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—a concoction 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.

Mochu, GROTESKKBASILISKK! MINERAL MIXTAPE, 2022 Image: Mochu, GROTESKKBASILISKK! MINERAL MIXTAPE, 2022, digital video (still), Image courtesy of the artist.

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This Hideous Replica

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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—a concoction 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.

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A celebration of the work of prolific First Nations songman and proud Mutti Mutti, Yorta Yorta and Nari Nari man Kutcha Edwards, alongside the Australian Art Orchestra (AAO)

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RMIT Alumni UK Annual Dinner

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RMIT's annual alumni dinner in London brings together the University's esteemed alumni community in the UK and beyond.

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