Exhibition23 Aug – 16 Nov 2024
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’…
Mochu: Great Chain of Stains or Incompatible Rationalities on the Web reading group
An unscripted conversation, watching-and-reading group with artist and writer Mochu exploring the possibilities and impossibilities of experimental writing after the internet.
We’ll begin with a group viewing of Mochu’s video installation GROTESKKBASILISKK! MINERAL MIXTAPE (showing as part of This Hideous Replica) about cyberpunk ruins and imperial nostalgia, before turning attention to the book Bezoar Delinqxenz (Sternberg Press, 2023), described as a mixtape simulation of entanglements at the borderlands of fiction, insanity, and political emancipation.
“Shiva Trance. OmdruidZ. Mistletoejamachines. Sufi Tardigrades. Chillum Beatbox Exhalation Grind. Baba Chthonix Nihil Acoustica. Limbs flew apart. Sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch all swarmed about as minor particles, nails and hair all waves, sexual fluids launched on antigravity trajectories merged with hair dyes, eyeshadows, nail polishes, and lip glosses. Spherical bodies, stick faces, and spit tentacles. Clique-fucq at the speed of teqqno-sweat. Organs shot out of Earth with musical engine propulsion. In somewhat of a crookedly dark variation, Hands Receivers had his party crowd grooving as Theory without Organs (TwO), a lethally deregulated state of bodily crack-up, open to the diagramming of theory as an uncontrollable post-organicist extremophilia, characterized by superconductive acceleration into throbbing political mastery.”
excerpt from Bezoar Delinqxenz (Sternberg Press, 2023
Presented with ADM+S and non/fictionLab
First Site Gallery
Basement, 344 Swanston Street, Melbourne
This program is a part of Replica School. A replica of a school, a school of replication. A hideous school foregrounding replication. An expanded program of performances, talks, workshops, screenings and other uncanny encounters taking place at RMIT and various venues in Melbourne.
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