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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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 […]

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 […]