Essays/articles/talks
Reverse chronological order. Does not include books, book chapters, or article series-
Body Loss
Angela Goh
2024
exhibition review
Memo, October, Melbourne -
Cut Piece
Yoko Ono
2024
essay
Memo Magazine No.2, Melbourne -
Shrine Show
Phillipa Berry
2024
exhibition review
Memo, July, Melbourne -
Pinups
Constanze Zikos
2024
exhibition catalogue
Mackintosh Lane, London -
Yoko Ono's I Love You Earth
St.Kilda Rd., Melbourne
2024
artwork review
Memo, March, Melbourne -
Soda_Jerk
2024
introduction and Q+A sessions
for the screenings of Hello Dankness
ACMI, Melbourne -
I Am A Serious Artist
Contemporary Artists in Contemporary Hollywood
2023
essay
Memo Magazine No.1, Melbourne -
Ash Keating's Ice Floes Response
At The Above, Melbourne
2023
exhibition review
Memo, September, Melbourne -
Dumb Type's 2022: remix
ICC, Tokyo
2023
screening review
for The Wire, London (unpublished) -
Soda Jerking Pepsi
PepsiCo’s Jump In - Pepsi Moments within Soda_Jerk's Hello Dankness
2023
essay
Un-Extended, Melbourne -
Targeted
Matthew Ware’s Speedway
2023
exhibition catalogue
NAP Contemporary, Mildura -
Singing. Dying. Animating.
Özgür Kar’s Good Night
2023
exhibition catalogue
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth -
Rosslyn Piggott's Realm-peripheral scenes
Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2023
exhibition review
Memo, March, Melbourne -
CUT
Temperance Hall, Melbourne
2022
exhibition review
Memo, December, Melbourne -
Australia
2022
recipe submission
Discipline Artists' Cook Book, Discipline, Melbourne -
Music as Image
project8, Melbourne
2022
exhibition review
Memo, October, Melbourne -
Framed
SBS-TV
2022
TV series review
Memo, April, Melbourne -
Video Killed The Record Cover?
2021
essay
included in Reversing into The Future: New Wave Graphics 1977 - 1990, Rizzoli, New YorkExcerpt
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Commercial mural paintings
Melbourne Central, Latrobe St. Melbourne
2021
painting review
Memo, December, Melbourne -
3/11 Japan
Imaging Destruction
2021
Zoom slide presentation of 2018 talk
for Mutable Technologies - Tracing Changing Environments
RMIT University, Melbourne & ICC & Musashi University, Tokyo -
Refik Anadol's Quantum Memories
NGV Triennial, Melbourne
2021
exhibition review
Memo, July, Melbourne -
Grant Stevens' Fawn In The Forest
Buxton Contemporary (online), Melbourne
2020
exhibition review
Memo, November, Melbourne2021
reprinted in Memo Review 04, Perimeter Books, Melbourne -
Lewis Fiddock & Joshua Petherick's Like Weevils In The Flour
Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
2020
exhibition review
Memo, April, Melbourne2021
reprinted in Memo Review 04, Perimeter Books, Melbourne -
Nothing Has Changed
2020
invited contribution
Everything Has Changed 'pandemic blog'
unpublished by City Gallery, Wellington -
Melbourne City Square As Void
2020
outdoor/onsite talk
for the lecture series The Politics Of Public Space
Office, Melbourne
transcribed and published in The Politics Of Public Space, Volume Three, Office, Melbourne -
The Akira mural
Parco Shibuya Redevelopment, Tokyo, Japan
2019
picture piece
Frieze.com, July, London -
Haroon Mirza's Construction of an Act
ACCA, Melbourne
2021
reprinted in Memo Review 03, Perimeter Books, Melbourne2019
original exhibition review
Memo, October, Melbourne -
"...illegible..."
