Applications are now open for Reading Matter, a workshop series exploring publishing as a critical and artistic practice, framing “reading” as an interpretive activity that can expose and reconfigure the narratives embedded in institutional environments. The university is approached not as a neutral site of knowledge but as a constructed text that is authored through signage, architecture, regulations, flows of people, spatial arrangements, etc. These aspects stage certain narratives, conceal others, and imply meaning not just through their content but via their form and delivery.

Participants will engage with the surrounding and contextual conditions of GPG, drawing on what they encounter to produce imaginative interpretations of the site. Each student will produce a zine, which will in turn be published as part of a larger compendium gathering collective readings of the site.

Adam Cruickshank is an artist, writer, and graphic designer who employs design competencies in art spaces. Primarily he works with ideas around publishing, typographic form and collaboration. He has exhibited at numerous galleries in Australia and overseas, including *Lives and Works (sic)*, a recent project at Blindside. Cruickshank is a Lecturer in RMIT’s School of Design and he organises the independent imprint True Belief.

Reading Matter is the 2025 iteration of BLOP BLOP BLOP, an annual GPG series, engaged with experimental curatorial practice. BLOP BLOP BLOP takes direct inspiration from blip blip blip, a curatorial programme founded in Leeds UK, committed to examining and fostering relationships between contemporary art practice and art education.

APPLICATIONS CLOSED

KEY DATES

Applications Close
Monday 25 August, midnight
Successful Applicants Notified
Friday 29 August

Workshop One
Monday 8 September, 1-3PM
Workshop Two
Monday 15 September, 1-2.30PM
Workshop Three
Monday 22 September, 1-2.30PM

Taking place in the Arts Lab, Level 1, Building 159, Arts & Cultural

Please reach out to chantelle.mitchell@union.unimelb.edu.au with any questions.