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Diego Ramírez

Mexican-born, Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist and writer whose work spans video, installation and curatorial projects; represented by MARS Gallery and exhibiting in NEW26 at ACCA.

Oct 12, 2026

96:11
So, yeah, let's talk about it.
96:14
Yes, thanks so much everyone for being here and listening.
96:18
The main outcome of my commission was this novel called Bureausis.
96:23
I was interested in the idea that bureaucracy has migrated from government to corporations to non-profits to enter grassroots and permeate our everyday life.
96:37
And because I'm in the art world, I'm interested in how people congregate around artworks to create art scenes.
96:45
So thinking about this leakage of administration, I became very interested in how art scenes have become increasingly bureaucratized.
96:56
So I was very inspired by that, but I had the big, deep problem of how to put it in a gallery or how to tell anyone about it.

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speaker_17UNKNOWN
104:16
But yeah, what was your thought in including this specific soundscape?
106:01
So, yeah, let's talk about it.
106:04
Yes, thanks so much everyone for being here and listening.
106:08
The main outcome of my commission was this novel called Bureausis.
106:13
I was interested in the idea that bureaucracy has migrated from government to corporations to nonprofits to enter grassroots and permeate our everyday life.
106:28
And because I'm in the art world, I'm interested in how people congregate around artworks to create art scenes.
106:36
So thinking about this leakage of administration, I became very interested in how art scenes have become increasingly bureaucratized.
106:46
So I was very inspired by that, but I had the big, deep problem of how to put it in a gallery or how to tell anyone about it.

7 MINS LATER

speaker_12UNKNOWN
114:06
But yeah, what was your thought in including this specific soundscape?
SavannahHOST
46:41
Can you tell us about that track?
46:44
Um, it's, uh, I, I found Rolando Bruno by chance.
46:47
Um, and I, I'm a big fan of lo-fi [laughs] fuzzy guitars, and this is a particularly ironically bad example of it.
46:57
[laughs] I just love it so much, and the track goes for, yeah, we were just talking about this solo that goes for a long, long time, and it's all, like, very, uh, stereotypical pentatonic and [laughs] I would say.
SavannahHOST
47:50
So my biggest question is, is what inspired you to use a book as your medium?
47:58
Yes.
47:59
Um, so there's, there's one book in particular that was very important for me, which is called, um, Artist Novel: The New Medium by David Marotta.
48:14
I think that's the actual name, and it speaks about how artists use the medium, the medium of a novel in contemporary art.

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