Border_Radio Presentation by Sisters Akousmatica 3.00 pm Saturday 3 December ------------------------------ Radio Waves +Concepts in partnership with Bus Projects ------------------------------ Register through Eventbrite in @andconcepts bio ------------------------------ Sisters Akousmatica present Border_Radio, a conceptual and conversational enquiry about ownership of the airwaves in three acts: Phonic atolls ~  Spectrum Auction ~ Decolonising Wavelengths. Border_Radio was first commissioned by Pali Meursault for Shaping the æther at Espace Multimedia Gantner, France ------------------------------ nipaluna/Hobart based radio queens Sisters Akousmatica promote expanded radio projects that explore the radical possibilities of transmission since 2016. They create projects concerned with collective, feminist radio practices and auditory-spatial exploration. radioqueens.art ------------------------------ Image: Sisters Akousmatica, Brum Brum, 2021. Photo: Mary Shannon/Junction Arts Festival. ------------------------------ We would like to acknowledge the Wurundjeri and Bunurong peoples of the Kulin Nation as the traditional owners of the land on which our series takes place (Narrm). We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sovereignty, and pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging. ------------------------------ +Concepts is supported by RMIT’s School of Architecture & Urban Design and each of our event partners. +Concepts is produced by Future Tense. ------------------------------ @radioqueens @busprojects @andconcepts @_futuretense_ @jan.van.schaik

Due to the situation with floods, the event is now online What I Wish I’d Told You Presentation by Claire Bridge and Chelle Destefano ------------------------------ 10.00 am Monday 7 November  ------------------------------ Resistance +Concepts in partnership with Benalla Art Gallery ------------------------------ ONLINE EVENT (Register through Eventbrite in bio) ------------------------------ What I Wish I’d Told You, centres Deaf voices, identity, language and culture. Auslan storytellers affirm Deaf experiences and complex identities, in an immersive exhibition of large-scale video projections, which bring visitors into a Deaf world. Claire Bridge and Chelle Destefano consider themes of Deaf culture, Deaf pride and decolonising audism. The artists discuss critical approaches to embedding social justice concerns into exhibition design and curatorial custodianship. “In Auslan, we pass stories from hand to hand. Our stories cannot be put on a page, detached from us. Our signed stories carry culture. They are a site of resistance and pride.” Chelle Destefano Access: Auslan/ English interpreters ------------------------------ Image: Claire Bridge and Chelle Destefano, What I Wish I’d Told You, 2022, multi-channel video projection, audio and open animated captions, steel, polystyrene, aluminum, front/rear projection fabric, 254 x 860 cm (dimensions variable) with: (left) Haley Martin (Worimi and Dunghutti), Too Loud, voiced by Claire Bridge, duration 2:24 min and (right) Walter Kadiki, Story of a Deaf Mute, voiced by Marc Ethan, duration 4:57 min, installation view. ------------------------------ We would like to acknowledge the Wurundjeri and Bunurong peoples of the Kulin Nation as the traditional owners of the land on which our series takes place (Narrm). We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sovereignty, and pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging. ------------------------------ +Concepts is supported by RMIT’s School of Architecture & Urban Design and each of our event partners. +Concepts is produced by Future Tense. ------------------------------ @benallaartgallery   @clairebridge   @chelle_destefano  @andconcepts  @_futuretense_

What I Wish I’d Told You Presentation by Claire Bridge and Chelle Destefano ------------------------------ 10.00 am Monday 7 November  ------------------------------ Resistance +Concepts in partnership with Benalla Art Gallery ------------------------------ Register through Eventbrite in bio ------------------------------ What I Wish I’d Told You, centres Deaf voices, identity, language and culture. Auslan storytellers affirm Deaf experiences and complex identities, in an immersive exhibition of large-scale video projections, which bring visitors into a Deaf world. Claire Bridge and Chelle Destefano consider themes of Deaf culture, Deaf pride and decolonising audism. The artists discuss critical approaches to embedding social justice concerns into exhibition design and curatorial custodianship. “In Auslan, we pass stories from hand to hand. Our stories cannot be put on a page, detached from us. Our signed stories carry culture. They are a site of resistance and pride.” Chelle Destefano Access: Auslan/ English interpreters ------------------------------ Image: Claire Bridge and Chelle Destefano, What I Wish I’d Told You, 2022, multi-channel video projection, audio and open animated captions, steel, polystyrene, aluminum, front/rear projection fabric, 254 x 860 cm (dimensions variable) with: (left) Haley Martin (Worimi and Dunghutti), Too Loud, voiced by Claire Bridge, duration 2:24 min and (right) Walter Kadiki, Story of a Deaf Mute, voiced by Marc Ethan, duration 4:57 min, installation view. ------------------------------ We would like to acknowledge the Wurundjeri and Bunurong peoples of the Kulin Nation as the traditional owners of the land on which our series takes place (Narrm). We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sovereignty, and pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging. ------------------------------ +Concepts is supported by RMIT’s School of Architecture & Urban Design and each of our event partners. +Concepts is produced by Future Tense. ------------------------------ @benallaartgallery   @clairebridge   @chelle_destefano @andconcepts @_futuretense_

