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IN PARIS I CONTRACT DIARRHOEA AND WE LEAVE BEFORE THE MARCH. HAPPY PRIDE.
by Sophia Walsh
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Class Warfare and Anthropo-Speed: Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor
Class warfare seems to be a
positively outdated
vocabulary. A blunt and dusty Marxist tool for social analysis, it evokes the deranged and reality-removed preachings of university unions.
by Nicolas Hausdorf
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WOUNDED CAR PARK!
Do you remember how this all started?
It was my suggestion as far as I remember. But I first thought of the idea going to house shows with you and thought, “you can just do this in the suburbs?”
by Audrey Schmidt, Arthur Schmidt
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Androgyne Idol: Notes on the Chinese Androscene
Has the Communist Party of China declared war on the androgyne?
A series of new policies were launched by the Chinese state in 2021 to combat decadent influences on the youth of the nation …
by Thomas Moran
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The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge
In
The Analytical Language of John Wilkins
, Jorge Luis Borges references a certain Chinese encyclopaedia titled the
Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge
. On some remote page within this…
by Caitlin Mason
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Spiritual Povera, Redacted Extract #2 (from Chapter Six)
Kylie is a fat lazy slug cloud, sutured together by Surgery. Kylie is Futurism (or Cubism?) or both(?) because she is a sculptural project dependent on Speed. The speed in which she can translate…
by Katherine Botten
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“I Love Michael Jackson”: Leaving the 20th Century
When Michael Jackson died on the 25th of June 2009, we were convinced that it was a publicity stunt. During his funeral service, held at the Staples Centre in L.A., we kept expecting him to emerge …
by Thomas Moran
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The Boom and Bust of Sleaze
The now infamous Miu Miu spring 2022 micro-mini skirt is said to have heralded the “return” of Y2K Paris Hilton aesthetics. But anyone hawking their wares on Depop or Facebook Marketplace …
by Audrey Schmidt
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12 poems
me again
nothing clicked til i was nearly thirty
at least i felt that way now i had jowls he barely noticed
taking photos of me in harsh light…
by Gareth Morgan
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Fucking fascists
I am looking at a Renaissance fresco on my phone. It is
The Preaching of The Antichrist
by Luca Signorelli (1500-1504), where a sinister devil is whispering commands to an uncanny Christ-like …
by Diego Ramirez
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Spiritual Povera, Redacted Extract #1 (from Chapter Five)
█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ We make music. When I play them I am trying to break free from a Static position, trauma as Creation, as the Original Painter, but …
by Katherine Botten
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As Above, So Hello: Divination, Astrology and the Age of Information
I recently discovered I was born under the malevolent star Algorab. Like most stars observable without high-powered telescopes, its name is ancient, derived from the Arabic meaning “the crow”.
by Ainslie Templeton
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The Right to Viva
“Meet Barbi, your typical suburban housewife”, a hammy voiceover intones in the trailer for Anna Biller’s film
Viva
(2007). It’s the end of the sexual revolution. Los Angeles, 1972.
by Cameron Hurst
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The State of Content in 2327
The year is 2020, 2021 or 2327. Pre 2020, Heidegger wrote on the necessity for reinvigorating the question of “Being” in metaphysics. He explicated “Being” as the most universal and emptiest of …
by Claudia Tilley
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It’s not autofiction / And it’s not fiction / It’s a song / It’s Operetic / I’m a Prima Donna / Soprano / The posts are just my songs / And they are / Not real / 2 anthything / But a mood …
by Natasha Havir Smith
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Females, or, the set of all sets
Even writing feels like complicity these days. Whacking a bit of something congealed on a plate for friends, hypothetical friends and critics isn’t so bad, but there is no escaping the knowledge …
by Luara Karlson-Carp
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xoxo Grotty Gossip Girls: Abject Australian Art
Audrey Schmidt:
So, firstly, you had to review a sprawling exhibition that had no curatorial agenda or intentional overarching theme that no one else was able to attend. In how many words again?
by Audrey Schmidt, Cameron Hurst
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Bourgeois See, Bourgeois Do: The Uncanny Valley
The Bourgeois
is Franco Moretti’s 2013 study of the bourgeois class, its sensibilities and its politics in modern European literature. The subtitle, “Between History and Literature” pretty …
by Sally Olds
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Faster, Higher, Stronger: 2020, Our Future Eternity
How do we begin to periodise a slice of time like 2020, a year in which complete cultural hegemony about which everyone was talking non-stop was finally monopolised, albeit not by world communist…
by Vincent Le
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Portsea money and blowholes
Their beach was known for its riptides and blowholes. Flanked by large headlands on the east and the west, two lifeguards sat on their tower chairs beside each other, staring ahead in silence.
