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:
un Projects presents ‘Collection (spell)’ co-curated by un Magazine guest editors Nadia Refaei and Olivia Koh (recess) ahead of their incoming issues 18.3 Sabaar and Other Counter Archives and 18.4 good grief.
An evening of short film screenings presented concurrently at both the Richmond Theatrette, Naarm/Melbourne, and Soho Arts, nipaluna/Hobart on Friday 18 October from 6pm.
What do we make with what remains? This series of artist films, ‘Collection (spell)’ counter traditional notions of loss and of the archive. A selection of moving image works from various artists, including some incoming un Magazine contributors, investigate the political, economic and cultural dimensions of how loss is apprehended and history is named.
This program is an invitation to reimagine and reshape given attributes to individual and collective loss (as something irrecoverable, permanent and fixed). Against hegemonic accounts of history, these artist films all differentially ask: who decides what is lost, what is collected and constitutes history, memory and story? ‘Collection (spell)’ demonstrates a myriad of ways that people remember their own histories, language, grief and culture to create resistant, present, living and alternative archival forms. The screening asks us to gather and consider how we can be active participants in the shaping of our own stories and refute dominant narratives; through acts of sharing and forming connections.
Film List:
Noor Al-Asswad, PS/QA, Under the Lemon Tree (2020)
Takani Clark, (TAS) AU, Elder of Shells (2019)
Rosalind Nashashibi, PS/UK, Electrical Gaza (2015)
Jacqui Shelton, IE/(VIC) AU, Bím Caillte ( 2023)
More works tbc
Image: Jacqui Shelton, Bím Caillte (mistranslated: I am usually, habitually, lost), 2023, digital video still.
All ticket proceeds will be donated to Palestine Australia Relief and Action (PARA).
Supported by the City of Yarra, Creative Victoria and Creative Australia.
Richmond Library Theatrette is fully wheelchair accessible via a lift.
un Magazine and its editors would like to acknowledge that these screenings are held on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land and Muwinina land, and that sovereignty of these lands was never ceded. We offer our sincere respects to the Elders of the Kulin Nations, past and present, and the Palawa/Pakana Elders of lutruwita, Tasmania. We extend these respects to the Elders of World Indigenous communities. Sovereignty of these lands was never ceded.
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.
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.
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