Note: Registrations open 10am Friday 29 May 2026. Everyone is welcome but space is limited—prompt registration is essential.
Join us at the IMA for Essay Club 4 with Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer. We’ll discuss ‘The Vulgar Image’, an essay by Dean Kissick published in Spike Magazine‘s Summer 2025 issue. The essay unpacks the proliferation of AI-slop to ask whether we are chasing machines into a pastiche hell.
Aloisio-Shearer will discuss his work as Assistant Director Programs at the IMA, as well as his projects as a curator and artist.
Join us for pizza and drinks.
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Reading group, meets salon, meets networking drinks. Join us at the IMA for Essay Club. Whether you’re a university student, emerging arts worker, artist, or someone who thinks critically about culture, there’s space at the table. Each session, our well-read friends from the neighbourhood will select a text that’s shaping their ideas, conversations, and approaches to contemporary art practice. We dig into the ideas together, with a focus on how global conversations might 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).
