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.
un Projects

Mihret Kebede

Archiving Silence — emerging defiance from ‘the hush’ 

Archiving Silence — emerging defiance from ‘the hush’   What would you do if you felt exiled in a place you call home? What measures would you take if you felt excluded from the community you believe you belong to? If you found yourself with nowhere to escape to, trapped in a space where your […]

Tristen Harwood

11 short prompts // institutional hell

( ) // Signal: Begin with a scene   of a faded colonial signal    —road sign, farm fence, fuzzy    radio broadcast, oxidised inscription.    How does this signal connect you to the past?                     What phantom dispatches does it relay                —impossible testimony—what orders make    flesh reverb // are they written? Exhumation in brown // red: Imagine the process  […]

Peta Clancy and Olivia Koh

down from merri merri – a conversation in Coburg

We would like to acknowledge the sovereign Traditional Custodians of the land on which we live as uninvited guests, in the suburb now known as Coburg – the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Eastern Kulin Nation in Naarm. We acknowledge the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people of the Kulin Nation, who are the Custodians of […]

Juliette Berkeley and Ronen Jafari

Dinner for two

Ronen Jafari likes to cook with and for friendsJuliette Berkeley doesn’t really do anything.

Lily Golightly and Jemi Gale

we are still friends

We have been sending each other drawings and letters and adding onto them. The artwork is so busy and full like a conversation with all of the words squished in together. It’s hard to talk about our friend because we miss them but because we both knew them we are sort of keeping them here […]

Monica Rani Rudhar

A Shoe Box Under My Bed

In my childhood home, we had a living room that we used only for when guests visited. It was the untouched section of the house and featured a Persian-style carpet, cream leather couches, a coffee table covered with a small crochet doily, a dining table with a plastic table protector and four mahogany wall units. […]

Ellen van Neerven

Portrait of Destiny 

I don’t live as an artist. Destiny Deacon, 2018 multi-dimensional     magick K’ua K’ua     Erub/Mer     woman funny     sharp     strong     communal history     politics     radio     performance photography     video     installation Thanks, Sis, for dropping the ‘c’     for us urban Blaks You gave us way to     break […]

Benjamin Bannan

Viral Traces

I take my pill every morning and I observe its colour, the same pale blue used in a series of works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Loverboy, made between 1989 and 1991. Blue curtains, blue stacks of paper, blue lollies. The title suggests that the works are portraits, yet these monochromes do not depict a figure; instead, […]

Zainab Hikmet and Anna Emina El Samad

Dearest Zainab

18 August 2024  Dearest Zainab,  As my sister Safa and I were rushing down Sydney Road — stuck behind the 19 tram in Brunswick —  trying to make it to the last coffee shop open on a Sunday, she mentioned your cousin, Lina. How her visit in January felt like it had just happened, last […]

Yannick Blattner

Artist profile

Unlike the broader associations of horse racing, dog racing is typically associated with the working class due to its lower cost of participation, proximity to urban centres and evening race schedules. Bred specifically for racing, greyhounds possess an innate prey drive that compels their unrelenting pursuit of the lure. Despite their reputation as sporting dogs, […]

Jack Ball

Magic marker 8, 2023

Wendy Hubert

Elyas Alavi

Memory is a dagger, 2022

Leila el Rayes

vulnerable & volatile, 2016 / the stone throwers slingshot, 2018 / Dancing in the crevice of desire, 2018

Read this piece in full in the print version of un Magazine 17.1 RESIST.

Olga Svyatova

Dear Friend, 2021-ongoing

Olga Svyatova is an artist from Russia, now based in Eora/Sydney. In their practice they explore complex links between memory, relationships and identity.

Liv Moriarty

Nosedive

Throughout In Free Fall, Hito Steyerl proposes an ontology of falling, characterising our contemporary condition as one of groundlessness. It is an infinite free fall caused by looking down at oneself from satellites up above. Expanding upon the text, my diagrams merge dimension, perspective and orientation; producing a cartographic tangle that is at once open-ended […]

Lewis Gittus

Soft Heaps of Leaves, a Hymn

For three days I wandered the labyrinth of Jean Ray’s 1943 novel, Malpertuis1, fumbling my way along its gloomy passages. These notes are my only recollections; vague sensory impressions from a story told by an idiot, a tale of sound and fury that unravels in darkness, its cloistered spaces repulsively damp, brought to life via […]

Sarah Poulgrain

Hat Making

Instructions Cut 2 brim from fabric Cut crown band on the fold of the fabric Cut top oval Sew C shapes of brim together making two O shapes Sew crown band together Sew two O shapes together with the external side of fabric facing inwards Sew one ring around the perimeter Flip inside out Sew […]

Anne-Marie Te Whiu

A Bibliography of a Weave, 2022

Anne-Marie Te Whiu (Te Rarawa) is a poet, weaver, cultural producer and editor. She previously co-directed the Queensland Poetry Festival and currently works at Red Room Poetry. She is a recipient of the Next Chapter Fellowship and is studying a Master of Māori Studies at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi.

Sumugan Sivanesan

PROTOTYPING

Mandy Quadrio

Speaking within the kelp

Mia Boe

The Nostalgia
of Mother and Child

I am a descendent of the Butchulla people of K’gari. I’m a daughter of a Burmese man who left his birth country as a refugee at the age of five. My mother didn’t grow up on Country, she didn’t know she was Aboriginal until she was a teenager – my grandmother was worried she’d have […]

Dean Cross

Mandarin/Orange

Dean Cross was born and raised on Ngunnawal/ Ngambri Country and is a Worimi man through his paternal bloodline. He is a paratactical artist interested in collisions of materials, ideas and histories. He is motivated by the understanding that his practice sits within a continuum of the oldest living culture on Earth — and enacts […]

Dean Cross

Deep Heat

Dean Cross was born and raised on Ngunnawal/ Ngambri Country and is a Worimi man through his paternal bloodline. He is a paratactical artist interested in collisions of materials, ideas and histories. He is motivated by the understanding that his practice sits within a continuum of the oldest living culture on Earth — and enacts […]