un Magazine 12.1: The Unbearable Hotness of Decolonisation

You're invited to the launch party of un Magazine 12.1: The Unbearable Hotness of Decolonisation. Co-edited by Maddee Clark & Neika Lehman with sub-editor Amala Groom, un Magazine 12.1 begins with the following question: has decolonisation in the art world simply become another thematic?

When: Thursday 10th May
Time: 6pm, sharp!
Where: Footscray Community Arts Centre, 45 Moreland Street, Footscray 3011

We've got an amazing evening lined up to welcome this very exciting edition of un Magazine into the world! Words from un Editorial Committee members Lisa Radford & Amelia Winata, co-editors Maddee Clark & Neika Lehman + performances from Léuli Eshragi & Kate ten Buuren + a special DJ set from Paul Gorrie!

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"Decolonise your knowledge, decolonise your desire, decolonise your body, decolonise your fashion, decolonise your spice rack, decolonise your gut, decolonise your reading list, decolonise your seating arrangement, decolonise your watch, decolonise your pedagogy, decolonise your arts practice, decolonise your IG account, decolonise your meme. It starts with colonised peoples talking about their empowerment and, necessarily, it’s a wide open road with Indigenous and non-Indigenous participation. But with these white artworld people in particular … I am wondering, is it decolonising or re-colonising? ..."
--- from Editorial, un Magazine 12.1

Featuring writing & art by: Rene Kulitja + Linda Rive with John Dallwitz + Susan Lowish, Kate Rendell, Tristen Harwood + Lauren Burrow, Genevieve Grieves, Suzanne Kite, Ainslee Meredith, Tawhanga Nopera, Ellen O'Brien, Rebecca McCauley, Natasha Matila-Smith, Kenzee Patterson, Susie Anderson, Julie Gough, Georgina Watson, Beth Sometimes + Lorrayne Gorey, Fran Edmonds + Lily Graham + Jessica Bennett, Dean Cross, Katie West, Megan Cope, Steven Rhall & Timmah Ball.

Cover image:
Julie Gough
The Lost World (part 2) (video still) 2013
HDMI video, H264, 16:9, 1:15:32 hr:min:sec, colour,
sound. Edited by Jemma Rea

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un Projects is pleased to welcome Daniel Browning to the team, as sub-editor for un Magazine 12.2, working alongside our Co-Editors Maddee Clark & Neika Lehman.

Daniel Browning is a highly respected journalist and radio broadcaster from the Bundjalung and Kullilli peoples of far northern New South Wales and south-western Queensland. A trained painter, he is a visual arts graduate of the Queensland University of Technology. From 2009 he was guest co-editor of Artlink Indigenous, a specialist issue of the Australian contemporary art journal. He is widely published as a freelance arts writer specialising in contemporary Indigenous Australian art. Since 2005 he has produced and presented Awaye!, the Indigenous art and culture program on ABC Radio National. He has produced sound artworks from three UNESCO World Heritage sites, exhibited during the 2015 Mildura Palimpsest Biennale and in extremis at Arts House, Melbourne in 2017. As a documentary maker he has received a bronze medal at the New York Festival for Cast Among Strangers, a study of the human zoo phenomenon. His documentary Fernando’s ghost about the Aboriginal rights activist Anthony Martin Fernando was highly commended in the John Newfong Media Prize in 2008 and received an honourable mention at imagineNATIVE, the international festival of Indigenous film and media arts in Canada. Currently, he produces Word Up, a podcast which shares Australia’s diverse Indigenous languages one word at a time. As curator of Urban Theatre Projects’ Blak Box, he is developing a program of storytelling, oral history and music which imagines the past, present and future of the Barangaroo precinct. Situated on the western foreshore of Sydney Harbour Blak Box will offer audiences a vantage point for a wider exploration of the First People’s relationship with their waters through sound.

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Helen Maudsley - STUDIO interview preview from un Projects on Vimeo.

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STUDIO

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un Projects is pleased to partner with Tamsen Hopkinson to present STUDIO, an artist video-interview series.

Speaking with artists about their process and practice, STUDIO aims to be reflective and responsive to current conversations within contemporary art and more broadly. With a focus on Australian artists STUDIO makes accessible conversations that happen in the studio; creating an archive that links generations, highlights crossovers and examines different disciplines.

For the first in the series, we speak to Helen Maudsley, a Melbourne painter who often refers to her paintings as visual essays. Maudsley’s personal visual language examines ideas of analogy, association and ambiguity, based on her reflections on the world around us. In this interview, Maudsley discusses colour and composition as well as her experience of making art and how she feels her practice has changed over time.

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STUDIO is created by Tamsen Hopkinson, a New Zealand artist based in Narrm, Melbourne, and published by un Projects as part of un Extended.

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