Tony Albert 'Wreck Systems of Oppression' Badge
Tony Albert 'Wreck Systems of Oppression' Badge
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This limited edition badge is based on Tony Albert's work, You Wreck Me (2020).
Playing on Australia’s self-deprecating humour (known as ‘taking the piss’), You Wreck Me not only offers an hilarious reimagining of Miley Cyrus’s infamous video clip Wrecking Ball, but a sharp and timely questioning of our national history. Unlike the original version, which depicts a naked Cyrus straddling a wrecking ball, Albert’s interpretation takes on a more political tone, with the artist sitting atop a suspended exercise ball, ploughing down monuments of Captain Cook. Painted up for ceremony, Albert’s impersonation here recalls the reductive representations that are often imposed on First People.
Watch You Wreck Me here.