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Ava Lacoon

Ava Lacoon (she/they) (b. 2001-Kaurna Land) is a queer, disabled, Anglo-Asian writer and curator living as an uninvited settler on sovereign Gadigal Land. Their text based, curatorial and photographic practice is actively shaped by the imaginative and expansive methodologies generated by Anti-colonial, Queer and Crip studies. She is a forever emerging writer and curator in the final year of her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Art Theory). This year Ava was a resident in the National Gallery's Young Writers Digital Residency program. She is currently a Guest Editor of Artlink's upcoming 44:3 Warltati / Summer (December 2024-March 2025). Ava aspires to continue facilitating spaces (whether material or immaterial) that facilitate care and connection. She wants to chase the imbued horizon of potentiality.
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gURLs NVR die on the Internet

2024

 "gURLs NVR die on the Internet" is an experimental confessional-part-theoretical essay that explores and expands on the idea of taking on 'girl online' identities. The piece glitches Anonymous' infamous rule 30 of the internet, "there are no girls on the internet ", to offer an alternative to online essentialism, linear connections and the idea of death being solely linked to the corporeal body. The piece introduces my conceptualisation a gURL (girl uniform resource locator) online; a user that collects and interacts to de-establish non-linear kinship and 'alive-ness'. The project is a self-confessional, non-functional piece of code, a call for help, a forum post, a blog, a chick lit and a love letter. The piece is currently formatted as a double-page spread, intended to be both in zine and digital format, so this gURL propaganda can be mass-shared to be continuously interacted and touched (by hands, or cursor). I plan for my conceptualisation of gURL to expand and mutate as a continuous offering to queer theory and futurity. Most importantly thank you Mark Aguhar and @CALLOUTQUEEN.
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