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Steven Rhall (Taungurung) - Better Call Rhall' artist services

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Steven Rhall (Taungurung) - Better Call Rhall' artist services, 2024, digital video, sound, 1 min 39 sec x x mm.

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About the Artist Rhall’s art practice finds expression in institutional critique, interrogating modes of representation, classification and hierarchy within the art world and otherwise. His projects often explore the exchange of economic and cultural capital in the matrix of relations and intersections of First Nation art production, presentation and encounter. As a Taungurung person, this positionality further informs his output, including various forms and interventions, including installation, performance, process-led methods, curatorial projects, sculpture and art within the public realm. About the Artwork Better Call Rhall' artist services continues my ongoing exploration of art by First Nations people in relation to cultural and economic capital. This body of work reflects my varied experiences as an artist navigating commonly accepted pathways to building an art career, a journey that has led me to a growing cynicism toward the art market and its entanglement with capitalism and consumerism. These dominant forces shape many of our aspirations and behaviors, influencing the concepts of an 'art career' and the notion of the 'artist' itself. I am particularly interested in how First Nations art practices are impacted by the art market and public institutions, which, while seemingly celebrating the cultural significance of our work, often approach it in a quantitative manner. In my view, this can sometimes reduce the artists and their work to mere commodities.