For the past three years, Nunzio Madden’s paintings have played host to one character and one character only. Musclebound and jaundiced, it is a plain anatomy of disquieting features: its head, bald as an egg and tiny relative to its hypermasculine, double-linebacker shoulders, hangs expressionless above a Ken-smooth crotch. Madden’s recent exhibition at KINGS, titled […]
Melbourne Art Ephemera Archive was established by Liam Vaughan in 2020, with a specific focus on collecting and cataloguing materials produced by artist-run, offsite and other non-institutional spaces. These documents consist of roomsheets, flyers, posters, social media posts, essays and so on, which often fall outside the remit of larger institutional collecting practices. Yet these […]
Machine Residue โ Curated by Yi Li Trocadero Projects 1 October โ 2 November 2025 In the accompanying exhibition text, curator Yi Li writes that Machine Residue, recently shown at Trocadero Projects, ‘does not seek one single narrative, but rather an assemblage of lived and imagined experiences that … disrupt reductive representations, and reveal the complex residues […]
On Friday 19 September, un Projects had the Boorloo launch of 19.1 Resonant Imaginaries and Sound Clashes. un celebrated the launch featuring a panel talk with Dr. Sarah Collin, and contributors Ross Bolleter & Eduardo Cossio, and mgmgmg (Samuel Beilby, Chandler Abrahams, Paul Boye, Levi Mclean) plus live performances.
On Saturday 13 September, un Projects had the Naarm launch of un Magazine 19.1 Resonant Imaginaries and Sound Clashes. Guest Editor Lucreccia Quintanilla introduced the edition, as un celebrated the launch with readings from contributors Justine Makdessi and Mikhael Touma, as well as sounds from Nadeem Tiafau Eshraghi & Ripley Kavara, Suneel Jethani, and Nicholas […]
Tera Echo – Daisy Dale CollierBlak Dot Gallery12 July โ 3 August 2025 At the gallery entrance Iโm greeted by the exhibition title, Tera Echo, underscored with red ochre dragged across the wall, a handwritten epigraph of Country and kin. Beyond the partition wall, the room is painted black like a night sky turned inside […]
As I sit to write this, US-backed Israel has officially resumed its genocidal campaign against Gaza, and continues its violations across greater Palestine, Lebanon and Syria. At the time of writing, Creative Australia has revoked Lebanese artist Khaled Sabsabiโs nomination to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale in 2026 and Monash University has indefinitely postponed […]
When I first started writing music in Mandarin and Hokkien, I didnโt think that I was one day going to write about โtonal meltingsโ or the affect of listening to music similar to mine โ indie-folk tunes and ballads supported by the mantra-like repetition of acoustic guitar motifs, with tenderness and plainness in the lyricism. […]
Every summer, time slipped by in a haze. As the season evaporated under the sunโs dry gaze, quick like tears on midday pavement, the afternoon hours would grow deep and long. At summerโs end we would mourn its swiftness but during it we were routinely fatigued by its painful luminosity. On summer afternoons I would […]
Polyphony for Intertidal Ecologies was a participatory workshop and performance event at Monmar (Point Nepean) that took place on 8 February 2025. Participants included: Vฤimanatu Avene, Elijah Cristiano, Anna Farago, Frosty, Audax M. Gawler, Bridget Hillebrand, Jivan Simons Mistry, Georgia Nowak, Rosa Mar Tato Ortega, Justine Walsh, Dominic White and Christabel Wigley. We are walking across the […]
For the following conversation, we met each other outside our studios. We talked; we are friends and enjoy talking art and Blackfella shit. Nicholas (NC): Could we transcribe something โcause the brief for the magazine was about sound? You’ve (Daisy) done sound and music for a long time. I also done music. Daisy (D): This […]
On the occasion of Andrea Illรฉs’ performance, no rock, no flower (West Space, 6 September – 25 October 2025), her collaborator Tom Denize reflects on the ungraspable nature of Illรฉs’ work. Illรฉs is a performance artist whose work has been featured at SOFT CENTRE, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery (NZ), Visual Diary, and more. Her […]
In 1975 at the University of California San Diego, an ensemble of white American performance artists led a sonic meditation bearing resemblance to Indigenous ceremonial traditions. Embedded in the performance were Native American and Australian Aboriginal acoustic cues, Eastern spiritual motifs and Lakota perspectives that had been compressed into a mono-cultural pallet for Western listeners.[1] […]
What does it mean to speed up? Does it mean to surrender to a rhythm so fast and unstable that it fractures the bodyโs relationship to its own movement and sense of time? Singeli is a hyperkinetic electronic music genre that emerged in the 2000s from within the rapid urbanisation of post-colonial Tanzania. Known for […]
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Part 3: Parasitic/noid/social virality: six comments on @dr.kiyasu WHAT are they nodding about ๐ญ ยน I wish I was one of the 7 annoyed people in the audience ยฒ ok but can we ignore […]
Nadeem: Ancestors and oceans It always starts with the ocean โ moana, solwara, vast blue expanse; unifying link โ the Great Ocean. A constellation of lands, seas and peoples that have long known Indigenous being, thinking, and relating through sound, story and collectivity. Before colonial and evangelical interference, sound had been a paramount and persistent […]
Amanda Gutiรฉrrezโs radiophonic soundwalk Resilience, midnight steps and the moon as guide from A to Z was a commission for Radio Insomnia, presented with members of Brujas and Tribu Collectives. Brujas now operates as RedArtFEM (Red de Mujeres Artistas y Feminista). The initiative aims to act as a social resource for artists as a response […]
Dual Tongues spans two voices, a friendship, four years, two continents, WhatsApp chats, smoke breaks, long train rides, and the moments that feel meaningful in the spaces between disciplined and discursive contexts. This cross-border dialogue moves through alignments, associations and clashes that appear in our practice of mixing music frequently heard in ritual cultures. This […]
Almost every time I play a vinyl record, I think about the other copies of it that exist in the world and if anyone else might be playing one of them at the same time. A lattice of coincidence A lot of people don’t realise what’s really going on. They view life as a bunch […]
I first became acquainted with Jared Xuโs work when I was in Taipei in 2023. At the time, I was learning about the early history of Taiwanese noise music that began to garner a small but loyal following in the years after the countryโs thirty-eight year martial law was lifted in 1987. The first wave […]
Please see the online version of this article to play a sound file while reading this piece. As a Tangata Tiriti-Pฤkehฤ sound artist now living on Wurundjeri Country, this writing โ much like my practice โ deviates, trespasses and wanders off. Growing up as a sixth generation beneficial-coloniser from a farming family in lower Te […]
This transcript is taken from two interviews conducted in June 2025 at Yusi Zang’s Gertrude Contemporary studio in Preston South. Born in Beijing, Zang moved to Naarm / Melbourne in 2014 to study Fine Arts at Monash University, and has since solidified a practice across painting and sculpture, exhibiting at an impressive schedule in artist-run, […]
Of Stadiums and Construction Sites (Ne change rien pour que tout soit diffรฉrent)21 June – 10 August 2025Gertrude Contemporary The videos that A Constructed World (Jacqueline Riva, Geoff Lowe, et al.) made in the mid-00s are considerably more pared down than their earlier and their later ones. There is no speech. The Melbourne-born, Paris-based artist […]
Thereโs a certain kind of art that insists too much on being art โ polished, declared, and coded for legibility. Then thereโs Lilly Skipper. Her work operates at a frequency too low for immediate classification, too dry for spectacle, and too structurally odd to be comfortably consumed. And yet, it lingers โ not because it […]