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Our book for MUMA’s reader series launches this Saturday morning at MUMA in Melbourne. ‘Earth Ethics: Art, Institutions and Regenerative Practices’ grew out of conversations at MUMA around responsibility to place and from its roots there bundled up inspiring work from all over the world. I’ve been proud and honoured to co-edit this with the incomparable @charday68 @madeleine___collie and @nutmegandhoney and with support and trust from @mumamonash and @stephanieberlangieri

Contributors: Joss Hamilton Allen, Larissa Behrendt, Jen Berean, Marleen Boschen, N’arweet Carolyn Briggs, Carolina Caycedo, Kath Coff, Madeleine Collie, Megan Cope, Annalee Davis, Keg de Souza, Sari Dennise, Janina Hilberer, Alexander Holland, Candice Hopkins, Alistair Hudson, Hanna Jurisch, Zayaan Khan, Barbara Kiolbassa, Ute Lührs, Lumbung Land Working Group, Victoria Lynn, Luna Marán, Brian Martin, Caroline Martin, Jessica Menger, Callum Morton, Jessica Neath, SJ Norman, Sofía Olascoaga, Tara Rodríguez Besosa, Stanislav Roudavski, Julian Rutten, Zoe Scoglio, Shooshie Sulaiman, Linda Tegg, David Tournier, Stéphane Verlet Bottéro, Rüdiger Waurig, Alia Yunis

Launch with birdwatching and talks:
Saturday 13 September, 9.30am–12.30pm
Location: Caulfield Racecourse Reserve (Caulfield Commons - Gate E, located near the corner of Queens Avenue and Normanby Rd) and Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA (Building F, Monash University, Caulfield campus, 900 Princes Hwy Service Rd, Caulfield East VIC 3145)

RSVP for event via @mumamonash
Book sales online via @monashuniversitypublishing

Image: Cover by @testen.studio and @stuartgeddes over view of Jen Berean, Callum Morton and Linda Tegg’s work ‘The Birds’ 2024 on the Ian Potter Sculpture Court at MUMA

This Saturday the 5th is the Sydney (Gadigal/Wangal land) launch of ‘fairy: an experiment in queer art pedagogy’, edited by @meldeerson and @spirospanigirakis (second pic!) and published by @3plyextratext, at @sydenham_international. I contributed an essay on Martin Boyd’s suite of watercolour drawings in the Monash University Collection (third and fourth pics) that grew out of a fun talk that @francisduparc and I did for Mel and Spiros’s initial Fitzroy Gardens (Naarm) iteration of fairy where we tried to come to grips with their apparent queerness (donkeys! dolphins! sun-kissed naked youths!) in the context of the novelist’s creative and spiritual life. Will be chatting about this and other fairy matters with the lovely and brilliant editors and some artist-contributors. There’s also a Naarm launch the week later which will be excellent but I won’t be there.

SYDNEY book launch
Sydenham International, 81 Sydenham Rd, Marrickville
3-5pm Saturday 5 October

MELBOURNE book launch
Australian Queer Archives, Mezzanine, 79/81 Fitzroy St, St Kilda
2.30-4pm Saturday 12 October

Martin Boyd images here: Untitled 1961 as reproduced in the fairy publication, Untitled 1962 being viewed in MUMA’s workshop, two of five works in the Monash University Collection donated by Carillo Gantner through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gift Program 2015

This Saturday the 5th is the Sydney (Gadigal/Wangal land) launch of ‘fairy: an experiment in queer art pedagogy’, edited by @meldeerson and @spirospanigirakis (second pic!) and published by @3plyextratext, at @sydenham_international. I contributed an essay on Martin Boyd’s suite of watercolour drawings in the Monash University Collection (third and fourth pics) that grew out of a fun talk that @francisduparc and I did for Mel and Spiros’s initial Fitzroy Gardens (Naarm) iteration of fairy where we tried to come to grips with their apparent queerness (donkeys! dolphins! sun-kissed naked youths!) in the context of the novelist’s creative and spiritual life. Will be chatting about this and other fairy matters with the lovely and brilliant editors and some artist-contributors. There’s also a Naarm launch the week later which will be excellent but I won’t be there.

