2 Resistance events are comming up: Naarm & Tarndanya

Unlikely: Resistance (live event) #1
Saturday 16th September 11am-6pm
Where: Edinburgh Gardens Community Room, Naarm/Melbourne 

Unlikely: Resistance Screening Program #2
Wednesday 20th September 6:30pm
Where: Iris Cinema at The Mercury, Tarndanya/Adelaide

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Issue 9 call-out: Resistance

To resist is to stand one’s ground and refuse to act as one is being told one must. Or to be unruly, to break the rules, to experiment and to push the boundaries. To consider the term resistance is to engage with broader questions of power, disobedience, rebellion, refusal, and objection, to name a few. It is to be reminded of long (sometimes forgotten, sometimes ignored) histories of activism for civil and environmental rights across the world.

Proposals due 1 May 2022

Guest editors: Melody Ellis and Kim Munro

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Issue 8 Call-out: Birds & Language

This issue responds to themes presented at the Birds and Language Conference hosted by the University of Sydney, its companion exhibition at Wollongong City Gallery, and beyond. Proposals may explore bird species, mimicry, display, the bird song/call dichotomy, or non-human animal music-like practices.

Proposals Due 15 December 2021

Guest editors: Madeleine Kelly and Jen Valender

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Book Launch: Kin and we need privacy guys here too

Artists Jahnne Pasco-White and Marian Tubbs will be at STATION for an afternoon of discussion as we celebrate the release of two new titles exploring each artist’s practice.

Presented by Art Ink Publishing and VAULT Magazine

STATION, South Yarra

Sun 28 Mar, 2pm–4pm (AEST)

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Online Launch of Issue 6: Translating Ambiance

Online Seminar Monday 30 November, 2-3:30 AEDT

Unlikely editor, Norie Neumark will open the Zoom session; guest editor sound artist/scholar Jordan Lacey will introduce the issue; contributor, artist-scholar Luz María Sánchez Cardona will present her work; and theorist Nikos Papastergiadis will respond.

Register via email at cova-research@unimelb.edu.au.

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Issue 6: translating ambiance - now live

Our sixth journal issue: “Translating Ambiance” - now live.

Check it out here: “Translating Ambiance”

Guest editor: Jordan Lacey

With 19 contributors, including artists/theorists Luz-María Sánchez Cardona, Lisa Hall and Salomé Voegelin, and Catherine Clover, Translating Ambiance poses questions about how the artistic voice can help to rupture the functionalist practices of urban planners, in the pursuit of more imaginative and diversely affective cities.

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Issue 6 Call-out: Translating ambiance

In this open call, we are seeking contributions from theorists and/or practitioners grappling with issues centred around embodiment and ambiance/atmosphere, as well as those engaged with autoethnography and artistic practice -- particularly sound art and field work practices.

Deadline for abstract proposals: November 1, 2019.

Guest editor: Jordan Lacey

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Issue 7 Call-out: Following sonorous bodies

We are currently seeking writers and artists to engage with new materialisms with their promises and limitations to produce situated carnal knowledge about sonorous world(ings).

In addition to conventionally scaled texts, we are interested in gathering processual pieces which may be overlooked or not appreciated by the conventional academic scene (such as documentation of various kinds, notes for or of evolving research).

Deadline for abstract proposals: October 31, 2019 (extended deadline)
Guest editors Anastasia Khodyreva and Elina Suoyrjö (Turku, Finland)

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Book Launch: An Act of Showing: rethinking ARIs through place

Edited by Maria Miranda and Anabelle Lacroix, the book features newly commissioned essays by Paola Balla, Kirsten Lyttle and Dominic Redfern and more.

To be launched by Esther Anatolitis, Executive Director of the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA):

Tuesday 4 December at 6pm at  West Space, Level 1/225 Bourke St, Melbourne

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Issue 4: "Art & Herbarium" - now live

Our fourth journal isssue: “Art and Herabrium” - now live

Check it out here: “Art and Herbarium”

Guest editors: Tom Bristow, Jan Brueggemeier and Danielle Wyatt

Contributors: Anna Artaker, Erica Boito, Bibi Calderaro and Margaretha Haughwout (Coastal Reading Group), Danielle Clode, Bonny Cassidy, Katerie Gladdys and Anna Prizzia and Melissa Desa, Laura Eliaseh, Amanda Johnson, Emma Lansdowne, Emma Robertson, Josh Wodak

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Issue 3: "cancelled" - now live

Check it out here: "cancelled" - now live

Guest editor and exhibition curator: Maia Nichols

Exhibition venue: Eastern Bloc in Montreal, Canada
Exhibition Dates: July 28-30, 2017

Each work is a starburst, an offspring that outlasts. Ultimately one has to choose how to reach for the other side, the side made up of all the idols—those born with eyes not meant to see, ears not made to hear, a mouth not given to speak, a nose not made to smell, and hands with nothing to touch. How about the idol that has been destroyed and substituted by another, a fake, a second? ...

