The World is a Text with Several Meanings

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Olivia Barrett, The World is a Text with Several Meanings, digital collage, 2010

The world is swamped with images.

Repositioning images is just as crucial as their creation in the production of meaning.

The World is a Text with Several Meanings presents a continuous program of videos that come from both open and solicited sources.

The frame of video produces an experience of equivalence. Regardless of the content, all video exists within a culture of watching images move, so recordings of music videos, sports highlights, blockbuster movies, home videos, academic lectures, documentaries, sex tapes, soap operas, and video art inhabit a shared liminal space.

Responding to the pivotal question within The Matrix, philosopher Slavoj Žižek rejects both the red and blue pill, wanting instead a third pill, one that offers the ‘reality of illusion itself.’ This exhibition is a magnification of the material encountered during the endless search for ‘interesting’ content, and an attempt to address what the third pill may consist of.

Supporters: City of Yarra, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces

Artist/s:

Various international and Australian artists

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