SYDNEY book launch
Sydenham International, 81 Sydenham Rd, Marrickville
3-5pm Saturday 5 October

MELBOURNE book launch
Australian Queer Archives, Mezzanine, 79/81 Fitzroy St, St Kilda
2.30-4pm Saturday 12 October

Martin Boyd images here: Untitled 1961 as reproduced in the fairy publication, Untitled 1962 being viewed in MUMA’s workshop, two of five works in the Monash University Collection donated by Carillo Gantner through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gift Program 2015

This Saturday the 5th is the Sydney (Gadigal/Wangal land) launch of ‘fairy: an experiment in queer art pedagogy’, edited by @meldeerson and @spirospanigirakis (second pic!) and published by @3plyextratext, at @sydenham_international. I contributed an essay on Martin Boyd’s suite of watercolour drawings in the Monash University Collection (third and fourth pics) that grew out of a fun talk that @francisduparc and I did for Mel and Spiros’s initial Fitzroy Gardens (Naarm) iteration of fairy where we tried to come to grips with their apparent queerness (donkeys! dolphins! sun-kissed naked youths!) in the context of the novelist’s creative and spiritual life. Will be chatting about this and other fairy matters with the lovely and brilliant editors and some artist-contributors. There’s also a Naarm launch the week later which will be excellent but I won’t be there.

SYDNEY book launch
Sydenham International, 81 Sydenham Rd, Marrickville
3-5pm Saturday 5 October

MELBOURNE book launch
Australian Queer Archives, Mezzanine, 79/81 Fitzroy St, St Kilda
2.30-4pm Saturday 12 October

Martin Boyd images here: Untitled 1961 as reproduced in the fairy publication, Untitled 1962 being viewed in MUMA’s workshop, two of five works in the Monash University Collection donated by Carillo Gantner through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gift Program 2015

This Saturday the 5th is the Sydney (Gadigal/Wangal land) launch of ‘fairy: an experiment in queer art pedagogy’, edited by @meldeerson and @spirospanigirakis (second pic!) and published by @3plyextratext, at @sydenham_international. I contributed an essay on Martin Boyd’s suite of watercolour drawings in the Monash University Collection (third and fourth pics) that grew out of a fun talk that @francisduparc and I did for Mel and Spiros’s initial Fitzroy Gardens (Naarm) iteration of fairy where we tried to come to grips with their apparent queerness (donkeys! dolphins! sun-kissed naked youths!) in the context of the novelist’s creative and spiritual life. Will be chatting about this and other fairy matters with the lovely and brilliant editors and some artist-contributors. There’s also a Naarm launch the week later which will be excellent but I won’t be there.

SYDNEY book launch
Sydenham International, 81 Sydenham Rd, Marrickville
3-5pm Saturday 5 October

MELBOURNE book launch
Australian Queer Archives, Mezzanine, 79/81 Fitzroy St, St Kilda
2.30-4pm Saturday 12 October

Martin Boyd images here: Untitled 1961 as reproduced in the fairy publication, Untitled 1962 being viewed in MUMA’s workshop, two of five works in the Monash University Collection donated by Carillo Gantner through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gift Program 2015

Crow granting me passage (to my 45th year today), Ju being my best companion #juinchairs

Crow granting me passage (to my 45th year today), Ju being my best companion #juinchairs

Crow granting me passage (to my 45th year today), Ju being my best companion #juinchairs

Bless this Stanmore to Petersham walk, bless this sunny day, bless another homecoming among many these past four years

Nature as the whole - there is no “outside” - conjured by Sean Bailey’s paintings, industrial-organic surfaces, “sending out branches”, an “entangled forest”, “the swinging tree” (images 1-4 @dainesinger ). There’s also the giant worm swinging on the tree in Sam Peterson’s multispecies romance (images 5-6 @kingsartistrun in the excellent Other Body Knowledge curated by @janetrengove & @katie.ryan_ ), near the post-Cronulla racial phrase poems of @tiwitoo (7 @kingsartistrun ). Then ancient fossilised rain by @angelicamesiti at @annaschwartzgallery and enveloping group weather, as weather is never experienced alone (8-9).

