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’…
Replica School: Model Collapse
Replica School concludes on November 7 with Model Collapse, a slow drift through some sundry spaces of the University, where performances, lectures, improvisations and interventions unfold over the course of the day in basements, hallways, libraries, and lecture rooms. This is a school within a school, a parasite within a parasite. You will not find classes managed by overwrought content management systems that drain the life force out of ideas. You will probably find:
- An introduction to a video essay on humans, dogs, AI and the multitudes they contain, by Sophie Penkethman-Young
- A skilled hand, a cultivated mind. Short songs about hands, performed to a sculpture of a hand, by Jenny Hickinbotham.
- Dada-mined, hardcore prompt engineering with a drill, in RMIT library by Ceri Hann. A hole-istic approach.
- A possible score for university photocopiers and model ferrari by by Marcus McKenzie.
- A pitch deck presentation for mob.io, Indigenous startup, by artist entrepreneur CEO Joel Sherwood Spring.
- Roslyn Orlando’s polyvocal essay in the University’s Council Chambers, tracing a speculative history of large language models.
- Composer James Rushford performance of Austrian genius Gerhard Rühm’s ‘tone poems’ on the RMIT student lounge piano.
- Catherine Ryan’s Two Body Problem, a new experimental lecture-performance that asks what if we had not one, but two bodies.
- Plus, Readings and writings of replicas by members of ‘cheerleading is without spirit’.
And more. End.
This event will take place across RMIT University, starting at RMIT Gallery. Please keep an eye out for session meeting locations to be announced soon.
Session 1, 12:30 – 2:30PM
Meeting point: RMIT Gallery
Joel Stern and Sean Dockray
Sophie Penkethman-Young
Jenny Hickinbotham
Ceri Hann
cheerleading is without spirit
Session 2, 3 – 4:30PM
Meeting point: RMIT Gallery
Marcus McKenzie
Joel Sherwood Spring
Roslyn Orlando
Session 3, 5:30 – 7PM
Meeting point: RMIT Gallery
James Rushford
Catherine Ryan
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