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  • WE DO NOT YET KNOW WHAT ‘TOTO – AFRICA (PLAYING IN AN EMPTY MALL)’ CAN DO by Mateo Vega
  • WE DO NOT YET KNOW WHAT ‘TOTO – AFRICA (PLAYING IN AN EMPTY MALL)’ CAN DO by Mateo Vega
  • WE DO NOT YET KNOW WHAT ‘TOTO – AFRICA (PLAYING IN AN EMPTY MALL)’ CAN DO by Mateo Vega
  • WE DO NOT YET KNOW WHAT ‘TOTO – AFRICA (PLAYING IN AN EMPTY MALL)’ CAN DO by Mateo Vega
  • WE DO NOT YET KNOW WHAT ‘TOTO – AFRICA (PLAYING IN AN EMPTY MALL)’ CAN DO by Mateo Vega
  • WE DO NOT YET KNOW WHAT ‘TOTO – AFRICA (PLAYING IN AN EMPTY MALL)’ CAN DO by Mateo Vega

WE DO NOT YET KNOW WHAT ‘TOTO – AFRICA (PLAYING IN AN EMPTY MALL)’ CAN DO by Mateo Vega

190 x 280mm, 32 pages, two colour risograph printing, saddle stitched, 2023

We Do Not Yet Know What ‘Toto – Africa (playing in an empty mall)’ Can Do is a personal and political myth, a conversational essay that explores the internet phenomenon of musical empty mall memes on YouTube, in which pop songs are digitally processed to sound as-if played in an empty mall. Mateo Vega reads these videos as a sonic mourning and questioning of Western consumerism’s failed promises, drawing from their personal experience as well as theoretical sources.

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