Nature as the whole - there is no “outside” - conjured by Sean Bailey’s paintings, industrial-organic surfaces, “sending out branches”, an “entangled forest”, “the swinging tree” (images 1-4 @dainesinger ). There’s also the giant worm swinging on the tree in Sam Peterson’s multispecies romance (images 5-6 @kingsartistrun in the excellent Other Body Knowledge curated by @janetrengove & @katie.ryan_ ), near the post-Cronulla racial phrase poems of @tiwitoo (7 @kingsartistrun ). Then ancient fossilised rain by @angelicamesiti at @annaschwartzgallery and enveloping group weather, as weather is never experienced alone (8-9).

Nature as the whole - there is no “outside” - conjured by Sean Bailey’s paintings, industrial-organic surfaces, “sending out branches”, an “entangled forest”, “the swinging tree” (images 1-4 @dainesinger ). There’s also the giant worm swinging on the tree in Sam Peterson’s multispecies romance (images 5-6 @kingsartistrun in the excellent Other Body Knowledge curated by @janetrengove & @katie.ryan_ ), near the post-Cronulla racial phrase poems of @tiwitoo (7 @kingsartistrun ). Then ancient fossilised rain by @angelicamesiti at @annaschwartzgallery and enveloping group weather, as weather is never experienced alone (8-9).

Nature as the whole - there is no “outside” - conjured by Sean Bailey’s paintings, industrial-organic surfaces, “sending out branches”, an “entangled forest”, “the swinging tree” (images 1-4 @dainesinger ). There’s also the giant worm swinging on the tree in Sam Peterson’s multispecies romance (images 5-6 @kingsartistrun in the excellent Other Body Knowledge curated by @janetrengove & @katie.ryan_ ), near the post-Cronulla racial phrase poems of @tiwitoo (7 @kingsartistrun ). Then ancient fossilised rain by @angelicamesiti at @annaschwartzgallery and enveloping group weather, as weather is never experienced alone (8-9).

Nature as the whole - there is no “outside” - conjured by Sean Bailey’s paintings, industrial-organic surfaces, “sending out branches”, an “entangled forest”, “the swinging tree” (images 1-4 @dainesinger ). There’s also the giant worm swinging on the tree in Sam Peterson’s multispecies romance (images 5-6 @kingsartistrun in the excellent Other Body Knowledge curated by @janetrengove & @katie.ryan_ ), near the post-Cronulla racial phrase poems of @tiwitoo (7 @kingsartistrun ). Then ancient fossilised rain by @angelicamesiti at @annaschwartzgallery and enveloping group weather, as weather is never experienced alone (8-9).

Nature as the whole - there is no “outside” - conjured by Sean Bailey’s paintings, industrial-organic surfaces, “sending out branches”, an “entangled forest”, “the swinging tree” (images 1-4 @dainesinger ). There’s also the giant worm swinging on the tree in Sam Peterson’s multispecies romance (images 5-6 @kingsartistrun in the excellent Other Body Knowledge curated by @janetrengove & @katie.ryan_ ), near the post-Cronulla racial phrase poems of @tiwitoo (7 @kingsartistrun ). Then ancient fossilised rain by @angelicamesiti at @annaschwartzgallery and enveloping group weather, as weather is never experienced alone (8-9).

Nature as the whole - there is no “outside” - conjured by Sean Bailey’s paintings, industrial-organic surfaces, “sending out branches”, an “entangled forest”, “the swinging tree” (images 1-4 @dainesinger ). There’s also the giant worm swinging on the tree in Sam Peterson’s multispecies romance (images 5-6 @kingsartistrun in the excellent Other Body Knowledge curated by @janetrengove & @katie.ryan_ ), near the post-Cronulla racial phrase poems of @tiwitoo (7 @kingsartistrun ). Then ancient fossilised rain by @angelicamesiti at @annaschwartzgallery and enveloping group weather, as weather is never experienced alone (8-9).

Nature as the whole - there is no “outside” - conjured by Sean Bailey’s paintings, industrial-organic surfaces, “sending out branches”, an “entangled forest”, “the swinging tree” (images 1-4 @dainesinger ). There’s also the giant worm swinging on the tree in Sam Peterson’s multispecies romance (images 5-6 @kingsartistrun in the excellent Other Body Knowledge curated by @janetrengove & @katie.ryan_ ), near the post-Cronulla racial phrase poems of @tiwitoo (7 @kingsartistrun ). Then ancient fossilised rain by @angelicamesiti at @annaschwartzgallery and enveloping group weather, as weather is never experienced alone (8-9).

