un Anthology 2014-2024
Our 20th unniversary publication is here! 📦
Following on from our 2014 anthology, this un Anthology 2014-2014 (another) decade of art and ideas, asked guest editors from the past 10 years to chose a piece to re-publish from their volume and write a new introduction for it.
Featuring works by Rosie Isaac, Pip Wallis Anatol Pitt, Anastasia Klose, Genevieve Grieves, Andrew Norman Wilson, Sam Peterson, Gabriel Curtin & Ender Başkan, Melissa Ratliff, and Timmah Ball. New introductions from Shelley McSpedden & Meredith Turnbull, David Capra, Neika Lehman & Arlie Alizzi, Hugh Childers & Bobuq Sayed, Elena Gomez & Rosie Isaac, Snack Syndicate (Andrew Brooks & Astrid Lorange), Hilary Thurlow & D Harding, and Bahar Sayed & Gemma Weston. Plus essays from Lily Hibberd and Audrey Jo Pfister.
un Magazine 18.3 Sabaar and Other Counter Archives ed. Nadia Refaei and 18.4 Good Grief ed. Olivia Koh
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18.3: Sabaar and Other Counter Archives guest edited by Nadia Rafaei. Inside you’ll find pieces on Palestinian Resistance; wild-plant foraging, Ukrainian museum artefacts; roving sound art; protest and activism and the Treaty of Waitangi; and more.
Contributors:
Caine Chennatt
Jess Clifford
Grace Gamage
Dean Greeno
Hasib Hourani & Jeanine Hourani
Juliette Berkeley & Ronen Jafari
Sara Jajou
Kiera Brew Kurec
Brooke Pou
Monica Rani Rudhar
18.4: Good Grief guest edited by Olivia Koh.
Inside you’ll find pieces on NGV’s coin pond, sustainability and arts organisations; efforts to Return Lee Point to Larrakia people; living Irish language, Coburg’s merri merri; Ethopian poetry and silence; and homages to Destiny Deacon; Feliz Gonzalez-Torres; and friends.
Contributors:
Benjamin Bannan
Dr. Peta Clancy
Jemi Gale & Lily Golightly
Tristen Harwood & Tamsen Hopkinson
Laniyuk
Mihret Kebede
Ellen van Neerven
Lana Nguyen
Zainab Hikmet & Anna Emina El Samad
Jacqui Shelton
un Magazine 18.2 – After-care
un Magazine 18.2: After-care, guest edited by Joel Sherwood Spring
Contributors: Joel Sherwood Spring, SJ Norman, Enoch Mailangi, Ragnar Thomas, Georgia Hayward, Hideko G. Ono, Suvani Suri, Diego Ramírez, Nadia Demas + roxxy marsden.
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un Magazine 18.1 – Badaud
un Magazine 18.1: Badaud, guest edited by Tara Heffernan
Contributors: Tara Heffernan, Scott Robinson, Daniel McKewen, Elyssia Bugg, Georgia Puiatti, Yannick Blattner, Vincent Lê, Aimee Dodds, Sam Beard, Eugene Hawkins, Francis Russell, Alexandra Peters & Carmen-Sibha Keiso.
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Statement from un Projects:
un Projects joins our community and peers in the arts sector and stands in solidarity with Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino and demand their immediate reinstatement as the artistic team representing Australia at the Venice Biennale 2026. We believe this decision undermines the integrity of arms-length, peer-assessed decision-making, and compromises freedom of artistic expression for the arts in Australia.
As a platform for independent, critical discussions about Australian artistic practice, un Projects champions experimentation, diversity, transparency, artistic risk-taking and ambition.
un Projects has published writing on Khaled Sabsabi numerous times as an internationally renowned artist whose socially-engaged work has long created a space for reflection and contemplation on power, nationhood, identity, and beauty.
As published on un Extended in 2018, Waqt Al-tagheer / Time Of Change by Adelè Sliuzas (SA);
‘Khaled Sabsabi’s The Speed of Light (2016) reveals the complexity that can be found in a seemingly unexceptional view of the sky from a studio in Sydney. The 11 video screens form a horizonless cosmos within which time and light become uncertain and unfixed. The soundscape is rhythmic, almost stuttering; at the centre of the work is a sense of stillness, despite the fact that this work is about the act of speeding up. Sabsabi’s aim is to reconceive light beyond its physical, energetic properties and expose its pure & divine qualities. He arrives at this by accelerating 218 hours of video surveillance into a one second image, his version of the speed of light. Sabsabi’s treatment of light is religious as much as it is technological, referring to the Sufi Muslim belief of true and divine light, or Nur. Though the divine qualities of the work are uncertain, its interrogation of linear time is emphatically poetic.’
We ourselves are recipients of Creative Australia funding, as are many of the writers and artists within our community. We advocate for the transparency and integrity of the independent review process, and for Creative Australia to remain committed to supporting outstanding and diverse Australian art.
We encourage you to read Khaled Sabsabi’s statement, and the letter from the five shortlisted Venice Biennale artists and curators and join over 3000+ people signing Memo open letter.
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Life is Crazy: Catching up with Edward Dean by Ella Howells
Ella Howells wraps up her time as an un Extended Editor-In-Residence 2024, conducts an intercontinental interview with artist-at-large Edward Dean:
Dean: ‘In Australia there’s the orthodoxy of going big or going home. You have to make a spectacle and it’s not questioned as to why it is that way, and in Germany it feels like there’s the orthodoxy of making a little grey square, hardly producing anything and that’s not ever questioned. I would obviously opt towards more bravado, I think that’s cool.’
Howells: ‘An Icarus moment, or something.’
Read online here.
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