audioswap 5

audioswap5 is a prank and ongoing performance on the popular video sharing website YouTube, situating JODI’s action in the context of internet folklore. With their literal act of transferring content from a digital back to an analogue medium, from YouTube to vinyl records and back, the artists Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans raise a discussion about copyright, re-use and remix, copy and original. The title audioswap refers to a service of YouTube which encourages users to replace the (illegal, copyrighted) audio track of an uploaded video with a ‘legal’ one provided by YouTube itself.