Nature as the whole - there is no “outside” - conjured by Sean Bailey’s paintings, industrial-organic surfaces, “sending out branches”, an “entangled forest”, “the swinging tree” (images 1-4 @dainesinger ). There’s also the giant worm swinging on the tree in Sam Peterson’s multispecies romance (images 5-6 @kingsartistrun in the excellent Other Body Knowledge curated by @janetrengove & @katie.ryan_ ), near the post-Cronulla racial phrase poems of @tiwitoo (7 @kingsartistrun ). Then ancient fossilised rain by @angelicamesiti at @annaschwartzgallery and enveloping group weather, as weather is never experienced alone (8-9).

Work for @un_projects ! Sharing this opportunity for the 2 day per week General Manager role in Naarm/Melbourne (or potentially remotely) - applications close this Wednesday 5pm, see unprojects.org.au for info xx

Overwhelming amount of art encountered over the last couple of weeks in Berlin and Kassel, so for now just a few cat pix as my plane takes off. Love u @ju_bavyka

Overwhelming amount of art encountered over the last couple of weeks in Berlin and Kassel, so for now just a few cat pix as my plane takes off. Love u @ju_bavyka

Overwhelming amount of art encountered over the last couple of weeks in Berlin and Kassel, so for now just a few cat pix as my plane takes off. Love u @ju_bavyka

Melbourne cold versus D and Hilary warmly introducing their issue of un magazine today. From D’s editorial text: The initial thinking behind a collection of annotated bibliographies came about from the question: ‘What texts are colleagues interacting with during lockdowns and their time in isolation? … What texts are worth taking forward into a post-lockdown future?’

I recently joined the board of Naarm/Melbourne-based @un_projects who publish un Magazine, the biannual independent contemporary art magazine for writing that emerges from art-making. From fan to fam! It’s an honour to be a part of the journey of this now 18-year-old project. I’ve also contributed an annotated bibliography to issue 16.1 edited by the wonderful D Harding and Hilary Thurlow, which is being launched in Naarm next Sat.

Diary dates!

☀️Naarm launch of issue 16.1 at @kingsartistrun on Sat 2 July 2-4 pm,
☀️Proposals for un Mag issue 16.2, again edited by @d_gnidrah and @hildiddy are due by 5pm AEST Mon 4 July (unprojects.org.au/contribute for details), &
☀️A conversation for Art Text Book Group with Hilary Thurlow and me at Bargoonga Nganjin, North Fitzroy Library on Wed 6 July 6-7:30 pm

xx

Image: screenshot of the start of my just-about-published text ‘Parable of don’t leave: the world may be study and snow, cruising utopia and the only _____ queer in the world’.

#unprojects #unmagazine

Back from VERS this weekend on Kaurna Country, an event that emerged from sporadic meetings over two years about curatorial practices and non-centred ways of knowing the world, and which manifested over two days and a particularly electric four-hour durational conversation with a group of luminous souls who answered our questions on pleasures, embodiment, kinships, fugitivity and re/organising with grace, depth and generosity. I am grateful. A vers is only vers for others xx

Pics: Friday evening talk, Brian Fuata enters a circle of seated people from the darkened back area during the discussion moderated by Frances Barrett with V Barratt and Daniel Jaber - Brian with hand raised, performing his signature mode-switching improvisation with breathtaking attunement and laugh-out-loud relational dynamics. Brian seated in circle hand again raised. Saturday afternoon, just after the intermission, performance of DILATED MIND by Archie Barry - Archie gliding on an office chair viewed from my seated position in the middle of our conversational circle, a duet with themself/selves and all the archived knowledges and experiences in the body.

