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$ACMI & Gertrude present ART+FILM: Fiona Macdonald, Museum Emotions (2003). Film Screening Thursday 25 September 2025, 6:30pm Cinema 2, Level 2 ACMI, Fed Square Format: Digital Language: English Runtime: 100 link to booking in bio Someone might be missing. Someone might be dead. And someone has it on tape. What happens when you take the language and tropes of soap opera and apply them to a contemporary art world? Museum Emotions: A Conceptual Soap Opera in 9 Episodes (2003) is a video work set at the turn of the millennium within the institutional spaces, studios and bars of the contemporary art scene. Unfolding across nine loosely connected but stylistically different ‘episodes’, it follows a constellation of characters through the banalities of ambition, desire and cultural capital. Themes of reproduction, loss and cultural memory play out against the backdrop of increasingly absurd and poignant scenarios, referencing and distorting theoretical and pop cultural touchstones. Museum Emotions animates the performative economies of the art world. Artists, critics and curators are performed by a cast of artists, critics and curators, their images refracted through the entanglements of generational angst, aesthetic fatigue and the residue of theory in a post-critical era. Where does the truth lie – in the artwork, the artist or the performance of both?$

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