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Exhbition: Art & Herbarium - Creative Ecological Investigations

ART and HERBARIUM: Creative Ecological Investigations
The Art and Herbarium exhibition show works by the artists, who engaged with the Herbarium collection with imagination, sensitivity and intelligence.

Exhibition Dates: 2-16 March, 2017

Artists: Tom Bristow, Rosalind Hall, Elizabeth Hickey, Jessica Hood, Bonny Cassidy, Harry Nankin, Josh Wodak

Opening Night: 2 March, 6pm

Venue: Lab 14 Gallery, 700 Swanston St, Carlton, Vic 3053

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Cancelled: Call for Creative Works

Issue 4: Cancelled
Call for Proposals For Creative Art Works
Guest Editor: Maia Nichols

They say “[t]he time of heroes is over” [1], hoping to bury with it all forms of heroism. Certain key aspects of society are irretrievable, crossed out, eliminated. The exhibition invites artworks that consider how the fields of communication, hacking, design, architecture, activism, scientific or artistic practices produce effects through cancellation, deflection, or discretion. Works selected will be considered for how they approach the intersection between image, text and documentation, and how they address what is presented in the call.

Proposals are due March 12th 2017.

[1] Bernadette Corporation, Get rid of Yourself, 2003

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Cancelled: Call for Papers

Issue 4: Cancelled
Call for Proposals For Papers
Guest Editor: Maia Nichols

They say “[t]he time of heroes is over” [1], hoping to bury with it all forms of heroism. Certain key aspects of society are irretrievable, crossed out, eliminated. This issue invites essays that consider how the fields of communication, hacking, design, architecture, activism, scientific or artistic practices produce effects through cancellation, deflection, or discretion. Contributors are welcome to confront the tensions between strategies of objectification and tools of abstraction versus the glorification of selfhood, expressionism and the individual.

Proposals are due March 19th 2017.

[1] Bernadette Corporation, Get rid of Yourself, 2003

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Art & Herbarium: Call for Submissions

Issue 3: Art and Herbarium
Call for Submissions
Guest Editors: Danielle Wyatt and Thomas Bristow

The Art and Herbarium project is a touchstone for this journal issue in which we extend this art/science dialogue by seeking a range of critical and creative engagements with archives of natural collections.

Email by March 19th 2017, outlining your contribution (250 words) in terms of both the thematic focus, and its proposed form.

Image credit: detail, Wollemia nobilis W.G.Jones, K.D.Hill and J.M.Allen, University of Melbourne Herbarium: MELU G 113379a

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Project space is live & Nature in the Dark 2 screening

Unlikely's project space is live. The first project to be presented here is Nature in the Dark - an ongoing collaboration between the La Trobe University, Unlikely and the Victorian National Parks Association (VNPA).

We will inaugurate this new section of our website with a public screening and panel discussion of the recent edition of artist videos: Nature in the Dark 2 - as part of the Sightlines conference at RMIT in Melbourne. Please join us on the night.

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Ebook 1 is out: Re-structure Ebook

The Re-structure conference in 2014 looked at the current state of the arts, and considers alternative modes of culture and knowledge production within times of shrinking public expenditures. Featuring participants from performance, fashion, creative arts, gaming, media and community intervention, the event explores both broader sustainable strategies as well as "clever partial solutions" to cultural and knowledge production in a "post-public" sector environment.

Authors (peer reviewed): Stephen Healy, Maria Miranda, Grace McQuilten and Anthony White, Jon Hawkes, Katharine McKinnon, Vic McEwan and Joan Staples.

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Forthcoming edition: Field Work

“Fields”: arenas for action; social discourses; professional areas of practice; knowledge disciplines.

This issue of Unlikely explores creative practice beyond the studio. What opportunities for the creation of new knowledge are “out there, in the field”? What new methods for artmaking are born when artists venture outside the art world - or indeed, take the artworld itself as field? How do documentation, reportage, and writing help make field work visible and intelligible? How do artworks define their own fields?

Deadline: 31 October 2015
Proposals: 30 June 2015

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