MADA Gallery, Melbourne
2019
exhibition review
Memo, August, Melbourne2021
reprinted in Memo Review 03, Perimeter Books, Melbourne -
Christian Thompson's Bayi Gardiya
ACMI VR-commission
2019
artwork review
Memo, May, Melbourne2021
reprinted in Memo Review 03, Perimeter Books, Melbourne -
Spiral Jetty and Swamp
in "Robert Smithson: Time Crystals"
2020
reprinted in Memo Review 02, Perimeter Books, Melbourne2018
original film review
Memo, August, Melbourne -
Eavesdropping
Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
2018
exhibition review
The Wire No.419, LondonExcerpt
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Hiromasa Ogura
Production I.G. background artist
2018
introduction and Q+A session
for the exhibition Anime Architecture
Japan Foundation, Sydney -
3/11 Japan
Imaging Destruction
2018
slide presentation
for the lecture series Nature in Japan
The Asian Art Society of Australia, Sydney -
Blank Generations
2017
unpublished slide presentation
in conjunction with the film series Lost New York
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney -
Ippon Matsu
The Miracle Pine Tree, Rikuzentakata, Japan
2017
picture piece
Frieze, No.187, London -
Art + Film
2017
live conversation
with Emile Zile for Art+Film series
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne -
Robert Rauschenberg: Among Friends
Museum of Modern Art, New York
2017
exhibition review
Wire No.405, London -
UnJapan
Kanzan Gallery, Tokyo
2017
catalogue essay
for curated exhibition
Kanzan Gallery, Tokyo -
Hyper-Feminization
2017
panel presentation
for the panel Anime & Feminism
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne -
A Brief History Of The Future
Okamoto Taro X Architecture - Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki City, Japan
2017
exhibition review
Frieze.com, London, August 2017 -
De-touchable Technologies
Between Dreams & Nightmares
2017
essay
Oberon, No.3, CopenhagenExcerpt
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Masaya Nakahara
Waiting Room, Tokyo
2017
exhibition review
The Wire No.403, London -
Particulate Cinema
Visualising Data & Posthuman Physics
2017
essay
Artlink, Vol.37 No.1, AdelaideExcerpt
-
Considering Bad Video & Poor Performance
100th Anniversary Retrospective of Nam June Paik, Watari Gallery, Tokyo
2017
exhibition review
RealTime, No.137, Sydney -
Picture Perfect Political Art
2017
reprinted essay from 2004
UN Anthology, Melbourne -
Tokyo
2016
slide talk
for the series The Grand Tour: Cities Shaped By Art
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne -
Don't Follow The Wind
Fukushima exclusion zone & Watari Gallery, Tokyo
2015
exhibition review
Frieze No.175, London -
The Reflecting Screen
How Artists Address Media
2015
catalogue essay
for the exhibition Technologism
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne -
Voiding Effects and Terrorized Language
Video & The Unreality of ISIS
2015
4-part PowerPoint presentation
Parts 1-4
Discipline lecture delivered across 2 evenings, The Wheeler Centre, Melbourne & Westspace Gallery, Melbourne
Parts 1+2
Keynote for the Artspace Finissage, Artspace, Sydney
Part 2
published in Kill Your Darlings No.23, Melbourne -
Don't Follow The Wind
Curators & critics panel discussions
2015
panel participant
Watari Museum, Tokyo -
Tokyo Art Meeting 5
Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
2015
exhibition review
Real Time No.125, Sydney -
In the wrong place at the right time
Remembering Jennifer Phipps
2014
obituary
unpublished -
Nobuya Hoki
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2014
exhibition review
Frieze No.168, London -
Frederick Wiseman's National Gallery
2014
film review
Artforum online, New York -
Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises
Politics, Engineering & Image-Making
2014
film review
Frieze online, London -
Robert Rooney
2013
panel participant
Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne -
Theoretical Drag & Textual Disco
I was a drummer in Art & Text
2013
symposium talk transcription
for Impresario: Paul Taylor, The Melbourne Years, 1981-1984
Surpluss/Monash University Press, Melbourne -
Popism & The Now
2013
unpublished talk from 1982
reprinted in Impresario: Paul Taylor, The Melbourne Years, 1981-1984
Surpllus/Monash University Press, Melbourne -
Tomoko Konoike
Distilling the Natural. Imagining the Unnatural.
