By Talia Smith — 11 September, 2020
‘You’re not supposed to move the body.’ ‘The Body’, Season Five, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) I had been rewatching Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the defining show of my youth, at the same time as writing this piece. I was thirteen when it first aired in New Zealand and I became immediately obsessed. Buffy…
By June Miskell — 11 December, 2019
This text is in dialogue with Caroline Garcia and JD Reforma’s collaborative exhibition The Fullness of Time at Verge Gallery. The exhibition explores the way time is recorded in materials and language through two distinct, yet interrelated, approaches: a choreography of transliteration, oscillating between Tagalog and English (Garcia), and an accretion of gestures and distilled…
By June Miskell — 8 March, 2019
This text is in dialogue with the exhibition Do You Know This Feeling? at Firstdraft. Curated by Sebastian Henry-Jones, the exhibition featured the work of Arben Dzika, Athena Thebus, Cee Powell, Chi Tran, Cristine Brache, Frontyard, IchikawaEdward, JD Reforma and Trinh T. Minh-Ha. This text riffs off JD Reforma’s work Why should I be sad?…
By Carrie Miller — 15 February, 2019
Digital culture is often celebrated for its democratising power—the emancipatory capacity for almost anyone to produce and transmit images. At the same time, the mainstreaming of digital technologies has caused profound anxiety. There is a fear that our ability to generate endless images of ourselves in order to be ‘liked’ has fuelled an epidemic of…
By Paul Kelaita — 21 December, 2017
I used to think the Princes Highway was called the Princess Highway. I was disappointed when I found out it wasn’t. I vaguely remember having a muted argument with one of my sisters about it, incredulous at the news. It was surprising because I hadn’t given the name much thought, so had taken it as…