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Anna Vasof: Clone Making Workshop
Greek installation, performance and media-artist Anna Vasof leads an intensive multiday workshop in which participants will construct hideous replicas of themselves which…
This Hideous Replica
Lifting its title from a misheard line in a 1980 song by The Fall about a reclusive dog breeder whose ‘hideous replica’ haunts industrial Manchester, this experimental project—an admixture of artworks, performances, screenings, workshops, a ‘replica school’ and other uncanny encounters—adopts monstrous replication as a tactic, condition and curatorial framework for exploring algorithmic culture, simultaneously alienating, seductive and out-of-control.
Exhibition includes works by Amy May Stuart, Angie Waller, Anna Vasof, Debris Facility, Diego Ramírez, Emile Zile, Joshua Citarella, Liang Luscombe, Loren Adams, Masato Takasaka, Matthew Griffin & Heath Franco and Mochu.
Performances, talks and workshops by Catherine Ryan, Chloë Sobek, Darcy Wedd, Holly Childs, Jennifer Walshe, Joel Sherwood Spring, Machine Listening, McKenzie Wark, Panda Wong, Roslyn Orlando, Tomomi Adachi and more.
Curated by Joel Stern and Sean Dockray.
This Hideous Replica has been produced by RMIT Culture and supported by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S), the RMIT Design and Creative Practice Enabling Impact Platforms and Monash Art, Design and Architecture (MADA). This project is a part of the City of Melbourne’s Now or Never festival. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia and by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria. With hosts Miscellanea, Dogmilk, Omniversal Hum, Make it Up Club, Melbourne Law School.
Image: Mochu, GROTESKKBASILISKK! MINERAL MIXTAPE, 2022, digital video (still), Image courtesy of the artist.
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