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Raafat Ishak, , 35 (detail) 2015, mixed media, image courtesy the artist and Sutton Gallery, Melbourne

un 10.2

ed. Shelley McSpedden

Editorial: The Throng
Shelley McSpedden

Restaging the collective: a conversational review of Sharon Hayes’ In My Little Corner of the World, Anyone Would Love You and Alex Martinis Roe’s Our Future Network
Laura Castagnini and Rose Gibbs

Trying to explain Hal Foster’s critique on the failure of minimalism to my brother with fishing line a blue Dior tie, a tree trunk, maroon felt, a yellow block of wood, and a Banksia Coccina whilst two boys are kissing on the news. F11, 1/90, Flash, B for brush… CMYK SWOP coated for editorial 2016
Nikos Pantazopoulos

Love and decolonisation in actu
Tristen Harwood

The goblet the jug and the rock were sitting on a ledge with a sign that said free, I took them to reflect on and use as material. I placed them next to a gold leaf maquette of the showers of Kens Karate Klub, yellow felt, and a foot form with a brown sock waiting to cradle the ultimate shoe. It wasn’t the twink who is a chubby chaser but the tall boy with the Errol Flynn moustache, who left these objects, he is nice, he took the time. F11, 1/90, Flash, B for brush… CMYK SWOP coated for editorial 2016
Nikos Pantazopoulos

The polyphony of polyphonies
Tiarney Miekus

FEMMO™
Virginia Fraser and Elvis Richardson

Interview with Amy Spiers and Catherine Ryan
Anusha Kenny

Graduate Research and Withdrawal 2015
Raafat Ishak

Charcoal, chalk and pencil
Nathan Gray

Refuge/e
Zanny Begg

Audience 22/1/15 2013–2016; Audience 2/2/15 2013–2016; Audience 1/6/15 2013–2016; Audience 13/7/15 2013–2016; Audience 4/11/15 2013–2016; Audience 27/11/15 2013–2016
Ross Coulter

If you invested here: Sydney, SquatSpace and its Tour of Beauty
Pedro de Almeida

Civil Wall c. 2011
Tom Civil

Mass action media: Ende Gelände, Break Free 2016
Sumugan Sivanesan

Ununiun
Sam Wallman

Export quality extended: an exchange with The Office of Culture & Design
Michelle James

A brief history of Hue 2016
Phuong Ngo

A crowd of soccer players, a group of lawyers, a band of Malay Muslims
Nick Modrzewski

Emile Zile: digital communion
Elise Routledge

Jimmy Nuttall, GINA, and an erotics of loneliness
Lauren Burrow

Scene, and being seen at Day for Night
Luke Letourneau

‘Nods all around: orientations in recent spatial practice’ — a response
Georgina Criddle

Coq au vin presents Hard on the Heels of… — an ornithological examination of artistic collaboration in a globalised age
Matthew Taft and Julian R. Murphy

Art holds a high place in my life / Damp: study of an artist at 21
Georgia Robenstone

THE NUMBER YOU HAVE REACHED
Anna Dunnill

Anzac Centenary Print Portfolio
Nick Terrell

Interview with Amy Spiers and Catherine Ryan, 2016 (full transcript)
Anusha Kenny

Export quality extended: an exchange with The Office of Culture & Design (full transcript)
Michelle James

Dear Homophobia
Laura Castagnini

Responding to Mayday
Tiarney Miekus

Refuge
Zanny Begg

My Dad the People Smuggler
Phuong Ngo