by Jake S
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The ND: Love After Life
Burberry posted an advertisement on Instagram for their new Pocket Bag on 27 August captioned “A contrast of reality and fantasy”, featuring Bella Hadid as an
Irma Vep
type vampiric actress …
by Audrey Schmidt
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Today is Lover’s Day! (2020) A Play for One or More Voices
And on the last day it began to cry, forgetting that it had been acting all along. And it was only in forgetting this that it had been able to sacrifice itself to a childish god. “Thank you for …
by Thomas Moran
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Did you know that your structure is perfect, like water
The framework of a cell is what matters, the details are interchangeable. A cell capable of replication or death or benignity is capable of memory.
by Chi Tran
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Imagine
I was lying at the entrance of my mother’s house, a python wrapped around my ankles. It began to curl up towards my face. I froze. “Maybe if I pretend I’m a path instead of another animal I’ll …
by Eva Birch
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Thikra
My relationship to you is framed by memories of you. Yet it is difficult for me to remember you as you were. I want to remember you as if I didn’t know you. Perhaps this remembrance will be …
by Enad Marouf
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Report from an Unidentified Fire Tower
High in the tower, above the forest and the fields, I scour the vague terrain for fires. Always at night. Drones do it during the day. For some reason, the human touch is required after dark.
by Simon Sellars
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The Smiling Face without Laughter
The very utterance of the term Cancel Culture brings about a cringe; a contortion of the face matched only by the snarls of those who dish out cancellations with tasteless moral vigour.
by Ursula de Leeuw
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Technophilia in the Bedroom
In an 1844 essay called
The Metaphysics of Sexual Love
, Schopenhauer proposes to account for why so many poets and songwriters are inspired by love as the most powerful passion after which …
by Vincent Le
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Optical Illusions/ My Pussy/ The Cut
My grandfather loved optical illusions, M. C. Escher in particular. He kept a ready supply of prints to show me when I used to visit as a child, pulling Escher’s
Relativity
from a drawer for …
by Ainslie Templeton
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Sublime Pap Or How I learned to stop worrying and love the KAWS
I have hesitated for some time before throwing my hat into this particular ring. This ring is of course the seventh circle of Hell known to the public as the KAWS show at the NGV …
by Thomas Moran
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When are you? Leslie Cheung’s Flying Arrow
In 1894 the bubonic plague spread from its rodent reservoir via colonial trade routes, transmitting from Mainland China through Hong Kong and to the rest of the world. Over 20 million people died…
by Caitlin Mason
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Community Immunity: The Revolution Was Televised
Recently the Premier of Victoria, Daniel Andrews, repeated the somewhat tired economic ratio that casually links money to mental health. “If your rent represents more than 30 per cent of your …
by Giles Fielke
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there’s no art in heaven
Gabriella D’Costa, Vava Dudu, Hana Earles, K8 Hardy, Carmen-Sibha Keiso, Spencer Lai, Nunzio Madden, Liam Osborne, Evelyn Poggioli, Ander Rennick, Victoria Todorov, Michelle Uckotter …
by Audrey Schmidt
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The Great Mutation: Ravings from the Bedroom Bunker
There is a scene in the 1988 anime film
Akira
depicting a billboard counting down 147 days until the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, with “just cancel it!” graffitied over the top. On 28 February 2020 …
by Vincent Le
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Dying Out and Loving It: Grimes’ Rebirth of Tragedy
In
The Birth of Tragedy
, Nietzsche traces the development of art back to an untamed nature’s “Dionysian” rupture with our anthropic, “Apolline” values and ideas about what is good, true and …
by Vincent Le
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Palm Trees
“Nobody” saw it coming when Schapelle Corby dropped her collaborative single with singer-songwriter Nat Zeleny,
Palm Trees
, over the 2018 new year. As the first packaged artistic output of …
by Ainslie Templeton
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Athens is the New Berlin: documenta’s counterfeit bohemia
Amidst the Greek-government debt crisis, documenta 14 in Athens latched onto the rather reductive idea of a “legendary Greece”, birthplace of democracy and pioneer of the southern European …
by Fil Ieropoulos, Audrey Schmidt
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Records of Displacement: the echo as a beckoning artefact
If you were to apply an Anglophone conceptual frame to give an account of Lucreccia Quintanilla’s practice, you could refer to it as an inter/multi-disciplinary art practice. She dwells in …
by Lucreccia Quintanilla, Fjorn Butler
