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Description: Title: Nest (from the 'Oasis' body of work)nYear: 2012nFormat: Video, lightboxesnCollaborators: Yumi Umiumare (performer), Dan West (sound), Paul Philipson and Alice Glenn (camera), Kat Chan (costume)nSupporters: Australia Council for the ArtsnnPart bedroom, part cave, Oasis explored the Japanese phenomenon of hikikomori or 'shut-in syndrome'. After experiencing a social trauma, hikikomori confine themselves to their bedrooms for days, months and in extreme cases, years on end, existing on a die
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