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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 poetry of embodied dance; the veneer of the celebrity citizen; the performative monotony of routine; the bio-power of the viral robot; the ghostly noise of a thousand newsreaders speaking all at once, and the hopeful threads and fibres of participatory culture.

 


 

Artists Asim Bhatti with John McCormick and Adam Nash, David Cross, Larissa Hjorth, Leah Kardos with Sean Redmond, Jondi Keane, Bronek Kozka, Lyn McCredden with Shaun McLeod and Olivia Millard, Patrick Pound with Rowan McNaught, Victor Renolds, Sadia Sadia, Polly Stanton, Darren Verhagen and (((20hz)))

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Bronek Kozka, Model Behaviour, 2018, thermal image. Courtesy of the artist and Bett Gallery, Hobart
Polly Stanton, Indefinite Terrains, 2018-2019, (video still) drone footage and audio. Courtesy of the artist
Sadia Sadia, Ghosts of Noise, 2009-2019, (video still) three-channel video installation with multi-channel audio, duration: 20:00 loop. Courtesy of the artist

 

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