Saturday, 15 November 2008

Australia Idle

Australian media covers the Australian Idle (like X factor) contest very seriously. In the meantime Australia has followed George Bush to war, it still locks up refugees in the desert, and Aboriginal people are treated as second class citizens. Who cares?

I made this over a year ago.  i would like to show it as part of an installation with the film looped at separate times on four walls. i would hope to make the space uncomfortable and confronting for the viewer. The noise created would be intended to shake the MTV culture that seems create a nice false living space in which one does not need to consider car bombs, health care, sanitary housing or weapons of mass destruction. 

Alternatively i might try and project this onto the Sydney opera house in a pirate mission from a boat. after all its the place where they hold the Australian Idol final ;)


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