GALLERY ONE | LAUREN DUNN
A CYBORG MANIFESTO
FRI 19 AUG 9.00AM - FRI 16 SEP 5.00PM
PREVIEW FRI 19 AUG, 5.00-6.00PM
OPENING EVENT SAT 20 AUG, 4.00-6.00PM
FREE TO ATTEND
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Monday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Tuesday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Wednesday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Thursday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Saturday 10.00am - 3.00pm
Sunday closed
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Platform Arts is wheelchair-accessible via our Gheringhap St entrance. Unlocked, accessible bathrooms are available on both ground and first floors.
For accessibility enquiries, please directly contact us at hello@platformarts.org.au
Please note, Platform Arts is a dry venue.
As part of the Platform LAB Digital Residency, Lauren Dunn is researching and developing their project titled A Cyborg Manifesto, in honour of Donna Haraway’s essay of the same name.
This essay lubricated new ways of thinking and alternative theories for Lauren about our relationship to technology and its impact on feminism, socialism and materialism. The research specifcally aims to interrogate theories of the cyborg in contemporary culture by bridging connections to popular imagery, cultural behaviours and the forces that dictate our desires.
Predominantly working with photography Lauren also uses other materials such as video and sculpture as a means of twisting the codes and conventions of photography. Lauren’s work is concerned with our fast-paced relationship to the many images we encounter in our daily journeys in the virtual and physicalworlds. She believes images have the power to infuence, persuade, seduce and mislead us more than ever due to technological advancements and our growing dependancy on the virtual world.
Lauren works to unpack and decode these images to make sense of our culture and the power structures that shape our desires. The end result is a social commentary and provocations that addresses critical contemporary image politics through the lens of popular culture.
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Lauren Dunn lives and practices on Wurundjeri Country, Naarm (also know as Melbourne). They graduated from the VCA with a BA in Fine Art in 2016 and Honours in 2018. They are the founder of Melbourne-based Collective www.imagecollective.com.au, and a sessional lecturer at Monash school of Art Design & Architecture. Lauren has participated in a number of group and solo exhibitions locally and internationally and their work is held in numerous private and public collections.