2013
catalogue essay
for Tomoko Konoike solo exhibition
Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco -
I do not come from your planet.
2013
essay
in Making Worlds: Art & Science Fiction
Surpllus, Melbourne -
Tokusatsu
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
2013
exhibition review
Frieze No.152, London -
Island Nation
After The Tsunami
2012
Tokyo commentary
Frieze No.144, London -
Graphic Cinema
2011
essay
Artlines, 2011 issue 4, Brisbane -
"Artist's Statement"
2011
artist's statement
for Parallel Collisions catalogue
12th Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art, Adelaide -
More Priapic Than Haptic
Marcel Duchamp's Etant donnes
2011
catalogue review
Australian New Zealand Journal of Art, Vol.11 No.1, Brisbane -
Perilous, Pliable, Projected
Cassandra Tytler's I Warned You
2011
exhibition catalogue
for Cassandra Tytler solo exhibition
Gallery Titanik, Turku, Finland -
Ego Logos & Euclidean Cum Shots
Emile Zile's Five Production Company Logos In 3-D
2011
exhibition catalogue
for Emile Zile solo exhibition
Diane Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne -
Art & Creativity
2011
typically recalcitrant panel participant
for GOMA Talks
Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane -
Fucking (verb) People (noun)
2011
panel participant (from another planet)
for the Erotic Fan Fiction evening - Writers' Week
The Wheeler Centre, Melbourne -
The 'Atomisation' of Cultural Signage
(or, More Dumb Semiotics in Contemporary Art)
2010
commentary
National Association for the Visual Arts Quarterly, September 2010, Sydney -
Kazuna Taguchi
Silent Sirens From The Floating World
2009
catalogue essay
for Kazuna Taguchi exhibition
Void+, Tokyo -
Loving Hating Men
The Kingpin's Welcome To The Jingle
2009
catalogue essay
for the exhibition Video Swell
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney -
What Goes In, Comes Out
2009
artist talk
presented as part of Tomorrow The World
Westspace, Melbourne -
Evaporated Music 2
Voicing Satan
2009
artist talk
for the exhibition Trace Elements
Performance Space, Sydney -
Deliverer of Rants
2008
commentary
Photofile No.85, Sydney -
The Unradicality of Art
Self-centring Artists, Mediarised Crackpots & Alchemical Conductors
2008
critical response
2008 Biennale of Sydney
Column No.2, Artspace, Sydney -
The Visual Arts & Pop Music
Like a Cat Fucking A Dog
2008
unpublished talk for painful 'hip art' panel forum
Play It Loud Artists' Week - it could only be Adelaide -
Die, Warhol, Die
2007
catalogue essay
for the exhibition Andy Warhol
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane -
Andy Warhol Symposium
2007
panel participant
for the exhibition Andy Warhol
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane -
Australian Art After Andy Warhol
2007
panel participant
for the exhibition Andy Warhol
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane -
Corrupted By Depth
Gary Carsley's Scenic Root
2007
catalogue essay
for Contemporary Art Projects
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney -
A Lump of Self
Dominic Redfern
2007
catalogue essay
Westspace, Melbourne -
The Many Deaths Of Andy Warhol
2007
excerpt reprint of 1987 essay
for the catalogue to the exhibition Living Elvis
RMIT Gallery Press, Melbourne -
From Boring Video Art to Pseudo Cinema
2007
talk
for the exhibition Centre Pompidou Video Art 1965-2005
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne -
'n_scape' and 'Becoming' as Acts of Japanese Art
2007
essay
Bijutsu Techo Vol.59 No.890, Tokyo -
Prismatic Japan
Angles on Contemporary Japanese Art
2007
catalogue essay
for the exhibition RAPT! 20 Contemporary Artists From Japan
Volume 1, Japan Foundation, Tokyo -
The RAPT! symposium
a wandering wrap-up of ideas surfaced
2007
catalogue essay
