Eliza Abejo
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Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game’ is a project that manifested after Eliza watched Boots Riley’s film, ‘Sorry to Bother You.’ Starring LaKeith Stanfield, the 2018 film is about a black-American telemarketer named Cassius Green who puts on a ‘white voice’ to succeed in his career. Critiquing racist and capitalist ideologies, Cassius prolongs the inequality in his community by selfishly exchanging for a life lived ‘worry-free.’ After watching it, Eliza could not help but wonder what could have happened to Cassius and his relationship with others had made different choices at earlier points of the film.
Combining her love for storytelling and videogames, Eliza aims to address the relationship between power and agency through a visual novel game. Rather than passively experiencing Cassius’ moral dilemmas, Eliza wants her game to confront players with Cassius' moral dilemmas. While players are free to change Cassius' ending, this still begs the question as to whether we do have the power to break out of the ideologies we live under. The game, after all, is very forgiving of where mistakes are made. Life itself is another matter entirely.
If the game is the final result, this is the first iteration: a site-specific installation that looks into how we alter our voices to appeal to others. In essence, we follow a script. Here, Eliza challenges others to take the first step of social change: to see where edits should be made so others learn to accept our true selves.
don't stick to the script. change it.
5:45 duration video projection with sound, PC & desk, water cooler, office stationary, paint, copy paper & pinboards.
5:45 duration video projection with sound, PC & desk, water cooler, office stationary, paint, copy paper & pinboards.



back to the drawing board
Pen, marker, pencil, coloured pencils, copy paper.
reworking the canon
Movie script annotated with sticky notes, pencil, pen and highlighters.
out with the old, in with the new
Copy paper, trash can.
Exhibited Works
Graduation Exhibition
Eliza Abejo
Emily Anderson
Talitha Benson
Chloe Bentley
Olivia Brine
Frances Cohen
Hannah Coleman
Sally Craven
Sienna Crowhurst
Christina Cuthill
Lauren Downton
Ron Edwards
Peter Fitton
Elena Grilli
Bianca Hoffrichter
Alice Hu
Michelle Jacob
Josh Juett
Lucy Keatch
Claire Kennett
Eli Lange
Mary Lawas
Isabel Margot
Sam Matthewman
Bridget McPeake
Sydelle Mullen
Alice Mussared
Renee Pastore
Emma Perry
Caitlin Preece
Rosemary Prider
Izzi Selfe
Miriam Sims
Rosa Slape
Asha Southcombe
Bree Thomson
Ruby Yates
Bachelor of Contemporary Art
Bachelor of Art and Design (Honours)
Contemporary Art
Master of Design (Contemporary Art)
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