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.
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Subtext

Book cover, reads 'Subtext: Artists and Writing'.

A curiosity about contemporary art, writing, and the way that ideas flow between the languages of both is the motivating force behind un Projects. As avid viewers and readers, we are constantly seeking texts that offer the creativeness and originality that characterises art, or searching for writing reflecting on art in new and imaginative ways. This is reflected in our aims for un Magazine.

The Subtext project was generated to further investigate the manifold approaches to writing undertaken by artists in their practice. The initial phase of Subtext, in June 2010, was a day-long symposium of discussions by artists, with Martha Rosler as keynote speaker. The second phase of Subtext was an exhibition at West Space, organised by a curatorium of un Projects members, held in February 2011.

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Photo of exhibition. A large paper work on a wall; a record player, amplifier and headphones on a plinth; a wooden display case with paper items.
Photo of two projected images. A blue ball in a gutter with superimposed text 'The remnants of the once biggest train station in Europe in the Nineteenth Century, just a façade still standing in 1945; his marker and our collective demarcation.' A weathered old wall with superimposed text 'From barbed wire to concrete. Now concrete, a wall, a division.'
A red record on a record player.
Items from display case. Print of an anthropomorphised sun in an architectural structure. Two anthropomorphised sun dishes, one with a blue diamond and cross overlaid. A pile of weathered cards, the top has an etching of palm trees and text '1. Hotel.'
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Pile of photocopied pages of a handwritten book, spread out.
Items from display case. Some the same as before. Image of hospital screen. Image of toys. More old cards.
Pile of stapled papers, with text 'Three sibling stories'.
Black canvas with 'hand ten' printed in white text in a sans-serif typeface. Either side is a similar white canvas with black text: 'hybrid today gone tomorrow' and 'not an animal or a plant'.
Watercolour painting of three people working together, above them are maps and diagrams and plants.
Photo of a room with a fold-out bed lit by two lamps, next to it is a bucket, in one corner a green plastic chair, in the other a TV on a milk crate, with books and a DVD player on top.