2016. Three-channel video installation.

Homo Oeconomicus (Foucault 1984 Madonna 1985) is a small, dark room in which projected videos of flashing disco lights are intercut with projections of two found texts: a passage from Didier Eribon’s respected biography, Michel Foucault, that relates how relentlessly the philosopher and historian Michel Foucault worked to finish his books when he knew he was succumbing to AIDS; and a description of pop superstar Madonna’s routine prior to going on stage, taken from her brother Christopher Ciccone’s tell-all biography, Life with my Sister Madonna. The texts are set against a looped sample of a dance beat with tambourines and bongos, taken from Madonna’s 1989 hit, “Express Yourself”.

This video documents the work’s installation at the Victorian College of the Arts 2016 Masters Exhibition.