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 BaÅŸkan, 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 18.2: 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 RamÃrez, Nadia Demas + roxxy marsden.
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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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Applications are due by Tuesday 18 February at Midnight AEDT (Late or incomplete submissions may not be considered.)
Please note: this opportunity is funded by City of Yarra and City of Melbourne and as such it is open for people based in the state of Victoria as the residency will focus on covering exhibitions and events in Naarm/Melbourne.
un Projects is excited to announce that we are seeking an un Extended Editor-in-residence for 2025 un Extended!
This residency is roughly a 10 month program. Our Editor-in-Residence will commission 9 x reviews, critiques, profiles, or conversations by arts writers to be published on un Extended – un Project’s online publishing initiative. The Editor-in-Residence will also facilitate, present, and help curate 1 x un Talks a public program.
The opportunity is intended to support early career arts writers, editors, artists or publishing enthusiasts to develop content that critically engages with exhibitions and events from the small-to-medium scale arts sector and a focus on important early career and underrepresented artists. This program allows residence to develop their editorial and mentoring skills while producing an editorial driven body of work for un Extended.
‘Thirty years on, Stephen’s collection returns us to the question: why does Burn remain a tragic point of identification for artists and art historians in Australia? And what bearing does this have on his steadily growing international audience?’
Camille Orel writes an extended book review for un Extended: Returns to Burn — a review of Ian Burn: Collected Writings 1966-1993 (ed. Ann Stephen).
This review was edited by one of our un Extended Editors-in-Residence, Ella Howells, and supported by Yarra Arts and City of Melbourne.
‘As I wax and wane in and out of this experience of being an Australian Biennale delegate in Venice surrounded by foreigners, kith and, art world kin, I think about our ability to make meaning in our togetherness and what it means to be held by these raw encounters with artists’ offerings. Indigenous modes of thinking and being in solidarity with each other frames the experiences of Venice.’
Two Australian Venice Biennale delegates, Alice Castello & Is Randell, reflect on the 60th Venice Biennale, what it means to be ‘foreign’, Archie Moore’s history Golden Lion win, and Palestinian resistance and activism.
‘We attempted to coordinate an arriving-together to ACCA but we failed and instead met on the seats inside, gossiping over instant coffee and lemon ginger tea as we waited for Language Ecologies to begin.’
In the lead up to un Projects’ 20 year anniversary, we hosted Language Ecologies, a day of panel discussions, readings, and performances that explored the multiple ways language and writing emerges from, and shapes, artistic practice. Situated in James Nguyen’s exhibition ‘Open Glossary’ at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Language Ecologies fostered discussions on publishing, storytelling, self-determination, togetherness, entanglement, digital networks, and language materiality.
For un Extended, we asked three attendees — Ren Jiang, Wen-Juenn Lee, Madison Pawle — to write a response to Language Ecologies.
un Projects is based on the unceded sovereign land and waters of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation; we pay our respects to their Elders past and present.