Love is unique and entirely mundane
A transparent exchange afforded by three consenting partners: cash, broker, and consumer.
Curb your Tiktok Addiction
“You could be so so much MORE”, I scream internally as I get a horrifically stale Krispy Kreme for $13.
Notes on "Diva Worship"
The Diva has captured the hearts, minds and the undying fidelity of the Homosexual for time immemorial.
Hall of Mirrors
This scandal has everything: mercury poisoning, stabbings, roofies, gun fights, bribes, duels, hair care, glassmaking…
Love on bathroom walls.
And on the walls of the club bathrooms that night, I found splinters of you.
MY WARDROBE IS VERY VERY FULL BUT I CANNOT LET ANYTHING GO
Clothing is my means of connection, both to myself and the world around me.
Murky waters, murky pasts: the dark personal history of an Australian icon
The lives of these men are certainly more interesting than the movie they inspired, and perhaps a testament to the capacity for the Australian outback to swallow complicated figures whole.
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.”