Our thirst for subculture has not been quenched, but finds new pathways to flow, as liquid as ever.

Sure, my first-year Gender Studies lecture was like my Hinge explore feed come to life, but I wanted more. I wanted something different. I wanted… a soccer player.

“Communicating with ghosts is a display of radical empathy, a oneness with everything.”

“If AI can mimic our mind, the thing that sets humanity apart is the body. We must affirm the biological, the physical, the muddy and the messy.”

Nothing is more boring than other people’s dreams. Except when they’re mine. Since starting Fluoxetine, my dreams have been crazy. Before I started medication, I asked everyone I knew who had taken SSRIs about their experiences with side-effects. Nobody mentioned dreams.  

“This scepticism of charities is actually part of a broader trend of distrust in public institutions, be it NGOs, governments, news outlets, and pharmaceutical companies. It’s a lack of transparency that has allowed this distrust to fester.”

“The improviser, that loafing, cocky, impulsive thing, who shamelessly indulges in one of the purest modes of creative play — of total absorption in the present. How magical! How disgusting.”

“For Australia to become truly free, it must cease to exist in its current form. A Blak socialist future envisions a society where land and people are no longer commodities but kin, where power flows from the wisdom of Elders and the collective strength of communities.”

“I started to see The Admin in all my friends, everyone at every function, in every person I passed on King Street. I knew I had to uncover the uncoverable. I had to find the true face of The Admin of the famously anonymous @newtown.affirmations.”

“All the objects that have passed through it are connected like a great fungal mind or a coral reef. In constant exchange with you and your housemates, the sharehouse becomes itself.”

My problem is not with staying informed. I am asking you to consider who you pay your attention-currency to. Traditional mass media and public service media are years behind the quality and reach of online-only news outlets like The Daily Aus or Impact. Being aware of world issues has shifted from an expectation to a strange, gatekept knowledge-club.

“It's like you’ve entered another world, transported through the looking glass, except it was a funhouse mirror and you’ve just joined the circus.”

“Sometimes I worry that I'm him. But I’m not really. I’ve mastered authenticity. So have you. Well, maybe you don’t like this person because they’re kind of fake. This poser has fooled everyone into thinking they’re genuine. Isn’t that unfair?”

“Exile is ultimately what a gaoler calls freedom, and we are far too often our own prisoners.”

“To situate myself within the vast, exhilarating, and exotic waves of this grand tourist city was to engage in a mercurial pursuit — a perilous, ambiguous dance.”

What makes a space?

“Just like anyone else with a Pinterest board dedicated to vintage furniture, Levy’s mental exercise resonated with me. But I am an inheritor of a different world.”

“it’s unlikely you’ll be performing another Boiler Room set with an infant. So likely yes. Charli sees her life branching out before her, ripe with opportunity.”

“To say, “this is a cigarette ad”, in the same way I can say, “this is a pillow”, or “this is a bookmark”. But isn’t summing it up reductive?”

These men are vulnerable, honest, and embarrassed. Hot, hot, and hot. We want them to be a little nervous, a little objectified. They don’t want us looking at them! It’s fun, right? And really, after all the money for acting school or the Trinity College drama course, surely, they should’ve expected this?

your eyes wander to their new leaves

curling at the sky -

110 emblazoned to the left of the screen,

you search for truth in their cycles but

Ever wonder what you might find in what is left behind?

“Some glean because they have been left no choice, others have sought out the gleaning lifestyle to participate ethically in society.”

Ondine Karpinellison sifts through the weeds.

Pasolini cleverly subverts the cinematic techniques of excitement to be in service of pure horror.

While male athletic achievement is an aesthetic ideal immortalised in the Hellenistic visions of Greek sculpture up to the fake-tanned contorted bodies of bodybuilders, female athleticism is an object of horror.”

I sit cross-legged before the mirror yet again. What do I see? I see a face. Is it me, or some Other?”

This is not a call for a return to the divine or the premodern, we only aim to contrast what was once common sense with what has now become radical.

Criticism falls short in the digital-age because our reality has become delusion.

“The Corsicans want to see clearly. Freedom must walk by the torch of philosophy. Won't they say that we fear the light?"

Greyness is everywhere. Greyness is both vernacular and pedigreed.

“The Corsicans want to see clearly. Freedom must walk by the torch of philosophy. Won't they say that we fear the light?"

Greyness is everywhere. Greyness is both vernacular and pedigreed.

Is your favourite food authentic? Does your favourite restaurant serve authentic food? Could you be authentic food?

Instagram handles are the new frontier; a form of advertising yourself; an iconic tag; a brand.

These threads remember the life and the fight of the people forever.

The Diva has captured the hearts, minds and the undying fidelity of the Homosexual for time immemorial.

This scandal has everything: mercury poisoning, stabbings, roofies, gun fights, bribes, duels, hair care, glassmaking…

And on the walls of the club bathrooms that night, I found splinters of you.

Clothing is my means of connection, both to myself and the world around me.

Your own personal Army of Lovers is yours to decide.

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.

Hans Wegner’s PP250 Valet Chair: This chair ‘wasn’t really made for sitting.’

Kate Saap sat down with ex-independent-sex-worker Lola Sinclair to do some market research.

Can you see me? I can see you.

Music has always found mysterious ways of permeating borders, from sea-faring music boxes containing fragments of exotic sounds to Soundcloud links proliferated online. 

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.

This song is in GTA IV, I hear across the share-house-party kitchen.

