2006

Spacement Gallery, Melbourne.

Within the global media rhetoric about being ‘mobile’ (technological, social, economic and cultural), we are finding that there is a residual stillness resonating around place. Often users customised their mobile phone to locate and ground it in the personal. Hjorth sees these forms of personalisation as intimate publics. This personalisation is about making the mobile still. Hjorth explored this idea in Seoul at a SSamzie space art residency (please see attached catalogue, Snapshots of almost contacts) and then again in Snapshots: Portrait of the mobile (Spacement gallery, Melbourne).

Download the catalogue here.