A pseudo-fictional review of Lovefool and AdminAdmin Issue #1 at Strawberry, 2024 1996: it was the summer before sixth grade. It was also the summer Jill Bates told my friend John she wanted to give him a handjob. None of us had gotten a handjob before and even less of us knew what it actually […]

Co-curated by Olivia Koh and Nadia Refaei. Friday 18 October 2024, Naarm/Melbourne and Nipaluna/Hobart. This short film program, Collection (spell), is co-curated by un Magazine guest editors Nadia Refaei and Olivia Koh (recess), the current editors of incoming issues 18.3 Sabaar and Other Counter Archives and 18.4 good grief. This screening took place concurrently in […]

When we founded the Melbourne Sculpture Biennale, I was inspired by the DIY culture in our artistic community and the rich history of artist-led projects, as well as a new wave of young art graduates who are starting various project spaces. There is this fertile ground in Melbourne right now. People seem to be taking on different kinds of projects and running with them. That, for me, was the catalyst as well as my personal interest in sculpture.

In 1974 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released That’s Entertainment! to celebrate the studio’s 50th anniversary which now, in 2024, marks its 100th year centenary. Perhaps to echo the film’s status as a proto-highlight reel anticipating a legacy, the exhibition of the same name at Animal House is a dedication to Yusi Zang, Tim Woodward, Beth Maslen, Chris Madden, […]

The Possibilities Are Immense: Fifty Years of the George Paton Gallery comes at a transitional moment for the University of Melbourne’s student gallery, also known as the GPG. In 2022, the GPG moved out of the decrepit old asbestos-riddled student union building and into the new student ‘precinct,’ a conglomerate of sinewy grey concrete, golden […]

Housed within Buxton Contemporary, The same crowd never gathers twice is an exhibition with a curious title. It initially provoked me to think of moments when I found myself situated within crowds, organised or not, such as the dinner table, the food court or a tram stop. And how fleeting the configurations of crowds are, […]

Travelling north on the 86 for the group exhibition Five rooms and house rules at Bundoora Homestead Arts Centre, I find myself playing a kind of phrase association to see how frequently I can think of different idiomatic uses of ‘house’ and ‘home’. For the most part, the ‘home’ sayings encircle the same kind of […]

Last month, GPU manufacturer NVIDIA’s share prices tumbled by nine-point-five per cent, representing the greatest loss in market value in one day for any company ever at a loss of 279 billion dollars 1. The GPU is the primary technology that powers AI, and harnessed en masse allows for inference to be conducted at industrial […]

Dylan Marriott REMEMBER THE DARKNESS Gallery Notturno, 259 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne  23 June – 27 July 2024 Wake up, put on pants and catch the tram into the city. At the intersection of Elizabeth and Lonsdale street, cross over. Keep walking. You will see a brown dog near the entrance to the Emporium. It will […]

Đây Thôn Vĩ Dạ by Hàn Mặc Tử Sao anh không về chơi thôn Vĩ?Nhìn nắng hàng cau nắng mới lên.Vườn ai mướt quá, xanh như ngọcLá trúc che ngang mặt chữ điền. Gió theo lối gió, mây đường mây,Dòng nước buồn thiu, hoa bắp lay…Thuyền ai đậu bến sông trăng đó,Có chở trăng về kịp […]

un Projects and MUMA presents…  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 […]

un Projects is coming to Meanjin/Brisbane this Saturday! ‘Care, Who Cares? is a one-day symposium hosted by @griffithuniversityartmuseum and @ima_brisbaneexploring the murky notion and rhetoric of care, coinciding with the exhibition ‘Duty of Care’. Incoming un Magazine guest editors Tara Heffernan (18.1 Badaud) and Joel Sherwood Spring (18.2 After-care) will be presenting respectively, and we […]

Friday 16 August 6pm Featuring curator Aziz Sohail in conversation with artists Thang Do and Mandeep Singh. Followed by readings from artist Parminder Kaur. Alongside these readings and conversation, artist Andrea Illés will be performing her evolutive work, sorry I was so hungry. From 4pm, Illés will be visible from a humble computer screen, sitting […]

Diego Ramírez is an artist with dreams, a writer with hopes and a facilitator with beliefs. He is represented by MARS Gallery.

Beau Lamarre-Condon former NSW Police Officer’s writing was first featured at the Born This Way Lady Gaga tour in Sydney 2014 when he threw a letter to her on stage. Remnants of the letter were published in the Sydney Morning Herald that year.1 — Dear Lady Gaga, It’s me again. However it may be some […]

Very often we find in curatorial notes, art institutional manifestos and exhibitionary preambles, a signalling towards the etymological origins of curating in ideas of care since both ‘curation’ and ‘curative’ are drawn from the same source: ‘cura’ or care.  In a (non)conclusive note at the end of a ramble that I contributed to an edited […]

Recent readings have begun, more often than not, with in memoriam. For Dad, Brother, Grayling. For Michael and for all the lost loves. If we turn towards death and look at its folds the lists will abound. To step into the National Museum and Art Gallery of Papua New Guinea (NMAG) is to pass again […]

On the 196th day of a live-streamed genocide in Palestine, I find that many words have lost their meaning. Words I might have spoken once with seriousness, even reverence. I might once have imagined a word as a portal, humming with futurity. But co-option makes a ghost train out of language. ‘Decolonisation’ is one word […]

As Country was cut, divided, commodified and consumed through colonial surveying, so too were the systems that governed the care of land and kin by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities for over 65,000 years. This disruption to systems of sustaining care was marked by a shift towards individualism and the accumulation of wealth and […]

In April 1972, a discussion group was convened at the University of Sydney. The group was tasked with processing a three-part performance by Tim Johnson, held at the university eleven days earlier at the invitation of Guy Warren for the School of Architecture, as many involved considered the performance works to be anti-social and misogynist […]

Current cultures of care follow a necrophilic impulse, identifying community needs along diagnoses or political ideologies. To express a need that falls outside these predetermined schemas, or worse yet to act on it, is to prove yourself toxic, problematic, dangerous. The parts of life that are messy — when an episode will not yield to […]

Increasingly one might expect a person sensitive to our settler-colonial situation to acknowledge that we are occupying a space that rests and operates within multiple likely unceded territories. That this place has always been [insert place name] a network of intersecting Indigenous movements. If this acknowledgement is performed by one claiming Indigenous ancestry, one might […]

Torsion, Curated by Kyle Weise 9 Dec 2023–27 Jan 2024 Metro Arts, Meanjin/Brisbane In 1993 I was ten years old and wanted for few things except for a pair of Nike Airs. When my classmate, Stephen, intentionally stabbed the point of his compass through the clear window of his red and white Air Max, I […]

I One of the great critiques of ‘philistinism’ — or what today we could call badauderie — is Nietzsche’s four 1873–76 essays published together as Unfashionable Observations. To the surprise of anyone who mistakes Nietzsche — as he so often is mistaken — for a sieg-heiling proto-fascist, we do not find him here proudly marching […]