You Are Here Too
12 April–29 June 202512 Apr–29 Jun 2025
Held at the Institute of Modern Art in 1992, You Are Here was a landmark exhibition, curated by Scott Redford and Luke Roberts. It showcased the work of twelve gay Australian men at a time when HIV/AIDS dominated LGBTQI+ discourse in Australia. It sought to make gay artists visible and to explore the impact of HIV/AIDS. You Are Here Too will respond to its legacy.
The show will address several questions: How are queer sex and desire made visible and invisible in an era no longer defined by AIDS? What are the formal and conceptual lineages between You Are Here and current queer practice in Australia? How do these practices resonate with each other, and how do they diverge? Can we see the influence of a previous generation, for whom queer sex was defined by sickness and death? And how have artists moved on to raise new questions facing queer communities?
In addition to works by Holly Bates, Nick Breedon, Alexis Kanatsios, Gian Manik, and Yangamini, the project will include an international film-and-video and performance programs.
Artists
Kink is a cross-disciplinary working group researching and formalising a history of queer Australian art and an Adjunct Curator at the IMA. It currently comprises art historian Amelia Barikin, artist and facilitator Courtney Coombs, artist and researcher Callum McGrath, artist and educator Spiros Panigirakis, and art historian and curator Tim Riley Walsh. Its members are based in Meanjin/Brisbane, Naarm/Melbourne, and Gadigal/Sydney.