for the exhibition RAPT! 20 Contemporary Artists From Japan
Volume 2, Japan Foundation, Tokyo -
Manga & Anime in Australia
2006
report
Wochi Kochi (Japan Foundation Quarterly Newsletter), Tokyo -
Drag Mash
2006
panel contribution
Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne -
Simryn Gill's Station
Singapore Biennale 2006
2006
commentary
Flash, October - Melbourne, 2006 -
Favourite Things
Edouard Detaille's Vive l'empereur (1891)
2006
commissioned by The Good Weekend, Melbourne
unpublished due to use of the word 'precum' -
Yes - Media Arts in Australia Still Sucks
2005
panel contribution
Vital Signs, Australian Centre for Moving Image, Melbourne -
Smells Like Risky Business
2005
catalogue essay
for the exhibition Risk
Kings ARI, Melbourne -
Dragging Wild Angels, Fat Hogs & Cycle Sluts Down To Hell
the King Pins' Rhapsody Happens
2006
reprinted catalogue essay from 2005
200 Gertrude St., Melbourne -
Curating Video Art 101
2005
important list
Photofile No.74, Sydney -
Dumb About Japan
Contextualizing Dumb Type's Memorandum
2005
review
Mesh No.17, Melbourne -
Dragging Wild Angels, Fat Hogs & Cycle Sluts Down To Hell
the King Pins' Rhapsody Happens
2005
catalogue essay
Artspace, Sydney -
Being There
Dominic Redfern
2005
reprinted catalogue essay
in A Short Ride In A Fast Machine, 200 Gertrude St., Melbourne2000
original catalogue essay
200 Gertrude St., Melbourne -
Legions in the Ceiling
Geoff Robinson
2004
review
UN No.2, Melbourne -
I Am Van Helsing
2004
catalogue essay
for the exhibition Escape Option
Westspace, Melbourne -
Fashion As
Body-Becoming, Post-Cloth & Inverted Gesture
2004
notes from talk
for the Intermesh forum on Fashion
Centre of Contemporary Photography, Melbourne -
The Body Malleable
The Myth of Interactivity
2004
AV presentation
for the Digit04 Conference on Design
Darling Harbour Convention Centre, Sydney
for the AGI Ideas Conference of Design
Hammer Hall, Melbourne
for the ATOM Conference
Melbourne
for the 2004 exhibition
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne -
Burnt in. Burnt out.
Phip Murray's Brace Brace
2004
catalogue essay
BUS, Melbourne & online @ ABC Strange Attractors -
Picture Perfect Political Art
2004
essay
UN, No.1, Melbourne -
The City Is A Sewer
Callum Morton
2004
reprint of catalogue essay (unedited)
More Talk About Buildings & Mood, MCA Publications, Sydney2003
original catalogue essay (edited to remove scatological references)
for the exhibition FACE UP - Contemporary Australian Art
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin -
Oooh, you're hot.
Chris Langton
2003
catalogue essay
Tolarno Gallery, Melbourne -
Rock Stars & Fag Hags - Art & Pop Music
Ugo Rondignone's It's Late ... etc.
2003
unpublished floor talk
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney -
Baby, You're The Right Kind Of Wrong
Pop Music, Cinema & Other Holes
2002
essay
Photofile No.66, Sydney -
Vinyl Fantasy
2002
essay
Gloss No.4, Melbourne -
Play With Me
Vanessa Sowerwine
2002
catalogue essay
Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne -
Door bitches, nymphoniacs, interior decorators and other curators
2001
panel presentation
for the Curatorial Lab
Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne -
Pale Glitter - Fat Sound
2001
catalogue essay
for the exhibition None More Blacker
200 Gertrude St., Melbourne -
Please Stop with the Boring Video Art
2000
commentary
Like No.9, Melbourne -
Empty
Glen Sloggett
2000
catalogue essay
Center for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne -
Re-inventing Tradition & Reverence for the Superficial
1999
panel participant
Gendai, Asian Arts Society of Australia forum, Caulfield Arts Centre, Melbourne -
Dark Plastic
The Art Of Maria Kozic
1998
profile
in Free Life With Franchise
Mambo Publications, Sydney -
Die, Trekkie, Die!
