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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un Projects What’s on:
Join US-based cultural theorist Catherine Liu, Professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class, for a lecture on the rise of trauma culture and its historical transition from private suffering into public life. Liu examines how our culture morphed into one that privileges confession as a key mode of communication, investigating the role of digital media, art and the artist in this shift.
The lecture will be accompanied by a short reading by art historian and critic Tara Heffernan, guest editor of incoming un Magazine 18.1 The Badaud, and conclude in a discussion moderated by Stephanie Berlangieri, Curator – Research, Monash University Museum of Art.
This event is presented by Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA and un Projects. Catherine Liu’s visit to Australia is supported by Griffith University Art Museum and Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.
Image: Catherine Liu. Photo: Alexander Raborn
Accessibility: Collingwood Yards is wheelchair accessible. Please contact [email protected] for any other access questions or requirements. BOOKED OUT
un Extended – un Projects online platform for arts writing, podcasts, and events.
Sydney, 2024. Ian Burn at his desk in Finsbury Park flat, London, 1966.
Returns to Burn: A review of Ian Burn: COLLECTED WRITINGS 1966-1993 by Camille Orel
‘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.
Everybody Everywhere All at Once: reflecting on the 60th Venice Biennale
by Alice Castello & Is Randell
‘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.
Magnetic Topographies: a conversation with Therese Keogh, Kenzee Patterson & Clare Britton
‘For Magnetic Topographies, a social practice becomes a place-based practice becomes a compost made up of new friendships and knowledge. A practice that is playfully unassuming yet deeply anti-institutional: meet your friends, go for a walk, see what happens.’
For her first un Extended editor-in-residence piece, Sofia Sid Akhmed, interviews Magnetic Topographies (Therese Keogh, Kenzee Patterson & Clare Britton).
Breathing and Chaos by Margarita Kontev
‘The paintings turn from liquid to gas, and back again. Akin to von Bingen’s ‘Voice of the Living Light’, combating the lume isn’t in Clara’s best interest. In fact, she holds it close to her chest.’
Margarita Kontev writes a review for un Extended: Breathing and Chaos an exhibition by Clara Joyce at Cache, Melbourne.
This is the first piece commissioned and edited by one of our 2024 un Extended Editors-in-Residents, Ella Howells
Fire Me, Paul – Diego Ramírez
‘Two weeks had suddenly passed and I was also late for the extension, Paul. I was busy attending a psychic expo with my partner, where I bought Uruguayan amethyst, Paul. Time is running out once again, so let me tell you about Grupo Ascencio, located in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico, Paul.’
For his last contribution, outgoing un Editor-in-Residence Diego Ramírez tests the editors, extends deadlines and reflects on his recent time visiting and working in artist-run spaces in
Guadalajara, Mexico.
Archival / Activism – Timmah Ball
‘Purple is splashed across the entrance of PICA and the windows in the West End Gallery are coated with a purple glaze which permeates the space. This imbues the building with the energy of protest that movingly reflects the current gathering of bodies that take to the streets filling urban environments with colour: this time, watermelon.’
Timmah Ball reflects on Roberta Joy Rich’s recent exhibition The Purple Shall Govern showing last year at PICA.
Inter-Review with the artists in their office-cum-studio-cum-gallery – Carmen-Sibha Keiso
‘It is not common to be surprised by the artistic endeavours of a peer, as you can’t avoid looking into things too intimately or ask questions too domestically; where most decisions are accepted as mere tokens or trials in experimentation. Looking at an object, totally reliant on the natural progressions of assemblage and my prefixed trust of the artist’s personal taste; I have no choice but to passively accept their motives.’
Outgoing un Extended Editor-in-Residence Carmen-Sibha Keiso inter-reviews Hana Earles and Anabel Robinson at their studio ‘Dream Gallery’ in Pakenham.
Four Decades, Five Hundred Prints – Giles Fielke
‘Coupled with his practical, “non-objective” philosophy of engaging commonly available “everyday” materials like newspaper; cardboard; hessian; industrial-grade timbers; Perspex; and housepaint; the set of works on display — many for the first time — at the Geelong Gallery, are further constrained by the typical and recognisable artistic vocabulary he set out consistently across his career. In this way Nixon might be understood an antipodean Ellsworth Kelly, a regional Piet Mondrian.’
Giles Fielke delves into a showing of work by the late John Nixon at Geelong Gallery, guided by seven watchwords: ‘Matrix’, ‘Potato’, ‘Orange’, ‘Waste Not Want Not’, ‘Frottage’, ‘Montage’, ‘The Cross’.
Alex Hobba – Cockfighter’s Ghost – Tom Campbell
‘Cockfighter’s Ghost is an ambitious presentation, a successful emulation of the documentary form, and the artist injects her trademark sense of humour into her worldbuilding. ‘
Tom Campbell reviews Alex Hobba’s Cockfighter’s Ghost, which showed at BLINDSIDE earlier this year.
This text was commissioned through the Emerging Writers’ Program – an annual collaborative projects from KINGS and un Projects, that supports critical arts wrting, fiction, poetry, experimental, cross-genre and digital text forms.
Language Ecologies – Ren Jiang, Wen-Juenn Lee, Madison Pawle
‘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.
Emily Cardboard: Tendencies in Female Behavior – Joanna Pope
‘Keiso described their long walks together as exercises in autistic-girly-psychogeography. As a female autist, I find their solemn, eventless traipsing through the city in strange sexy-ugly garb almost joyous, a perfect study in autistic girl companionship and all its drama-free intensity.’
Joanna Pope visits Emily Cardboard; Tendencies in Female Behavior, a recent exhibition at Hyacinth by Carmen-Sibha Keiso and Emily Hanson, featuring their short film of the same name. Commissioned by Carmen-Sibha Keiso, un Extended Editor-in-Residence.
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