Trend Tracking
Just as we can examine how society’s obsession with certain individuals indicates ever-changing and ever-dying social and political values, so can our study of a seemingly trivial and meaningless trend.
Undressed to Impress
Hans Wegner’s PP250 Valet Chair: This chair ‘wasn’t really made for sitting.’
Selling Sex
Kate Saap sat down with ex-independent-sex-worker Lola Sinclair to do some market research.
Music and my place in the Cloud
Music has always found mysterious ways of permeating borders, from sea-faring music boxes containing fragments of exotic sounds to Soundcloud links proliferated online.
Will Art History remember Furry Porn?
All digital work produced on the internet is fated to become kitsch, no matter the level of elegance or skill with which it is executed.
The Soundtrack Of My Childhood And Other Songs To Run Over Pedestrians To
This song is in GTA IV, I hear across the share-house-party kitchen.
What if I wanted to be a duck?
I turned off my phone and went to sleep.
By the morning, it had 15,000 notes.
Curatorial Whiplash!
Curation is experiencing a shift that I believe is well needed, a shift towards rethinking the bounds of the museum from just a place to put art on walls to a more experiential world, creating new, interactive and interdisciplinary ways to view art.
Remember when we had things to say
Remember when conversations, or group reminiscing, is a form of idle talk that taps into the collective nostalgia of any group with some semblance of history.
Ardhito Pramono on jazz, love, and making music: Touchdown Under at SXSW Sydney
“Every time I listen to music, I always get a vision of what the music video will look like, you know? [When] I make my own music, I always have ideas of how the atmosphere or vibes of the song could be extended by the visuals itself.”
Ethos: a dialogue with Amy Blue at The Other Art Fair
“I think the things that inspire me the most are definitely music and movies, queer culture. They’re things that can give more — I suppose — broad levels of inspiration, not particular people if that makes sense. I think I’m inspired by the queer community — like I literally make my work for them, that’s where most of my inspiration comes from. Just like being out on a dancefloor or at a pub with close friends, that kind of thing.”
Diana Costantini at The Other Art Fair: "My relationship with art is really just centred on my love to create."
“My relationship with art is really just centred on my love to create. I always encourage my staff and creative team to do that as well. Yes, we do this for a living, but we’re also following a brief. So, I encourage them to try and create outside of the workplace because that’s where you can actually, really explore your own creativity. I just really love it.”
“The big thing for me is it's not only the physicality of a place, but it's the people”: In conversation with Laurie Franklin at The Other Art Fair
“The big thing is if you don't believe in yourself, nobody else can and it's cliché as that is. You have to believe that you do have your own unique style. It might take a month, a year or 10 years. But you need to persist, you need to keep going.”
A parable in the Hills
Proverbs 3:9 “Honour the Lord with your wealth, with the first fruits of all your crops.
Public Space in a Private Time
What drew my attention to Acconci, however, was a small, maroon book whose pages bore his 1990 essay, ‘Public Space in a Private Time,’ to which the exhibition was titled in commemoration of.
What's the Craic?
Craic is my attempt to publish my own work, through championing Northern Irish culture. It started as a response to increasing tensions during the pandemic and through Brexit in the U.K.
Welcome to the (tragic) family, son
There is no definitive limit to our physique; it’s always “moving in and out of focus”.
A brief inquiry into chance encounters in the digital age
I realised that sometimes it's best to savour the memory of a spontaneous connection rather than holding onto people with the strings of technology.
With teeth: Why girls love vampires
Suspended between death and life, the vampire occupies a liminal space wherein typical boundaries can be blurred.