Curator Talk: Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer on Memento Hikikomori
Saturday, July 25, 2026
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Presented by Institute of Modern Art
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Ground Floor, Judith Wright Arts Centre 420 Brunswick Street Fortitude Valley Brisbane QLD 4006 Australia
Event Details
Join Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer, curator of Memento Hikikomori, as he guides us through the exhibition and deconstructs the anthropological approach of Canadian artist Jon Rafman, who scrapes the recesses of the internet, mines 4chan greentexts, strips images from video games, and documents fringe online communities. Aloisio-Shearer will contextualise the central works, which include Rafman’s ongoing project Nine Eyes (2008–), his feature-length video work Main Stream Media Network (2025–6), and shorter films, Punctured Sky (2021), Still Life (Betamale) (2013), and Kool-Aid Man in Second Life (2008–11), all of which contend with the technological mediation of memory, the formation of selfhood and identity, and the unconscious of collective online experience.
Event Info
- Date: Saturday, July 25, 2026
- Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Promoter: Institute of Modern Art
- Address: Ground Floor, Judith Wright Arts Centre 420 Brunswick Street Fortitude Valley Brisbane QLD 4006 Australia