Neptune Social Club is a video work that stages the collapse of meaning through the unstable interplay of sound, image, and presence. At its core is a sonic architecture: fragments of spoken language that initially suggest coherence, logic, even narrative, but are ultimately revealed as the accumulation of randomly generated imagery. This slippage between apparent causation and actual correlation exposes the futility of meaning-making, revealing speech as both seductive and hollow — a ritual of signification without substance.
The visual field is anchored by a lead figure who flickers in and out of existence, oscillating between real and simulated states. Their unstable presence destabilises the very ontological ground of the work: the body refuses to be fixed, inhabiting neither reality nor representation, but instead a collapsing threshold between the two. This flicker produces a liminal zone — a space that is not simply in-between but is itself a rupture, where categories such as actual/virtual, authentic/fabricated, cause/effect, no longer hold.
The work’s sonic and visual strategies together embody the condition of anomie and the absurd. Language, usually the guarantor of meaning, becomes meaningless through excess; ritualised gestures persist without belief; decisions and actions loop without consequence. What remains is not resolution, but Camus’s absurd theatre: the confrontation with a world that resists our search for order.
In Neptune Social Club, sound and image collude to demonstrate the instability of correlation and causation — how patterns appear to emerge, how causality is inferred, and how easily coherence is fabricated in the absence of truth. Yet this is not simply a deconstruction, but a speculative anthropology of futility: a portrait of ritual enacted in the void, of speech emptied of content, of a body adrift between the real and the simulated.
Ultimately, Neptune Social Club refuses closure. It operates as both ceremony and anti-ceremony, parody and elegy, an existential diagram of meaninglessness staged through the material instability of sound and image.