Friday 12 September, 10AM-11:30AM
Alcoves
Chronicling Cultural Trash
Writers willing to roll up their sleeves and get dirty will find endless inspiration in the cultural trash heap.
Allow writer Tara Kenny to demonstrate how to mine and critically engage with “low brow” culture, such as reality TV, AI slop, TikTok trends, tabloid drama, YouTube conspiracies and internet detritus. Craft thoughtful, rigorous cultural analysis and criticism that illuminates what this often overlooked material reveals about our cultural moment.
For this workshop, please bring along a laptop or personal device, if you have one available.
Pay-What-You-wish
Kathleen Syme Library and Community Centre, Mulitpurpose Room 1
251 Faraday Street, Carlton VIC 3053
Featuring...
Tara Kenny
Tara Kenny is a freelance arts and culture writer and critic based in Naarm/Melbourne. She’s the television critic for The Monthly and has also written for The Guardian, Interview, i-D, Dazed, V, Daily Dot, Dirt, Liminal, The Saturday Paper, The Age/The Sydney Morning Herald, Frankie, The Paris End, Overland and numerous others. High brow analysis […]
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