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 […]

September 2024 I composed this editorial many times over in my head, but had trouble putting the words down. This text surmises months of thinking and of avoiding thinking. Under frameworks of Western social values, loss and grief are often siloed; only appropriate in certain circumstances. [1] Western mourning practices are marked by offering condolences, […]

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 […]

Artist: Nunzio Madden Curator: Olivia Koh Nunzio Madden’s video work, Bush Doof (2019) begins with a voicemail. The call contains the details of an accident – a child has fallen off the back of a tractor driven by their dad. The caller, the dad, is ringing to apologise and tells the artist, the child who […]