In the latest un Magazine 19.2 We Swear We Saw This. Drawings about Notebooks and Notebooks about the Wor(l)ds, Marcus McKenzie offers a Perforganisation.
Contending with his penmanship in a ‘spectacle of public humiliation’ brought Marcus McKenzie to consider the ‘sticky intersection of form and content’. Not willing to leave ‘both reader and writer adrift in a gnarled forest of signs’ McKenzie committed to transcribing his now vastly improved ‘pretty friggen sick’ handwriting into journals. 🧩
On The Origins of Perforganisation, Wor(l)dbuilding, Intertextuality & Parasemics by Marcus McKenzie.
Pictured is McKenzie's performance at @artsgreaterdandy alongside @miriamlarosa@georgiaamulholland@marceescudero.g for the launch of issue 19.2 guest edited by @3azzazein 📘 Read it for yourself online or grab a copy, still available via our site! 🌐
I spend much of my time telling anyone who’ll listen that absorb(ed) is the crown jewel in the naarm arts calendar. This year is the final year and your last chance to experience the mad ambition of it. The lineup is absolutely s t a c k e d and I’m giddy to be performing alongside some of my all time fav artists. No hyperbole career highlight to have been invited to make something for this year’s event with @eek_now ; a once-off all-star MidCareerKestra of scene queens; and the elusive “JD Trance”. I don’t know what the rumours are but they’re definitely true
Thank you to all who visited Temperance Hall on Friday evening for Marcus McKenzie's work-in-progress showing, The Scrying Room (working title).
Marcus gave us his heart to break. Parasemics and perforganisation....pooofff like smoke in his kaleidoscope of false starts, twisted tongues, and vometries littered with deflated minions. Oliver's 'That's Your Funeral' reverberates in a wrangling of excess – I'll never put myself back together.
Marcus was our first of six Front Studio Residents for 2026, and today we welcome dancer and choreographer Oliver Savariego. Each artist is offered 2-months of exclusive access to Temperance Hall's front studio, culminating in a public outcome with the support of photographic documentation.
We look forward to welcoming you next time.
Photo credit: Jeff Busby
