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Top16
Top16
Janet Lilo
Curated by Louise Tu'u
October 5 - 12, 2007
Gallery Three
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In association with AUT University and the University of Auckland, Top 16 is the latest show from innovative Auckland-based video artist, Janet Lilo, a recent graduate of AUT’s Master of Art and Design programme. Top 16 refers to a popular application amongst users of a personal webpage called bebo, which easily identifies a user’s or a group’s most important and popular friends, family members and fans. Based on the idea of profiling one’s self or identity, Lilo manifests her inspiration from this virtual space by using it as a template for the installation-based works. Top16 is an exploration of these two spaces merged, with the gallery serving as a physical space for viewing, commentary as well as exhibiting current profiles of bebo members. Given the recent media hype regarding the violent death of 17-year old Augustine Borrell and the online surrender of the main suspect that was followed with a hasty closure to the suspect’s bebo website, Top 16 seeks to highlight the overlap between public and private space: censorship of the individual and the community, appropriation of image and text, audience appeal and popularity and the wider context of popular culture and networking.
Louise Tu'u
For more information, please contact:
Louise Tu’u
021 633 814
louise.tuu@clear.net.nz
To see Janet Lilo speaking about her work on TV ONE /TAGATA PASIFICA program, click here