Ian Haig's Web Devolution
1998
exhibition review
Real Time No.29, Sydney -
Hope You Die Before I Get Old
1998
essay
Like No. 5, Melbourne -
Fear of the Abstract
In the Void of the Tele-Audio-Visual
1998
unpublished catalogue essay
for the exhibition Synthetics
Power Museum, Sydney -
Digital (f)Art
Four Manias
1997
catalogue essay
for the exhibition Trick Or Treat
200 Gertrude St., Melbourne -
Punk Art School
1997
panel particpant
for the exhibition Punkulture
Performing Arts Museum, Melbourne -
Manga & Anime in Australia
1997
report
Comickers No.6, Tokyo -
J'Taime Ginga Tetsudo 999
1997
programme notes
for stage musical version of Reiji Matsumoto's Galaxy Express 999
Art Sphere Galaxy Theatre, Tokyo -
Op Shop Culture
Aesthetics In Mothballs
1996
essay
Like No.1, Melbourne -
The Body Internal
1996
unpublished slide talk
Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne -
If You Read This You're A Dickhead - or - You've Got To Be Fuckin' Kidding
Infectious Humour, Affected Art & Referential Effect
1993
catalogue essay
for the exhibition Wit's End
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney -
Silent Bodies In Warhol's Cinema
1991
unpublished talk
for Warhol's Early Cinema Retrospective
State Film Theatre, Melbourne -
Post Pop Art
1990
book review
Agenda No.6, Melbourne -
Re-Generation
Robert Rooney as Pop
1990
catalogue essay
for the exhibition From The Homefront - Robert Rooney works 1953-1988
Monash University Gallery, Melbourne -
Post Punk Graphics
The Displaced Present, Perfectly Placed
1990
essay & overview
Stuffing No.3, Melbourne -
Ingrained in Grain
1990
unpublished panel presentation
Photography & Postmodernism
Centre of Contemporary Photography, Melbourne -
Comics, RAW, Topps, Kids & Dinosaurs
1989
review
Art & Text No.33, Sydney -
Comics Aged
subtitle
1989
review
Editions Review No.2, Sydney -
The Corpse Of Modernism & The Blood Of Jackson Pollock
1988
essay
Art & Australia, Sydney, Spring 1988 -
The Many Deaths Of Andy Warhol
1987
essay
Art & Australia, Spring 1987, Sydney -
Cinema's Flickering Future
International Videos in the 1987 Melbourne International Film Festival
1987
overview
Filmnews Vol.17 No.7, Sydney -
The Seventies
Questionnaire Response
1987
questionnaire response
On The Beach, No.11, Sydney -
Western Spaghetti & Spaghetti Westerns
Maria Kozic
1986
catalogue essay
Maria Kozic's Western Spaghetti
Aperto section, Venice Biennale -
Artificialism
Anything but Realism
1986
unpublished essay -
Art & Writing
1985
panel contribution
for the series Close Remarks - Placing Art & Theory
Artspace, Sydney -
Video Art
The Devil's Advocate & The Archangel Gabriel Australian Video Art
1985
catalogue essay
Newcastle On Tyne Gallery Video Art Gallery, UK -
Maria Kozic Spots The Difference
Godzilla I, II & III
1984
capsule essay
Art & Text No.11, Melbourne -
The Image-Go-Round
1984
unpublished panel presentation
The Media-Go-Round
Artists' Week, Adelaide Arts Festival, Adelaide -
Perversity
1984
unpublished paper
Futurfall Conference on Postmodernism
Power Institute, Sydney -
No Comment On Images
1984
unpublished letter exchange co-presented with Adrian Martin
Futurfall Conference on Postmodernism
Power Institute, Sydney -
Theatre is the most dead of all arts
1984
comment
ZX No.2, Sydney -
Art Dumb
1983
exhibition catalogue
The Kozic Collection
Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney -
Art & Politics
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
1983
unpublished talk
for the Forum series
Hobart School of Art, Hobart -
Gone With The Wind
1983
unpublished talk
for the forum Meaning in Contemporary Australian Art,
Power Institute, Sydney -
Popism & The Now
1982
unpublished talk
for the Forum series
Hobart School of Art, Hobart
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