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Garage Talks is organised by Kate Finning, Andrew Murray, and Jean-Marc Tang.
@kfarchitect@angrew87@mrjeanmarctang
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Garage Papers is Australia's only dedicated independent architecture journal. @how_to_read_a_plan
The last party happened on a moist night, the last day of summer. You enter via the landing of timber stairs, down to the green room, or up to a living room — what was already quite a Lynchian scene now has the honourable addition of a pool table. The cabinets, green; the tablecloth, red; a speaker reaches over from an armature, and more pretty people gather to yap.
The long corridor is now lined with a row of plastic seats, like a cinema for primary schoolers to watch that scene from "In the Mood for Love" where they pass each other forever but never fuck. Textured outfits move in and out of the shadows; two guys frantically look for their earplugs under the seats.
Walk past the “fake toilets” to reach the “real toilets”: a guy in a black cape is holding onto their purple-masked face, scooting themself around. Their body repeatedly hitting the walls.
Are you in pain?
The dance floor is like a swimming pool. Liquid blue fills the air. Small groups of north-siders are picnicking on the margins. Upcycled speakers fill the tiled space with ambient vibration.
“They were quick to get rid of all those trees and grass from last night,” a goblin says to me. The Garden of Eden from Wackie Ju’s show is no longer in sight.
This is the last dance. It’s hazy, it’s bright, and the fans spin hard. The bodies around me — they’re sweaty, they’re hot, they don’t care. I survive my first mosh pit. I feel new.
Welcome and goodbye.
“RIP Altar,” the guy with a chest full of tattoos screams at us. “RIP Altar. Fuck my life.”
@altarspace.info@inkala.xyz
Images + videos:
3/ Wackie Ju' Fashion Aftershow
4/ Fairies, goblins, and creatures at Wackie Ju's Fashion Aftershow
6/ @perforgasm are you in pain?
8/ @oddh0st for @cynetic__ 's event
9/ @cristea_zhao for cynetic's event
11/ @ether_link@spirits0ng for cynetic's event
12/ @speculative.hybridity
14/ @only.fe1 for cynetic's event
15/ @r.luvell for cynetic's event
“How do buildings tell stories of our contested part? What if they were violent? What if they were loving?"
For Memo Architecture Review, Hannah Zhu looks at Nervegna Reed Architecture’s refurbishment of the Central Goldfields Gallery in Victoria, on Dja Dja Wurrung Country. Garingilang Gatjin Wii / Garden of Water and Fire was delivered with DJANDAK and DJAARA members and landscape services by 3Acres, including work by Djaara artists Sharlee Dunolly-Lee, Mick Bourke, Aunty Marilyne Nicholls, and Uncle Rick Nelson.
Images:
1 by John Gollings, permission Nervegna Reed
2 by Toby Reed
3 by John Gollings, permission Nervegna Reed
@memo_review@centralgoldfieldsartgallery@sharleedunollylee@3acresla@djandak_ddw@djadjawurrung@johngollings
Fire, Water, Building
Opening Friday 20.02 from 6pm onwards.
How to build with fire and water in a time of risk aversion?
“Fire, Water, Building” reimagines architecture’s relationship with nature, shifting from risk aversion toward a more deliberate engagement with these elemental forces. Set against the backdrop of recent environmental crises—bushfires, building fires, and floods—the exhibition examines safety-driven design paradigms and the regulatory logics that shape contemporary practice. In their place, it calls for a more nuanced, historically informed, and ecologically attuned understanding of how humans inhabit shifting environments.
Bringing together 13 practices working creatively with fire and water, the exhibition assembles projects, research, and speculative works that propose alternative ways of building, caring, and living with risk, where Fire and Water aim to be understood, negotiated, and designed with.
Contributors: @alankim.xyz@architectureassociates@watersarchitects@architect_brewkoch@avavavavava@collectiveterritories@heliotope_studio@sblastudio@ssdh.studio@mic_mahn@melbartlibrary@nmbw_architecture_studio@sibling_architecture@simulaa_
The exhibition also features work by RMIT Architecture students, alongside an extended literary library on fire and water curated by Melbourne Art Library.
With thanks to RMIT School of Architecture & Urban Design for their support.
Curators: @24nuggets@allanburrows
