Nothing to lose but your lanyards! – reflections on unionising at an art gallery.
Emily Hubbard
From a gallery volunteer to the surreal theatre of the Fair Work Commission, this reflection traces the grind of union struggle and its ongoing effects. It questions whether collectivity can really survive in an industry that remains perpetually reliant on casual insecurity and actively dissolving any form of solidarity
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Sick Witch Recites The Greater Mandala of Uselessness
Amaara Raheem
Responding to the provocation “Doomsday clock set to my circadian rhythm,” SICK WITCH RECITES examines how chronic illness reconfigures time, embodiment, feminist lineage, and magical forms of resistance.
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Jal Jalaa
In the language of Hindi the word 'jal' means water and 'jalaa' translates to the English word burn. Playing with multiple forms and shapes of poems - from concrete to lyric poetry - Aarushi Zarthoshtimaneshi’s buoyant metaphors seek to move fluidly within the white pages - as if traversing the seven seas, converging on the page to form a confluence of plurality.
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Feeling images and sensing words
Megan R. Fizell
Following the increased reliance on web-based media to present contemporary art during the COVID-19 pandemic, the project responds to the growing demand to develop and expand the ways institutions represent and describe artworks online.
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Sonya Holowell
Danger/Dancer examines Australia’s legacy of institutions and the continuing operation of these fraught systems today.
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The Bad Fiji Gyals
This essay will reflect on what it means to write our own history, the significance of giving back agency to our ancestors and acknowledge generational labour around knowledge production.
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