Grateful to our panel @fffrancesfffrancis @archie.barry @leulieshraghi @jeffy_k #maddeeclark, wonderful speakers @btroyanthony @angebail @syntacticalchaos @simonacastricum @debris.facility #brianfuata #kyrakum-sing @10000_turns @lizmartinband @nikkisullivan26
@vero_tello @emmmwebb, excellent partners @samstagmuseum @ace.gallery.adelaide

Also 🙌🏼 for the always supportive @mumamonash team and generative things we do

Back from VERS this weekend on Kaurna Country, an event that emerged from sporadic meetings over two years about curatorial practices and non-centred ways of knowing the world, and which manifested over two days and a particularly electric four-hour durational conversation with a group of luminous souls who answered our questions on pleasures, embodiment, kinships, fugitivity and re/organising with grace, depth and generosity. I am grateful. A vers is only vers for others xx

Pics: Friday evening talk, Brian Fuata enters a circle of seated people from the darkened back area during the discussion moderated by Frances Barrett with V Barratt and Daniel Jaber - Brian with hand raised, performing his signature mode-switching improvisation with breathtaking attunement and laugh-out-loud relational dynamics. Brian seated in circle hand again raised. Saturday afternoon, just after the intermission, performance of DILATED MIND by Archie Barry - Archie gliding on an office chair viewed from my seated position in the middle of our conversational circle, a duet with themself/selves and all the archived knowledges and experiences in the body.

Grateful to our panel @fffrancesfffrancis @archie.barry @leulieshraghi @jeffy_k #maddeeclark, wonderful speakers @btroyanthony @angebail @syntacticalchaos @simonacastricum @debris.facility #brianfuata #kyrakum-sing @10000_turns @lizmartinband @nikkisullivan26
@vero_tello @emmmwebb, excellent partners @samstagmuseum @ace.gallery.adelaide

Also 🙌🏼 for the always supportive @mumamonash team and generative things we do

Back from VERS this weekend on Kaurna Country, an event that emerged from sporadic meetings over two years about curatorial practices and non-centred ways of knowing the world, and which manifested over two days and a particularly electric four-hour durational conversation with a group of luminous souls who answered our questions on pleasures, embodiment, kinships, fugitivity and re/organising with grace, depth and generosity. I am grateful. A vers is only vers for others xx

Pics: Friday evening talk, Brian Fuata enters a circle of seated people from the darkened back area during the discussion moderated by Frances Barrett with V Barratt and Daniel Jaber - Brian with hand raised, performing his signature mode-switching improvisation with breathtaking attunement and laugh-out-loud relational dynamics. Brian seated in circle hand again raised. Saturday afternoon, just after the intermission, performance of DILATED MIND by Archie Barry - Archie gliding on an office chair viewed from my seated position in the middle of our conversational circle, a duet with themself/selves and all the archived knowledges and experiences in the body.

Grateful to our panel @fffrancesfffrancis @archie.barry @leulieshraghi @jeffy_k #maddeeclark, wonderful speakers @btroyanthony @angebail @syntacticalchaos @simonacastricum @debris.facility #brianfuata #kyrakum-sing @10000_turns @lizmartinband @nikkisullivan26
@vero_tello @emmmwebb, excellent partners @samstagmuseum @ace.gallery.adelaide

Also 🙌🏼 for the always supportive @mumamonash team and generative things we do

Back from VERS this weekend on Kaurna Country, an event that emerged from sporadic meetings over two years about curatorial practices and non-centred ways of knowing the world, and which manifested over two days and a particularly electric four-hour durational conversation with a group of luminous souls who answered our questions on pleasures, embodiment, kinships, fugitivity and re/organising with grace, depth and generosity. I am grateful. A vers is only vers for others xx

Pics: Friday evening talk, Brian Fuata enters a circle of seated people from the darkened back area during the discussion moderated by Frances Barrett with V Barratt and Daniel Jaber - Brian with hand raised, performing his signature mode-switching improvisation with breathtaking attunement and laugh-out-loud relational dynamics. Brian seated in circle hand again raised. Saturday afternoon, just after the intermission, performance of DILATED MIND by Archie Barry - Archie gliding on an office chair viewed from my seated position in the middle of our conversational circle, a duet with themself/selves and all the archived knowledges and experiences in the body.

Grateful to our panel @fffrancesfffrancis @archie.barry @leulieshraghi @jeffy_k #maddeeclark, wonderful speakers @btroyanthony @angebail @syntacticalchaos @simonacastricum @debris.facility #brianfuata #kyrakum-sing @10000_turns @lizmartinband @nikkisullivan26
@vero_tello @emmmwebb, excellent partners @samstagmuseum @ace.gallery.adelaide

Also 🙌🏼 for the always supportive @mumamonash team and generative things we do

@ju_bavyka ‘s beautiful labours on exhibition in the group show Ash on until 27.03.22 at @pari_ari_ 😍

A tapestry and poetry booklet that reflect on exhaustion, burn out, survival and transformation. “The work is a weaving through and from the bedspread of fatigue as a place with revolutionary potential and quietly takes back time that was stolen by capitalism.”

