the hands of the 1% of the 1%…and as activists, environmentalists, labor reformers and political opponents were murdered with impunity.
This game explicitly promotes non-violent means of achieving change, progress and justice!
Visit the Angel Assassins website for a comprehensive look:
This work is kinetic/3D. The video provides an immersive 3D interaction, overcoming the limitations of still photography:
Materials: antique clock issued by US Navy, discovered at Glories market, Barcelona; epoxy resin; 50 glow-in-the-dark skulls; 31 printed disks (targets); 13 printed disks (assassinated); Photoshopped background images (
Dimensions: 50cm diameter x 7cm, 4.4kg