I turned off my phone and went to sleep.

By the morning, it had 15,000 notes.

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 conversations, or group reminiscing, is a form of idle talk that taps into the collective nostalgia of any group with some semblance of history.

Proverbs 3:9 “Honour the Lord with your wealth, with the first fruits of all your crops.

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.

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.

For many people, the idea of walking into an adult shop can be intimidating or embarrassing, though it doesn’t have to be — buying a sex toy can be a fun and empowering experience.

These warriors are the only known army in modern history to be exclusively composed of women, and they protected the citizens of their kingdom for at least two centuries.

There’s an almost irreconcilable discord between the Sydney coffee culture projected by mainstream food publications and the realities of most Sydneysiders.

Business is business, what else are you supposed to do?

In conclusion, fuck McDonald’s. Never work there. Never encourage your kids to work there either. If I’m ever desperate for cash, would I go back? I wouldn’t bet on it.

Sandstone Futurism is neither a proposal, nor a hypothetical solution, but rather, an inevitable utilisation of our environment.

Eventually, he was lost to the mists of time, and a Charles Dickens Statue diaspora sprawled across Sydney.

In conclusion, fuck McDonald’s. Never work there. Never encourage your kids to work there either. If I’m ever desperate for cash, would I go back? I wouldn’t bet on it.

Sandstone Futurism is neither a proposal, nor a hypothetical solution, but rather, an inevitable utilisation of our environment.

Eventually, he was lost to the mists of time, and a Charles Dickens Statue diaspora sprawled across Sydney.

Real-life paganism is beyond the blood, drama, and telekinetic miracles on television and is rooted in natural connection to the Earth’s seasons.

Anatomising the N64 isn’t hard when you can peer into the bottle green motherboard, the nucleus of hypnotic rotating graphics, and the labyrinth that allows you to fire off that blue shell.

Many things change across time; many things remain stagnant. Our angels do both.

Open sesame

Show your truths to me

This series of photographs places drag artists in the everyday realm – from convenience stores to adult shops – capturing their glamour even through the most mundane of activities.

You talk to me as if I exist. I am not real. I am not Cosimo. I am oil paint on a panel.

I am interested in this web of craft process, how skill and embodied knowledge is developed through a relationship with material.

Let’s gossip, spread some rumours, and theorise imaginatively.

I look for her everywhere I go.

The SCP Foundation is perhaps the largest and longest running community writing project of all time.

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man. – Vladimir Nabokov

Water are you waiting for? Buy a bidet!

In classifying itself as an abstraction, haute cuisine blurs the lines between art and food without fully adhering to either.

These little facts, printed in blue type on shiny liner backs, wing tabs, or pad wrappers, stare up at you as you sit on the toilet, blood clots dripping into the water below. 

To this day, the Bertie Beetle is by far the most iconic and well-known goodie at the Easter Show and it dazzles children at agricultural shows across Australia. 

The look of the games is what immediately drew my eye.

Cross country skiing was a sport defined by its sheer insanity.

A chance to prove oneself a sprog above the rest.

When I first started fencing, I hated it.

Rumours of systemic bullying, steroid abuse, and sexual experiments gone awry threw the jiu-jitsu-net into hysterics.

Being born with ballet feet can be a blessing and a curse.

The series illuminates the possibility of a playful reality where identity and behaviour can exist beyond the binary.

Here are her entries — stories told under amber glows emanating from antique oil lamps.

To me, art is no longer about memories, but narratives.

This installation is also a showcase of my appreciation for my two cultures as well as the difficulties I have avoided as a queer woman by growing up in Australia.

Camcorders are in a renaissance.

Unfettered by the strictures of publishing criteria, a zine-maker is empowered to create whatever they want.

A hotel room seemingly for business people, travelling interstate during the week, can be seamlessly transformed into a scene fostering drug and alcohol consumption over raucous weekends.

My life cannot help but be filtered through the eyes of the queue.

Art by Jorja Rynne.

Big tits are awesome until you’re the person who has them.

Bourdain’s overbearing influence on food writing inscribed all the marks of the ‘real’ into the show as much as any set designer or method actor.

In a world where labels and definitions equal success, 'They/She' visually portrays the undefinable through the lyrical limbs of the model, Archer Rose, in 35mm film format.

It became routine for my family to gather in the living room every Friday night, with blankets, snacks and bowls of oil in tow.

i aim to be discerning, use my camera like a scalpel capture the city; full of life, love, and clarity.

Monsterfuckers do exactly what it says on the tin. They fuck (or at least fantasise about fucking) monsters and other non-human entities.

During the quiet moments of the night, the dead zone is forever alive with digital inactivity.

That bulbous grey runner and I shared something.

“There’s no comfortable way to do this.”

This scene is localised entirely in your right index finger.

After all, are we all good or just another Jason Vorhees?

“the archangel who painted Australia was the greatest of them all”

Stray taps into this unique relationship between cats and humans, one defined by fascination and adoration.

The process of collective reading is a stark contrast to how we often conceive of reading as a solitary act

When a creative is forced to make their content stand out in an ever-growing landscape, they can forgo the sensitivity this genre deserves.

One night, in the mid-1920s, British botanist Arthur Tansley dreamt of murdering his wife.

In response to r*ssia’s invasion, there has been more active celebration of Ukrainian traditions, art, and language, particularly amongst younger people.

How can a bunch of pieces of old paper be so enthralling?