Soft Power

Melody Paloma

Teeny tiny, itty bitty, super duper, big interrogates the violence of settler colonial aesthetics. The poem circulates around the concept of colonial kitsch and its relationship to mythmaking, monument and extraction.

Roslyn Orlando

Evasion Score is a downloadable graphic score and video demonstration that proposes ways of using the voice to evade detection from domestic smart speakers. Various vocal techniques are used to prevent speakers from 'listening' to and understanding speech.

Ryan Andrew Lee

Wonnarua is a contemplative moving image installation work that aims to provoke discussion around themes of Indigenous ways of living in juxtaposition with western settler-state system's unsustainable, damaging ways of using stolen lands.

Lou Garcia-Dolnik

Entertaining the possibility that Bitcoin mining’s colonial-capitalist apparatus may too set its claws in The Philippines, Ledger wrestles with the impossibility of imagining a homeland always-already imminently ruined by technocapitalism.

Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer

Enter a strange world and find a way to charm the three manifestations of online masculinity that will vie for your affections! Will you be able to discover a way to live in this world you have found yourself in? Experience corporeal bliss in one of five different endings or uncover the secret path to transcendence.

Janet Bi Li Chan

AI Redacted is an experiment in erasure poetry that continues a tradition of creating ‘found’ poetry through erasing a large portion of an existing text - in this case, a 1986 technical report from New York University titled The Limits of Artificial Intelligence by Jacob T Schwartz.

Talia Smith

This work explores the disconnection between Aotearoa, the artist’s place of birth and ancestral homelands, and Sydney, where she currently resides – and the familial ties that keep her precariously grounded.