The Video Of Grace Tame Refusing To Smile At ScoMo Is Now A Museum Exhibit
As it should be.
The moment that Grace Tame refused to smile during a photo opportunity with Prime Minister Scott Morrison has officially been memorialised.
Last month, ACMI — Australia’s national museum of screen culture — made a very important announcement. “We heard there was a suggestion that the footage of Grace Tame belonged in a museum,” ACMI posted on Twitter. “So we did something about it.”
The footage, originally tweeted by SBS Political Reporter Pablo Viñales, captured 2021 Australian of the Year Grace Tame’s wholly unimpressed energy at a photo call with Scott Morrison.
The video kicked off a maelstrom of reactions from op-eds that chastise the 27-year-old for her “childish disobedience” to an outpouring of support for Grace’s no-bullshit approach. It also spurred wider conversations about the burden on women to make people feel comfortable (through emotional displays like smiling) and the many times that Scott Morrison has in fact been the rude one.
We heard there was a suggestion that the footage of Grace Tame belonged in a museum. So we did something about it.
This tweet by @pablovinales is now on display at ACMI. https://t.co/bvZopcjR3l https://t.co/rNMnB0JxaP
— ACMI (@ACMI) January 27, 2022
According to ACMI’s website, the video sits in a section of the museum that presents the “moments, stories and memes capturing the zeitgeist by going viral on the internet”. So, it sounds like it’s in the right place.
The Melbourne museum also features other viral moments, including “Scott No Friends“, a screen recording of a tweet shows Morrison struggling to find a single friend at the G20 conference in Rome, and on a happier note, the infamous video that captured Nathan Apodaca gliding down a American highway while swigging cranberry-raspberry juice and singing along to Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Dreams’. What a moment.
You can visit ACMI in Melbourne from 12-5pm on Monday to Friday and 10-5pm on weekends. General entry is free.