Melbourne Launch of Memo, Issue 4

Grab a copy and celebrate the launch of Issue 4 of Memo magazine.

Issue 4 centres on Frankfurt-based artist Hana Earles, a defining figure in the recent history of Melbourne’s backyard gallery scene. Articles by Biz Sherbert, Gemma Topliss, Audrey Schmidt, and Douglas Maxted chart Earles’s self-aware visual language and her oscillation between the hyperlocal and the global.

Elsewhere, renowned French philosopher Catherine Malabou turns a Kantian lens on Cyril Schäublin’s film about Swiss anarchist watchmakers in Unrest (2022), while author of I Love Dick, Chris Kraus, reflects on her literary evolution on the cusp of releasing her latest novel, The Four Spent the Day Together. Leading Australian–Palestinian writer Micaela Sahhar examines media and institutional censorship of Palestine, while eminent art historian T. J. Clark’s Marxist-inflected commitment to modernity comes under review by Francis Plagne. Keith Broadfoot restages Imants Tiller’s canonical von Guérard copy, Mount Analogue, as repetition and resurrection of Australian art through the colonial sublime.

This issue includes features on Caveh Zahedi, Carol Jerrems, Rosemarie Trockel, Hany Armanious, Nora Turato, Robert Rooney, reviews from across Australia, and much more.

Hospitality generously provided by Matéo Soda, Queer Move and Heaps Normal.