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.
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Naarm/Melbourne 19.2 Magazine Launch

Issue 19.2 of un Magazine, ‘We Swear We Saw This. Drawings about notebooks and notebooks about the wor(l)ds,’ guest-edited by Azza Zein, was launched in Naarm across two events. On Saturday, 31 January at Dukkana, Coburg, contributors Carlos Eduardo Morreo, Tina Stefanou, Hugh Magnus, and Azza Zein read from and discussed their work. The event opened […]

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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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19.1 Naarm/Melbourne Magazine Launch

On Saturday 13 September, un Projects had the Naarm launch of un Magazine 19.1 Resonant Imaginaries and Sound Clashes. un celebrated the launch with an introduction from Guest Editor Lucreccia Quintanilla and readings from contributor Justine Makdessi with translation by Mikhael Touma, as well as sounds from Nadeem Tiafau Eshraghi & Ripley Kavara, Suneel Jethani, […]

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un Projects x Nyege Nyege x RISING: Resonant Imaginaries

For the 2025 RISING Festival un Talks placed Kampire, a vibrant bass-heavy DJ and core member of Nyege Nyege Collective in conversation with Samira Farah, curator, producer and host of The Score on RRR. This talk coincided with the publication of un Magazine’s issue 19.1, Resonant Imaginaries and sound clashes guest edited by Lucreccia Quintanilla, bringing […]

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Nipaluna/Hobart Magazine Launch

On May 3 (2025) 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 Pavilion. un celebrated the launch with talks from Olivia Koh and Nadia Refaei, and readings from Grace Gamage, Caine Chennatt, Feras […]

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Naarm/Melbourne 18.4 Magazine Launch

un Projects held 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 on April 17, 2025. un celebrated the launch with a roundtable from contributors Anna Emina, Zainab Hikmet, Jacqui Shelton, Lana Nguyen, Benjamin Bannan, […]

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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 […]

Catherine Liu

Catherine Liu at CY Yards

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 […]

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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 […]

Aziz Sohail

Ebb & Flow: Queer / Migrant Intimacies

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 […]

Ella Howells

Archive as Practice

Introducing Archive as Practice an afternoon # of music and talks curated by one of our 2024 un Extended Editor-in-Residents, Ella Howells. 📓 On Saturday June 1 from 3-9pm, the iconic Mission to Seafarers will house an afternoon-to-evening affair of talks, and performances by local artists, writers and musicians who are interested in cross-generational archival […]

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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 […]