Exhibition8 Feb – 23 Mar 2019
The Model Citizen
Are you a model citizen? Meet the micro lenses of surveillance and audit culture; the algorithm of benign search engines; the political…
Artist Panel – What is a Model Citizen?
How can modelling in art create new forms of creative expression?
How can modelling citizenship become an activist and activating intervention into the way one understands one’s role in the social and political world, as well as the role that art plays in transforming the modern agora?
In this panel, artists Sean Redmond, Sadia Sadia, Lyn McCredden, Polly Stanton and David Cross will address the twin conceits of The Model Citizen (8 Feb – 23 March) exhibition at RMIT Gallery.
Each artist will talk about their own work in the exhibition, to energise and anchor the discussion. The panel will end with a Q & A.
Image: Polly Stanton, Indefinite Terrains, 2018-2019, drone footage (still) and audio, courtesy of the artist
The Model Citizen (8 Feb – 23 March) invites audiences to decide what sort of citizens they want to be. From harvesting the data of the dead to hybrid bio robot citizens, the high stakes are explored in this compelling new exhibition.
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