Mark Romei

Process work from Studio C this semester at students’ presentation at Charcoal Lane @msdsocial

Some documentation of my PhD examination exhibition: “Architectural Witnessing.” @monashada @monasharchitecture 📷 Andrew Curtis

Thank you to everyone who came along to @tonyskup ’s and my PhD exhibitions opening last week! Photos by @laing.damien

Part of my upcoming PhD exhibition, “Architectural Witnessing: Revealing the Spatial Redaction of Australia’s Grey Network of Hotel Detention.” I’ll be presenting my examination presentation at 11am this Thursday, in the MADA gallery for all those who wish to join

After four years of work, @tonyskup and I are both presenting our end of PhD examination exhibitions next week. Please join us for the opening on the 30th of October, from 5-7pm, at the MADA Gallery, @monashada

Process moulds

Immobilities @threefivefivethree open again this week, Thursday - Saturday, 11am-3pm

Very excited to share the upcoming exhibition I’ve been working to put together with OFFICE @___office , Jack Isles, and U-P @u____p . Showing at 3553 @threefivefivethree , Immobilities brings together work by: • Border Forensics @borderforensics • Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne • Forensis @counterinvestigations • INDEX @index.ngo • LIMINAL @liminal_laboratory • Manus Recording Project Collective • The Investigative Commons • Mark Romei “Across the world, both architectures and environments are mobilised to monitor and control the movement of bodies and communities. Central to this practice is the immobilisation of people on the move, and an endeavour to dictate who holds the right to mobility, and how. From borders, walls, rooms, ecologies and soundscapes, Immobilities reflects on the numerous ways through which nation states design and perpetuate systems of border control, shaping the global mobility regime and the lives of those within it. The exhibition convenes an international consortium of researchers, designers and activists, situating international and Australian research within a transcontinental analysis of border practices. In turn, documenting and denouncing bordering in its many forms, across numerous geographies, technologies and methodologies.” Please join us for the opening, Friday 5th September, 6pm-9pm. This exhibition is generously supported by Monash Art, Design & Architecture, OFFICE, and U-P.

Upcoming Masters studio this semester at @monasharchitecture . The studio investigates Woomera, a remote town in South Australia built in 1947 to support the ongoing military testing site in the surrounding landscape. It later became the site of one of the large onshore detention centres operating in the early 2000s. Through group research, counter-mapping, and the construction of visual archives, students will critically document Woomeras spatial landscape. From this material, students will present an alternative imaginary, drawing from traditions of speculative architecture, to develop projects which can narrate and reframe the sites history, while also suggesting alternative futures for this landscape.

Testing the display of part of a recent freedom of information request I received back on locations of detention infrastructure in Australia. The document was entirely redacted, yet reveals the scope of the network through the 15 page document.

Just received a copy of Instituting Worlds: Architecture and Islands, which I wrote a chapter for, and has just been published! Edited by the amazing Catharina Gabrielsson and Marko Jobst, I feel really honoured to have my work alongside so many interesting researchers.

Process work testing of 3D printing a detention hotel to explore the building as a spatial redaction. Test print in translucent black resin on a light box.