Acca Podcast

This event included a screening of works by Melbourne-based Mexican artist Diego Ramirez followed by a conversation between Ramirez and Anabelle Lacroix, ACCA’s Curator of Public Programs at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) at Federation Square, Melbourne. The screening included My superstar (2015), aXolotl’s Happiness (2014) and Postcard eXotica (2016). This event is presented in partnership the Australian Centre for the Moving Image as part of their ART+FILM program, as a parallel program to ACCA’s exhibition Dwelling Poetically: Mexico, a case study. ABOUT DIEGO RAMIREZ: Diego Ramirez is a Mexican-born, Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist and writer, working primarily with video and pictures to develop installations for gallery contexts. His research based practise explores the legacies of colonialism in visual culture; the rhetoric of the image and concept of terror as a response to the ‘other’. Ramirez Often seeks to reconfigure vernacular archives and popular images that embod