Machine Residue – Curated by Yi Li Trocadero Projects 1 October – 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 […]

Tera Echo – Daisy Dale CollierBlak Dot Gallery12 July – 3 August 2025 At the gallery entrance I’m 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 […]

On the occasion of Andrea Illés’ performance, no rock, no flower (West Space, 6 September – 25 October 2025), her collaborator Tom Denize reflects on the ungraspable nature of Illés’ work. Illés is a performance artist whose work has been featured at SOFT CENTRE, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery (NZ), Visual Diary, and more. Her […]

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 différent)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 […]

There’s a certain kind of art that insists too much on being art — polished, declared, and coded for legibility. Then there’s 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 — not because it […]

The English artist Ti Parks spent almost exactly a decade in Naarm / Melbourne. Arriving in 1964, after a stint in art school he was featured in the Young Contemporaries exhibitions of Swinging London, where generations of bright Brits cut their teeth (the 1963 iteration included both Parks and a young chap called David Hockney). […]

Something like a laboratory, Hugo Blomley has litres of chemicals stacked in the corner of his studio. Two separate workbenches are covered with drills and hardware, screws and nails, discarded moulds, half-opened adhesives tubes and mislabelled plastic bottles. Another bench wraps around the perimeter of the space littered with scales, epoxy, bottles of acetone, a […]

to carry songs: a diary        and thoughts              about language                    in fragments  : reflections from March Meeting 2025: Sharjah Biennial 16  1. Between 4 February and 10 March 2025, I went to Sharjah Biennial in the United Arab […]

I’m on the phone with the artist Edward Dean. He’s supposed to be in German class right now, but he’s ducked out early and is walking through the snow. He finds himself living in Berlin, by way of Lisbon, by way of Melbourne, originally from Albury, NSW. We’re catching up on the state of things, […]

Last November, a banana duct-taped to a wall sold for US $6.24 million. The piece, Comedian (2019) by Maurizio Cattelan, runs in a limited edition of three, the second of which having been sold for much more than its estimated value to Justin Sun, a collector and the founder of the cryptocurrency platform TRON.[1] Sun […]

The Listening to the Archive website is a collection of music performances, along with associated recordings, posters, and publications, from events held regularly at the Clifton Hill Community Music Centre (CHCMC) between 1976 and 1983. Also known as the Organ Factory—named after the community-run building that housed the centre—CHCMC became a space for experimentation in music, […]

Translation is like trying to hold the wind. You can feel it, but you can’t keep it. In a captivating conversation with Celine Skaf, a translator and interpreter, we delve into the emotional landscapes that emerge when art is transmitted across languages. Skaf shares her journey through film, poetry, and visual art, revealing how these forms shape her translation practice.

In a world teetering on the brink of social and climate collapse, “The Charge that Binds” at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art offers a glimmer of hope. This exhibition challenges dominant narratives and amplifies the voices of the historically marginalised, intertwining art with urgent conversations about identity, colonisation and ecological crisis. Through immersive installations and collaborative works, the show invites audiences to reflect on our interconnectedness with the planet and each other. As we confront the looming specter of fascism and environmental degradation, this exhibition emerges as a radical act of collective resilience and a call for transformative change.

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 […]

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 […]

Somewhere there is a Siren. Beginning with the utterance of a single note,  she listens for the return of her own voice.  She responds with the same note again,  and again, echoing into an endless chorus,  a swarm, a sea, a body. Her voices  fill the room with an ethereal presence,  escaping into the world, […]