Sam Calafiore, Same Old, Same Old, 2024, still
Gallery 4
Firstdraft Screening Program
beingbaker, Sam Calafiore, Bella Deary, Emily Dynes, Julian Hamman, Callum McGrath, Daniel Merson, Yanti Peng, Diego Ramírez, Yundi Wang
Firstdraft is reviving our screening program to support ten artists working across video, film, and screen-based practice. The screening program runs from December 2025 - March 2026, offering multiple perspectives responding to two curatorial premises.
All works will screen at our 12th December 2025 and 13th February 2026 openings.
Individual screening dates are listed below.
The unbearable middle:
As we navigate a period of deepening wealth and social inequality, the re-emergence of authoritarianism, and a reimagining of feudalism under capitalism, how are class structures impacting our daily lives? Works in The Unbearable Middle explore the lived realities of class in Australia. These artists interrogate the systemic conditions of class stratification and reflect on how class intersects with race, gender, disability, migration, and other structural inequalities.
The unbearable middle:
12th December 2025 - 23rd January 2026
Sam Calafiore, Julian Hamman, Daniel Merson, Yundi Wang
Doomsday clock set to my circadian rhythm:
We are currently living within overlapping systems of collapse, with our everyday being shaped by climate catastrophe, economic instability, political volatility, and social fragmentation. The weight of these crises is not only felt at a structural level but absorbed into the body, reshaping our rhythms, nervous systems, and ways of moving through the world. How do we register disaster in real-time when there is no space for recovery, only the relentless churn of the next unfolding emergency?
Doomsday clock set to my circadian rhythm: Breath Work
24 January - 28th February 2026
beingbaker, Bella Deary, Emily Dynes
Doomsday clock set to my circadian rhythm: Future Archaeology
