Note: Registrations open 6pm Thursday 25 June. Everyone is welcome but space is limited—prompt registration is essential.

Join us at the IMA for Essay Club no. 6 with Holly Anderson. We’ll discuss ‘Viscosity’, a chapter from Timothy Morton’s book Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (2013). The chapter unpacks Morton’s concept of ‘hyperobjects’—things that are massively distributed in time and space relative to humans, for example climate change, a black hole, the sum total of all uranium on Earth, or a long-lasting human-made product like Styrofoam. In this session, we will discuss viscosity as a quality of hyperobjects, their ability to ‘stick’ to beings involved with them. We will also discuss how hyperobjects change perception, contemporary art, and experience. Anderson is a painter whose work explores the limits of visual perception and the optical experience of sunlight. She’ll discuss her interpretation of Morton’s Hyperobjects in relation to her work. Join us for pizza and drinks.

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Reading group, meets salon, meets networking drinks. Whether you’re a university student, emerging arts worker, artist, or just someone who thinks critically about art and culture, there’s space at the table. For each session of Essay Club, one of our well-read neighbourhood friends selects a text that’s shaping their thinking, conversations, and approaches to contemporary art. We dig into the ideas together, with a focus on how global conversations translate locally. Essay Club hosts for 2026 include Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer (Institute of Modern Art), Holly Anderson (artist), Madeline Brewer (Institute of Modern Art), Elena Dias-Jayasinha (Museum of Brisbane), Holly Eddington (Milani Gallery), Jocelyn Flynn (UQ Art Museum), Tay Haggarty (Outer Space), Llewellyn Millhouse (Wreckers Artspace), and Holly Riding (State Library of Queensland).