Histories of Pauline Pantsdown A talk by Simon Hunt 5.00 pm Saturday 22 October ------------------------------ Politics+Concepts in partnership with ACCA and 99% Gallery ------------------------------ Free (Register through Eventbrite, link in @andconcepts bio) ------------------------------ In 1998, Simon Hunt’s satirical character Pauline Pantsdown countered the race-based politics of Pauline Hanson with audio cutup & performance, resulting in one banned song, one Top Ten hit, and a run for the Senate. 15 years later he revived the character on social media, utilising humour and visual memes to activate others in mass pranks and online/offline activism. This talk will examine political engagement across ever-changing media landscapes. ------------------------------ Simon Hunt is an artist & activist who has utilised music, performance & video across a range of creative projects. In the 1990s he enjoyed international success as a filmmaker, composer & sound designer, and lectured in Media Arts at UNSW from 1990-2020. He is best known for his satirical political character “Pauline Pantsdown”. ------------------------------ Image: Collage by Simon Hunt. Pantsdown photo: Troy Coburn. The other photo was an official One Nation poster in 1998 ------------------------------ We would like to acknowledge the Wurundjeri and Bunurong peoples of the Kulin Nation as the traditional owners of the land on which our series takes place (Narrm). We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sovereignty, and pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging. ------------------------------ +Concepts is supported by RMIT’s School of Architecture & Urban Design and each of our event partners. +Concepts is produced by Future Tense. ------------------------------ @acca_melbourne  @99percent.gallery  @andconcepts  @_futuretense_  @jan.van.schaik

UnKnowing Madness  A performance by Thembi Soddell 4.00 pm Saturday 8 October ------------------------------ Performance +Concepts in partnership with RMIT Design Hub ------------------------------ Free (Register through Eventbrite in bio) ------------------------------ This concert will present a new sound composition by sound artist Thembi Soddell made in collaboration with Amrita Dasvarma, Melis Layik, Kim Le and Hassaan Memon. This composition is being created through a workshop series called UnKnowing Madness, which has been designed in consultation with vocal artist Alice Hui-Sheng Chang and media and performance artist Vanessa Godden to invite people with lived experience of complex trauma into Soddell's process of composing. This process involves exploring the indescribable felt senses that live in the body-mind following trauma through sound-making with objects and voice, combined with reflective listening techniques. The workshops are taking place from August through to October 2022 and are an experiment in exploring non-verbal ways of understanding trauma through abstract sound. ------------------------------ Thembi Soddell (they/them) is a sound artist, composer and practice-based researcher who specialises in representing and understanding lived experiences of trauma and madness through the intangibility of abstract sound. ------------------------------ FRAGRANCE FREE EVENT Please do not wear fragrance (cologne, perfume, essential oils etc) to the event in consideration of those with multiple chemical sensitivities – including the artist. ------------------------------ We would like to acknowledge the Wurundjeri and Bunurong peoples of the Kulin Nation as the traditional owners of the land on which our series takes place (Narrm). We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sovereignty, and pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging. ------------------------------ +Concepts is supported by RMIT’s School of Architecture & Urban Design and each of our event partners. +Concepts is produced by Future Tense. ------------------------------ @rmitdesignhub @thembisoddell @andconcepts @_futuretense_

