You Are Boring!

You Are Boring!

2015 · 14 min

YOU ARE BORING! discusses the troublesome nature of “looking” and “being looked at” in larger contexts including labour within the new economy, performer/spectator relations, participatory culture, contemporary art display and queer representational politics.

Directed by Vika Kirchenbauer · Written by Vika Kirchenbauer

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