PLACE-Urbanity
a Psycho-Ethnographic Portrait of Melbourne
Jeffrey Shaw
2001
PLACE-Urbanity DVD is a DVD-ROM version of the interactive
installation (PLACE - URBANITY, a Psycho-Ethnographic Portrait
of Melbourne) commissioned by CINEMEDIA for the Australian Center
for the Moving Image in Melbourne.
Melbourne is a notably multicultural city due to the size and
diversity of its many immigrant communities. The city also has the
reputation as comedy capital of Australia. PLACE-Urbanity
DVD presents fifteen fully panoramic photographs of various urban
locations in Melbourne, identifying the districts of a specific
immigrant and/or ethnic community. When exploring each of these panoramic
scenes the viewer can locate a comedian, hanging upside down, and when
clicked on will tell a joke. Each comedian is a member of the specific ethnic
community represented, and the subject's jokes reflect, with critical
humour, their distinctive relationships to the Australian context.
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