Love and Loathing on the Internet
A lecture about art and identity in the digital age
The Dirty Laundry Collective and Union House Theatre invite you to roll out of bed for a playful lecture-performance and forum.
You’ve explored our program of online experiments and encounters – between here and when I tell you. Now, round out your experience with this chance to hear from members of the Dirty Laundry Collective about what even is a web-stage and what did they discover while making it.
Join Dirty Laundry Collective members Alice and Luke to ask: If we’re all performing ourselves online, what’s the difference between digital “art” and everyday expression? How do you safely perform online, maintaining both your own privacy and your audience’s peace of mind? What are we missing out on, when we’re looking at art on the internet?
Saturday morning is as good a time as any to ask the big questions – join our creative team as they as playfully search for meaning in a digital-art-age.
When: Saturday 24 October at 11am
Duration: 60mins
Location: Zoom
Cost: Free
Register: dirtylaundrylove.eventbrite.com.au
Accessibility: For live captioning of this event, we recommend using webcaptioner.com in conjunction with Zoom.
If you have any questions email uht@union.unimelb.edu.au or call 83446975
Accessibility is very important at UHT. Please contact us so we can provide you with the right support to participate in this activity.
We acknowledge that we live, work and create on the lands of the Kulin Nation, and pay our respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging. We extend that respect to all First Nations people, and the long and rich histories of storytelling, art and culture on this land. Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land.
![UMSU will be closed today, but we won't be celebrating anything.
Statement from @umsuindigenous:
TW/CW: mentions of Indigenous Death, Stolen Generations, Racism and Australia Day
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"Leading up to January 26, we see the stores start to fill with all sorts of unnecessarily branded Australian merchandise. Thongs, bikinis, plastic flags, cups, BBQ accessories are all things we frantically try to avert our eyes from, while in our local shopping centres.
It’s a cruel reminder that the day is almost here.
Invasion Day marks a pain that will never really leave us, it is a reminder of the slaughters that have been deliberately left out of the pages of history books. It is a reminder to the people that will never know where they came from because their grandparents and ancestors were stolen from the arms of their parents. It is a reminder that the nation that we are now citizens of refuses to acknowledge or repent for the racialised actions of its past and present.
In a nation that insists it is built upon ideals of mateship and diversity, it becomes increasingly clear that those notions are only bestowed upon the ‘good Australian’. The one that believes in the stories of the underdog and plight of the convict. Those that celebrate their ancestors coming to a strange new land in search of wealth and opportunity.
I am not a ‘good Australian’, nor do I strive to be one. In order to fulfil this stereotype, you must turn a blind eye to violence and injustice and hold an unquestionable belief in the goodwill of the government. You are an active participant in ‘fun-loving Aussie racism’..."
Read the full statement on our Facebook page.
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