About
Arguing that although online and IRL identities can be separate, often one's “truth” is initially presented online. As part of Midsumma Festival 2021, Trocadero presents On Screen, In the Flesh, curated by Zara Sully. A virtual and physical exhibition, On Screen, In the Flesh interrogates the digital queer experience. Highlighting the work of several Narrm based emerging artists, the exhibition will shed a new light on the COVID-19 experience and how intimacy can be achieved through various digital experiences. In an era of digitisation and social media, many queers of today discovered and announced their queer identities on the internet. Some played and developed themselves online whilst unable to in their non-digital lives. On Screen, In the Flesh uncovers these experiences, of the queers of today who once upon a time, uncovered their queer identities online. Artists include Alex Cuffe, Emma Berry & Liv Moriarty, Nunzio Madden, Evan Nilsson, Brooke Van Der Linden & Lou Ellen, Phil Soliman, Arthur Nyakuengama, and Jamie Harrop. The exhibition also features a personal essay by Amie Green.
This virtual portion of the exhibition questions, what is lost through digital representations, and perhaps, what is gained?
Arguing that although online and IRL identities can be separate, often one's “truth” is initially presented online. As part of Midsumma Festival 2021, Trocadero presents On Screen, In the Flesh, curated by Zara Sully. A virtual and physical exhibition, On Screen, In the Flesh interrogates the digital queer experience. Highlighting the work of several Narrm based emerging artists, the exhibition will shed a new light on the COVID-19 experience and how intimacy can be achieved through various digital experiences. In an era of digitisation and social media, many queers of today discovered and announced their queer identities on the internet. Some played and developed themselves online whilst unable to in their non-digital lives. On Screen, In the Flesh uncovers these experiences, of the queers of today who once upon a time, uncovered their queer identities online. Artists include Alex Cuffe, Emma Berry & Liv Moriarty, Nunzio Madden, Evan Nilsson, Brooke Van Der Linden & Lou Ellen, Phil Soliman, Arthur Nyakuengama, and Jamie Harrop. The exhibition also features a personal essay by Amie Green.
This virtual portion of the exhibition questions, what is lost through digital representations, and perhaps, what is gained?
Front image: Created by Jamie Harrop aka TrashyClub
Trocadero Art Space is supported by the city of Maribyrnong
Trocadero Art Space, the artists and curator acknowledge that Trocadero is located on the stolen lands of the Boon Wurrung and Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We offer our respect to the Elders of these traditional lands and, through them, to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Sovereignty was never ceded. Always was always will be Aboriginal land. Pay the rent at https://paytherent.net.au/