CURRENT

Thanks for a great opening night of ‘Me_Me’ by Annie Huang and Reegan Jackson for @_____.g.s off-site program at CURRENT.

Opening hours:
Sunday 18th Oct 12-5 pm
Friday 23 Oct, 10am – 4pm
Saturday 24 Oct, 10am – 5pm
Sunday 25 Oct, 11am – 3pm

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.
@reegan_jackson
@annie____huang