UnKnowing Madness  A performance by Thembi Soddell 4.00 pm Saturday 8 October ------------------------------ Performance +Concepts in partnership with RMIT Design Hub ------------------------------ Free (Register through Eventbrite in bio) ------------------------------ This concert will present a new sound composition by sound artist Thembi Soddell made in collaboration with Amrita Dasvarma, Melis Layik, Kim Le and Hassaan Memon. This composition is being created through a workshop series called UnKnowing Madness, which has been designed in consultation with vocal artist Alice Hui-Sheng Chang and media and performance artist Vanessa Godden to invite people with lived experience of complex trauma into Soddell's process of composing. This process involves exploring the indescribable felt senses that live in the body-mind following trauma through sound-making with objects and voice, combined with reflective listening techniques. The workshops are taking place from August through to October 2022 and are an experiment in exploring non-verbal ways of understanding trauma through abstract sound. ------------------------------ Thembi Soddell (they/them) is a sound artist, composer and practice-based researcher who specialises in representing and understanding lived experiences of trauma and madness through the intangibility of abstract sound. ------------------------------ FRAGRANCE FREE EVENT Please do not wear fragrance (cologne, perfume, essential oils etc) to the event in consideration of those with multiple chemical sensitivities – including the artist. ------------------------------ We would like to acknowledge the Wurundjeri and Bunurong peoples of the Kulin Nation as the traditional owners of the land on which our series takes place (Narrm). We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sovereignty, and pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging. ------------------------------ +Concepts is supported by RMIT’s School of Architecture & Urban Design and each of our event partners. +Concepts is produced by Future Tense. ------------------------------ @rmitdesignhub @thembisoddell @andconcepts @_futuretense_

Black Girlhood Dark Matter Imaginations by Maxime Banks 3:00 pm Sunday 11 September ------------------------------ Film +Concepts in partnership with Siteworks ------------------------------ $10 ($5 Concession) ticket from our website. Link in @andconcepts bio ------------------------------ A Black girl created the Universe imagining it into existence. Metaphor of dark matter / black hole formations in how Black girlhood is most luminous entity in the Universe. Quasars. Black girl imagination as resistance intersecting astrophysics. Black girl experimental ontopoetics as knowing. Disrupting constellation cartographies of endarkened Black womanist epistemology. ------------------------------ Maxime Banks artist, writer, time-traveller of Black American diaspora Chicago Mississippi roots. Creating cosmos imaginary Autoethnographic Afronaut Anatomy Archives. Current 2022 Wisconsin Triennial #MadisonMuseumOfContemporaryArt, USA. Co-curator INCANTATION Twosixty February2022. The Silver Lioness: A Philosophy Of The Universe, solo theatrical debut at La Mama Theatre December2021. Founder of Cosmic Cornbread Publishing. ------------------------------ We would like to acknowledge the Wurundjeri and Bunurong peoples of the Kulin Nation as the traditional owners of the land on which our series takes place (Narrm). We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sovereignty, and pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging. ------------------------------ +Concepts is a lecture and performance series exploring the insights practitioners have into their own creative and cultural practices. It provides an opportunity to explore these insights in a public forum in a mode consistent with their practice. Contributors include practitioners for whom the written form is their primary professional output and practitioners whose work manifests as exhibitions or events within the domain of contemporary art ------------------------------ +Concepts is supported by RMIT’s School of Architecture & Urban Design and each of our event partners. +Concepts is produced by Future Tense. ------------------------------ @maxime.art.design @siteworks_ @andconcepts @_futuretense_

WRITING & CONCEPTS has changed its name to +Concepts. We pronounce it 'And Concepts' (we like the way the plus sign looks – we'll explain why below). We have always been about more than writing. To reflect this, we’ve adopted the +Concepts name. This allows us to better reflect our presenters and partners’ broad and varied interests. What stays the same is our drive to understand the concepts underpinning creative practice in all its forms. We’ve also given ourselves a makeover with the help of the talented folk at Hours After. Our new website andconcepts.com.au has all the information on upcoming talks, our extensive archive, and details for how to get involved. We hope you like the changes.

Writing & Concepts and ACCA present: Mykaela Saunders’ lecture ‘THIS ALL COME BACK NOW: the collective making of a blackfella speculative fiction anthology’
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THIS ALL COME BACK NOW is the world’s first anthology of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander speculative fiction – written, curated, edited and designed by blackfellas, for blackfellas and about blackfellas. In these stories, ‘this all come back’: all those things that have been taken from us, that we collectively mourn the loss of, or attempt to recover and revive, as well as those that we thought we’d gotten rid of, that are always returning to haunt and hound us. This critically acclaimed anthology was a collective undertaking, and editor Mykaela Saunders will discuss how she worked with others at each different stage of the project. From the first conception of the anthology through to publication and beyond, Mykaela has ensured that the project has been built from good relationality – the very stuff that all healthy communities are made of. -----------------------------------------------------------
6:00 pm Thursday 4 August
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Register through Eventbrite. Link in @writingandconcepts bio
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Mykaela Saunders is an award-winning Koori and Lebanese writer, teacher and community researcher, and the editor of the critically acclaimed THIS ALL COME BACK NOW, the world’s first anthology of blackfella speculative fiction (UQP).  ----------------------------------------------------------- This all come back now book cover (2022) by Nungala Creative ----------------------------------------------------------- @this_all_come_back_now @acca_melbourne @writingandconcepts @_futuretense_

