Cloud Copy places the viewer inside an alternative universe in physical and virtual space. It ushers us in...
‘Nothing here is true
Truth stopped in 2001
Respect stopped in 2016
2020 never really existed
It’s a conspiracy
We’ve reserved you a space in your own private echo chamber
Scream in any direction
Somebody is bound to react
You’re part of something greater now
Pulsing in the algorithm
Let your thoughts fragment into a galaxy
Of subreddits and subtweets and subcultures
Welcome to sub-cultism
Pick a faction
Don’t worry you can change stream at any time
Simply navigate to a new tab
Go deep
Deeper
This void is cavernous
Begging to be filled.’
Cloud Copy by Xanthe Dobbie places the viewer inside an alternative universe inside a VR experience headset. Dobbie has brought together snatches of internet content, exaggerating the online world many of us experience daily, with corporate logos, pornography, every seduction that makes are click further into this boundless space.
Xanthe Dobbie is an Australian artist living and working on the unceded lands of Naarm, Melbourne. Dobbie works across on and offline modes of making. Their works are shrines to a post-truth era, drawing on humour, pop, sex, queer theory, history, and iconography. They have exhibited extensively with recent works, including experimental live-streamed theatre, interactive media, AR, VR, performance, and installation. In 2021, Xanthe developed new commissions for the Sydney Opera House, Munch Museum, Bundoora Homestead, and UQ Art Museum. In 2022, they worked on major projects for presentation at the RISING Festival, The Museum of Contemporary Art, ACMI, and Grafton Regional Gallery. Dobbie is undertaking a PhD focusing on digital and interactive art at RMIT University.
Cloud Copy was first commissioned for an exhibition at University of Queensland Art Museum.
A Lismore Regional Gallery exhibition. Lismore Regional Gallery is a creative initiative of Lismore City Council supported by the New South Wales Government through Create NSW and assisted by the Australian Government through Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and the Friends of the Gallery.
