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Boorloo/Perth Magazine Launch

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.

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Naarm/Melbourne Magazine Launch

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 […]

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un Projects x Nyege Nyege x Rising: Resonant Imaginaries

On Thursday 5 June, ahead of the incoming un Magazine issue 19.1 Resonant Imaginaries and sound clashes guest edited by Lucreccia Quintanilla, RISING x un Projects hosted a talk with Kampire @kkaybie a vibrant bass-heavy DJ who’s a core member of Nyege Nyege Collective in conversation with Samira Farah, curator, producer and host of The Score […]

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Nipaluna/Hobart Magazine Launch

On May 3 un Projects had the Nipaluna launch of un Magazine 18.3 Sabaar and Other Counter Archives ed. Nadia Refaei and 18.4 Good Grief ed. Olivia Koh at the Hobart Town Hall Underground. un celebrated the launch with talks from Olivia Koh and Nadia Refaei, and readings from Grace Gamage, Caine Chennatt, Feras Shaheen. […]

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Naarm/Melbourne Magazine Launch

On April 17 un Projects had the Naarm launch of un Magazine 18.3 Sabaar and Other Counter Archives ed. Nadia Refaei and 18.4 good grief ed. Olivia Koh at the Bargoonga Nganjin Fitzroy North Library. un celebrated the launch with a roundtable from contributors Anna Emina, Zainab Hikmet, Jacqui Shelton, Lana Nguyen, Benjamin Bannan, in […]

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Collection (spell)

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 […]

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un Projects at Care, Who Cares? Symposium

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 […]

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Responding to a most beautiful experiment: Writing workshops with West Space

We loved having everyone back in May part of our event responding, writing and discussing wani toaishara’s 𝙖 𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 by @wanitoaishara with @westspace  Emerging writers were invited to collectively experiment through writing and reading. Over two lively hours in the gallery, we watched the work, connected with peers, made new friends, experimented with […]

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Singing the Archive – presenting Ara Irititja

What you are about to read is a demonstration of Ara Irititja given at the International Australian Studies Association (InASA) Conference in December 2016.[^1] In the darkened lecture theatre, a clip from the Ara Irititja archive is projected onto the wall. It shows old people including Rene Kulitja’s father Walter Pukutiwara performing inma at a […]

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un Projects’ Letter to the Senate Committee

As was widely reported, the way in which the Federal Government supports the Australia Council changed dramatically this year. A total of $105 million, around 15 per cent of the Council’s budget, will be diverted to a new fund called the National Program of Excellence in Arts (NPEA) where grants are decided by the federal […]