un Magazine 10.2 launch – Sydney

Join 4A partner un Magazine for the launch of issue 10.2.

RSVPs required, and drinks available by donation.

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Join us to celebrate the launch of un Magazine issue 10.2, and the launch of the special-edition un Anthology: Melbourne Art & Writing (2004 – 2014), a 10-year retrospective of un Magazine.

UN MAGAZINE ISSUE 10.2

Edited by Shelley McSpedden, with Sub-Editor Alana Hunt, issue 10.2 explores configurations of contemporary coexistence, social connections, and community.

Featured artists and writers: Nikos Pantazopoulos, Virginia Fraser, Elvis Richardson, Raafat Ishak, Ross Coulter, Tom Civil, Sam Wallman, Phuong Ngo, Laura Castgnini, Rose Gibbs, Tristen Harwood, Tiarney Miekus, Zanny Begg, Pedro de Almeida, Sumugan Sivanesan, Elise Routledge, Luke Letourneau, Anusha Kenny, Michelle James, Lauren Burrow, Georgina Griddle, Matthew Taft, Julian R. Murphy, Georgia Robenstone, Anna Dunnill, Nick Terrell, Nathan Gray, Nick Modrzewski.

UN ANTHOLOGY: MELBOURNE ART & WRITING (2004 – 2014)

un Anthology is a critical and celebratory review of Australia’s popular free bi-annual contemporary art magazine, with articles, essays, artist pages, and reviews selected from a decade of publishing, as well as special commissions from Kelly Fliedner, Anthony Gardner, Justin Clemens, Bianca Hester and Lisa Radford.

The un Anthology will be for sale at the launch, and on the un Projects website.

Brian Fuata, Untitled (ghost machinery refit / letting go of the sheet – a possible addition to a program of events), Chisenhale Gallery, London, 2015. Photo: courtesy the artist.

To mark the launch of un Magazine 10.2, un Projects and 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art present a performance by Brian Fuata, Hot Topic.

Taking in the architectural spaces of 4A’s unique nineteenth-century heritage building, Brian Fuata’s site-responsive work centres on formal and conceptual frames for the act of writing, specifically the object of the white page. Long used as the ultimate visual metaphor – at once signaling the birth of creation and the death of ideas, and indeed the author – the white page is pulled apart by Fuata in an embodied testing and teasing of its historical and cultural significance as both site and object for the production of narratives.

Through a soft queer and post-colonial lens, Hot Topic demonstrates how the dominant culture of this particular object, commonly valued over the ephemeral and intangible acts of the reading and speaking of words, is articulated upon the body and in space. In a series of structured 20-minute improvisations, Fuata comically employs the image of the ghost in a conjuring of open discussion with audiences in the round that implicitly and explicity demonstrates the structure and content of the artist’s improvising. Experienced and embodied Hot Topic is an act of inscription that record the utterances and gestural fabrication of the performance itself.

The artist will enter and re-enter the space with the following items:

• a pile of A1 or A2 white sheets of paper
• white tape
• his laptop
• a microphone
• some kind of light source
• his phone to record sound and moving image
• a notebook and pencil
• a queen sized white bed sheet.

Brian Fuata’s (b. 1978, Wellington, NZ) practice is characterised by an improvisational and interdisciplinary approach to performance. He uses a range of sites for his work including theatres, galleries, mobile phone text messages and email. Fuata has been curated in exhibitions and is a recipient of new work commissions that include: Tarrawarra Biennial (2016); The Physics Room, Christchurch (2016); Performa, New York (2015); The Poetry Project, New York (2015); UnionDocs, New York (2015); Chisenhale Gallery, London (2015), Carriageworks, Sydney (2015); ACCA, Melbourne (2014) and MCA, Sydney (2013). He is also part of Wrong Solo with Agatha Gothe-Snape formed in 2009.

Presented by: un Magazine