“The exhibition Ash lingers on processes of grief and healing that follow devastation. Here, feelings that are often compressed or put aside — despair, fatigue, alienation, melancholy, and mourning — are slowly unfurled and released. This exhibition rests inside heavy feelings, honouring them not only as embodied responses to the neglectful systems around us, but as vital resources in generating collective action, nourishment and hope.” (Curators Hareen Johl, Naomi Segal and Tian Zhang)

In company with great works by Olivia Chin, Alannah Dair, Cynthia Florek, Emily Greenwood, Sylvia Griffin, Parramatta Female Factory Precinct Memory Project, Sofiyah Ruqayah and Linda Sok.

Images: installation of a small tapestry and booklet displayed on modified shipping pallets and a wooden folding chair. The tapestry depicts a dark red figure lying down against a pink background and hangs on one of the two pallets on a lilac coloured wall. The booklet has a brown cover and sits in a small stack on a pallet on the brown tiled floor with the chair to the left.

#Ash #HeavyFeelings #RestingWorker #TheMomentYouRealiseWhatYouDon’tHaveToBe #Pari

@ju_bavyka ‘s beautiful labours on exhibition in the group show Ash on until 27.03.22 at @pari_ari_ 😍

A tapestry and poetry booklet that reflect on exhaustion, burn out, survival and transformation. “The work is a weaving through and from the bedspread of fatigue as a place with revolutionary potential and quietly takes back time that was stolen by capitalism.”

“The exhibition Ash lingers on processes of grief and healing that follow devastation. Here, feelings that are often compressed or put aside — despair, fatigue, alienation, melancholy, and mourning — are slowly unfurled and released. This exhibition rests inside heavy feelings, honouring them not only as embodied responses to the neglectful systems around us, but as vital resources in generating collective action, nourishment and hope.” (Curators Hareen Johl, Naomi Segal and Tian Zhang)

In company with great works by Olivia Chin, Alannah Dair, Cynthia Florek, Emily Greenwood, Sylvia Griffin, Parramatta Female Factory Precinct Memory Project, Sofiyah Ruqayah and Linda Sok.

Images: installation of a small tapestry and booklet displayed on modified shipping pallets and a wooden folding chair. The tapestry depicts a dark red figure lying down against a pink background and hangs on one of the two pallets on a lilac coloured wall. The booklet has a brown cover and sits in a small stack on a pallet on the brown tiled floor with the chair to the left.

#Ash #HeavyFeelings #RestingWorker #TheMomentYouRealiseWhatYouDon’tHaveToBe #Pari

@ju_bavyka ‘s beautiful labours on exhibition in the group show Ash on until 27.03.22 at @pari_ari_ 😍

A tapestry and poetry booklet that reflect on exhaustion, burn out, survival and transformation. “The work is a weaving through and from the bedspread of fatigue as a place with revolutionary potential and quietly takes back time that was stolen by capitalism.”

“The exhibition Ash lingers on processes of grief and healing that follow devastation. Here, feelings that are often compressed or put aside — despair, fatigue, alienation, melancholy, and mourning — are slowly unfurled and released. This exhibition rests inside heavy feelings, honouring them not only as embodied responses to the neglectful systems around us, but as vital resources in generating collective action, nourishment and hope.” (Curators Hareen Johl, Naomi Segal and Tian Zhang)

In company with great works by Olivia Chin, Alannah Dair, Cynthia Florek, Emily Greenwood, Sylvia Griffin, Parramatta Female Factory Precinct Memory Project, Sofiyah Ruqayah and Linda Sok.

Images: installation of a small tapestry and booklet displayed on modified shipping pallets and a wooden folding chair. The tapestry depicts a dark red figure lying down against a pink background and hangs on one of the two pallets on a lilac coloured wall. The booklet has a brown cover and sits in a small stack on a pallet on the brown tiled floor with the chair to the left.

#Ash #HeavyFeelings #RestingWorker #TheMomentYouRealiseWhatYouDon’tHaveToBe #Pari