EXHIBITION COLLABORATION WITH UNDERSCORE

Opening night:
Saturday 17th October 5-9 pm
Opening hours:
Sunday 18th October 12-5 pm
Fri 23rd-Sunday 25 October 12-5 pm

Me_Me is an on-going collaborative project between Reegan Jackson and Annie Huang, that focuses on the discursive qualities of internet media as cultural debris. This exhibition is a sculptural installation that materializes trending internet meme sounds into form. Memes circulate through automated systems that priorities recognisability, speed, and shareability. As
sound, they become detached from origin, authorship, and context, operating instead as cultural signals that are endlessly repeated, revoiced, and distorted. Drawing from these short, highly circulated audio fragments involving catchphrases, remixed speech, vocal tics, and
computational sounds, the work treats meme sounds as sonic events shaped by repetition, compression, and platform logic.

Within Me_Me, internet meme sounds are recorded and computationally analysed, where various elements of sound data are then guided and translated into three-dimensional data points and growth. The resulting digital forms are then reproduced in methods of casting, translating fleeting digital audio into slow, materially precious objects. By rendering viral sound into mediums historically associated with endurance and function, the exhibition seeks to play with the tension between endurance and disposability.

The resulting works function as resonant bodies, sculptural forms that hold traces of collective listening. Reflecting on cultural narratives that are being increasingly mediated through short-form, algorithmically amplified sound. The installation proposes meme audio as a contemporary vernacular, one that narrates how digital systems reorganise share memory and community building.

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By fig_._2 (Annie Huang and Reegan Jackson)

ARTIST BIO fig.2
Annie Huang is a research-based artist, working across ceramics and new-media forms. She is interested in the tensions and nuances of contemporary cross-cultural experiences, particularly as they are increasingly mediated by digital and internet media. She has exhibited and presented in institutions including Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Walyalup Fremantle Art Centre, and Seoul National University.

Reegan Jackson is an interdisciplinary artist working in Boorloo (Perth). Reegan’s practice centres on material exploration, reflecting on the contemporary systems that shape our experiences. His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, including th Unhallowed Arts Festival by SymbioticA, International Symposium of Electronic Arts Dubai, and the Australian Ceramics Triennale.


About _____g.s

_____g.s (AKA UNDERSCORE Gallery & Studio, est. 2025) is an artist-run gallery and studio located at Shop 13, 375 William Street, Boorloo (Perth), WA.

The gallery hosts exhibitions and public program events with a focus on experimental, critically engaged, and research-based practices that contribute to broader discourse in the community.

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