Watch our interview with artist Steven Rhall about the work 'ABORIGINAL LAND (SSID)', commissioned by ACCA for 'Who's Afraid of Public Space?', showing until 20 March 2022
'ABORIGINAL LAND: SSID' 2021 by interdisciplinary Taungurung artist Steven Rhall is an ingenious new public artwork conceived for presentation using wireless networks of ACCA and those across the city and beyond. Interfacing with the public through the personal space of mobile phones and other networked devices, Rhall’s project is simple in form yet weighty in meaning and significance. Underpinning the work is the gesture of renaming wireless network identifications (or SSIDs) to ‘ABORIGINAL LAND’, both on the artist’s own device/s and those of the institution, as well as via a participating public, viewable to anyone within a reachable distance to these networks.
Read more about ACCA and 'Who's Afraid of Public Space?' on our website at acca.melbourne
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