This Hideous Replica - RMIT Gallery opening celebration

RMIT Culture invites you to celebrate the opening of This Hideous Replica at RMIT Gallery, curated by Joel Stern and Sean Dockray.  
  
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.   

This exhibition launch marks the start of an experimental 'Replica School’ – a replica of a school, a school of replication. An expanded program of workshops, performances, talks, screenings and other uncanny encounters taking place at RMIT and various venues in Melbourne. Find the full program and how you can be involved, here.  

Join us for an after-hours celebration together with the curators, artists and RMIT Galleries community. 


Image: Anna Vasof, Moving the Audience 2023 (video still). Image courtesy of the artist.