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LUX ETERNA AND TRAVIS DE VRIES

'The Architecture of Play'

Drawing on their experiences in Utp’s ALWAYS: Call and Response residency, Lux Eterna and Travis de Vries reflect on the nexus between games, ritual, and creative exchange, as well as the role of artists and artmaking in the contemporary polis.

Radical Accessibility essays

What have we learnt about equality and justice or the lack-there-of in recent years? What have we learnt about access?

In partnership with Sydney Review of Books, Utp is commissioning a series of essays over three years. We have asked some of Australia's most progressive thinkers some of the big questions that keep us up at night in order to take responsibility for the future we are co-creating.

SHEILA NGOC PHAM

'Western Sydney is dead, long live Western Sydney'

To get to what Western Sydney means now, we need to begin in the past, like what happens when two Sheilas meet on stolen land.

Listen to a podcast version below.

RIANA HEAD-TOUSSAINT

'The R Word'

When it comes to access, everyone is becoming ~Radical~ these days. I’ve noticed.

The term is getting bandied about quite a bit...

PAULA ABOOD AND SAFDAR AHMED

'Anxious Caring'

A graphic essay by Paula Abood with illustrations by Safdar Ahmed. Anxious Caring is apoignant look into the lives of women at the Community Refuge Welcome Centre that asks the question, how does the practice of love and anxious care inform our community cultural work?

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This project is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW, through project funding.