Diego Ramírez is an artist with dreams, a writer with hopes and a facilitator with beliefs. He is represented by MARS Gallery.

Beau Lamarre-Condon former NSW Police Officer’s writing was first featured at the Born This Way Lady Gaga tour in Sydney 2014 when he threw a letter to her on stage. Remnants of the letter were published in the Sydney Morning Herald that year.1 — Dear Lady Gaga, It’s me again. However it may be some […]

Very often we find in curatorial notes, art institutional manifestos and exhibitionary preambles, a signalling towards the etymological origins of curating in ideas of care since both ‘curation’ and ‘curative’ are drawn from the same source: ‘cura’ or care.  In a (non)conclusive note at the end of a ramble that I contributed to an edited […]

Recent readings have begun, more often than not, with in memoriam. For Dad, Brother, Grayling. For Michael and for all the lost loves. If we turn towards death and look at its folds the lists will abound. To step into the National Museum and Art Gallery of Papua New Guinea (NMAG) is to pass again […]

On the 196th day of a live-streamed genocide in Palestine, I find that many words have lost their meaning. Words I might have spoken once with seriousness, even reverence. I might once have imagined a word as a portal, humming with futurity. But co-option makes a ghost train out of language. ‘Decolonisation’ is one word […]

As Country was cut, divided, commodified and consumed through colonial surveying, so too were the systems that governed the care of land and kin by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities for over 65,000 years. This disruption to systems of sustaining care was marked by a shift towards individualism and the accumulation of wealth and […]

In April 1972, a discussion group was convened at the University of Sydney. The group was tasked with processing a three-part performance by Tim Johnson, held at the university eleven days earlier at the invitation of Guy Warren for the School of Architecture, as many involved considered the performance works to be anti-social and misogynist […]

Current cultures of care follow a necrophilic impulse, identifying community needs along diagnoses or political ideologies. To express a need that falls outside these predetermined schemas, or worse yet to act on it, is to prove yourself toxic, problematic, dangerous. The parts of life that are messy — when an episode will not yield to […]

Increasingly one might expect a person sensitive to our settler-colonial situation to acknowledge that we are occupying a space that rests and operates within multiple likely unceded territories. That this place has always been [insert place name] a network of intersecting Indigenous movements. If this acknowledgement is performed by one claiming Indigenous ancestry, one might […]