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Firstdraft is where the future of contemporary art emerges, through a program that champions experimentation, risk and inclusion.
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ur headlights lick my limbs and pupils wide i will gy-rate for u 5 stars think u might run me down but maybe u just Watch and stare a while cause when those panels finally wrap around me i bend on my will Try kiss me up again
Hard Drive Soft Core / Wetware Utopias slips between flesh and machine, following the trans body through glitches, feedback loops and unruly technologies. Using video synthesis, sound, performance and installation, the exhibition explores queer and neurodivergent ways of learning, desiring and becoming. What strange knowledges emerge in refusing to function “correctly”?
This body of work is an offering of slow, relational art. It is an invitation to sit in the in-between, to allow the uncertain, the raw, and the real to rise. It is an ode to those who walk with dignity, despite being unseen and a gesture toward a future shaped by radical care.
This exhibition explores the impacts of human intervention and resource extraction on waterways in Australia and Berlin. It features mild steel plates that have been submerged in water bodies across three locations and left to corrode. This method emphasises the agency of water and non-human entities within these controlled systems.
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On March 13, 1986, 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘣𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘍𝘳𝘶𝘪𝘵 opened at Firstdraft’s first location in Chippendale.
Firstdraft is catapulting into 2026 with a new year of ground-breaking programs, including our exhibition, micro-commission and writers program!
The Firstdraft Census is Firstdraft’s annual stakeholder survey for 2024. Firstdraft is growing and we want to hear from you during this period of change.