Gertrude Contemporary and Writing & Concepts present: Lilian Steiner’s lecture ‘Dance Becomes Her’
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The dancing body is not one that grows solo. It feeds off those around it, consciously and subconsciously, in a pinpoint moment in time and across expanded duration. Both through and without language, learnings accumulate within the body, within the spaces it occupies and in the archive of memory. ...and the dancing body is a tool acquired by Dance itself. Dance wears us, like a costume. 
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3:00 pm Saturday 25 June
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Tickets via the @writingandconcepts website. Link in bio. 
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Lilian Steiner is a dancer and choreographer from Naarm/Melbourne, whose practice champions the deep intelligence of the body and its unique ability to reveal and comment on the complexities of contemporary humanity.
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Image: Siren Dance (2022) Photo by Gregory Lorenzutti
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@liliangrace @gertrudecontemporary @writingandconcepts @_futuretense_

ACMI + RMIT Audience Lab: Writing & Concepts – Liang Luscombe
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In partnership with RMIT and ACMI
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In this lively lecture/performance, director and visual artist Liang Luscombe will discuss how her practice as a visual artist and sculptor informs her process of writing and directing for the screen, whilst showcasing her new work Malamadre . Malamadre, a humorous work of science fiction and puppetry, follows two friends Fran and So. After escaping the clutches of Earth, the pair travel to an intergalactic tax haven, HOWL, for exhausted women. Upon arrival each human is assigned a praying mantis-like creature or Hexapoda which initiates a symbiotic relationship. The Hexapoda attaches itself to the host’s abdomen, like a child, where it feeds off toxicity that enters the human’s bloodstream from HOWL’s air. 
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1:00 pm Saturday 18 June
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Register through ACMI (link in bio)
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Liang Luscombe’s practice encompasses painting, sculpture, and moving image that engages in a process of generative questioning of how images and film affect audiences. She received her MFA at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA. She has been included in screenings at Liquid Architecture, Melbourne; AceOPEN, Adelaide; MetroArts, Brisbane; OpenTV, Chicago; Comfort Station, Chicago; and Vehicle, NYC. She has undertaken residencies at Chicago Artist Coalition’s HATCH residency program, Chicago, 2019; SOMA Summer, Mexico City, 2018; Australia Council Studio, British School at Rome, 2013; and Perth Institute of Contemporary Art Studio Residency, Perth, 2011.
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Image: Malamadre (2022) Liang Luscombe
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@liang_xlxo @acmionline @writingandconcepts @_futuretense_

Sofi Basseghi presents ‘The Road to Paeridaeza’
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In partnership with Counihan Gallery
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Sofi is a fellow at the State Library of Victoria, where she is researching the Persian roots of the word ‘paradise’ in her project The Road to Pairidaeza. Her fellowship involves studying the 16th century manuscript copy of Nizami Ganjavi’s Khamsa(Quintet), which is in the State Library of Victoria collection. Sofi Basseghi’s presentation resonates with the Counihan Gallery’s current exhibitions: Yeki Bood, Yeki Nabood, Means Without End and The Sky After Rain.
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3:00 pm Saturday 28 May
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Register through Eventbrite. Link in @writingandconcepts bio}
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100% of ticket sales go towards artists’ fees
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Sofi’s practice-led PhD research explores the social impacts of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. She pays particular attention to the impacts on women born during the Iran/Iraq war (1980-88). Through her video installations, which combine documentary and narrative film, Sofi presents a window into the lives of Iranian women. Some women have migrated to Australia, and some still live in Iran. In Sofi’s collaborative work, their lived experiences morph into imagined narratives informed by Persian poetry and folklore.
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Image: Elysium 2021, 3 Channel Video Installation by Sofi Basseghi and Installation documentation photography by Sarah Walker 2021.
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@sofibasseghi @counihangallery @writingandconcepts @_futuretense_