Miška Mandić, Residue, 2024, video still. Image courtesy of the artist.
Screening begins 6:20pm
Artist Q&A begins 6:45pm
Join us for the premiere screening of Residue by Miška Mandić, followed by a Q&A between the artist and writer Ju Bavyka.
Free, all welcome.
Drinks and food provided.
Learn more about the exhibition and related public programs here.
About Miška Mandić
Miška Mandić is an artist, filmmaker and educator born in SFR Yugoslavia, living on Gadigal and Wangal Land. Through a cinematic and photographic practice, her works explore the interrelated relationship between cinema, colonial-capitalism and a structuring of time. Miška’s works have been shown at Firstdraft, Composite Moving Image, Pari Ari, Airspace, Sydenham International, and her video installations The Fold (2022) and Residue (2024) have been finalists in the Fisher’s Ghost award at Campbelltown Art Center. Miška Is a lecturer in screen production at UNSW.
About Ju Bavyka
Ju Bavyka is a writer, visual artist, and community organiser born in Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan, living on Wangal and Gadigal Land. Working across text, installation, drawing, and facilitation, they write, publish, collaborate, and exhibit from a queer migrant perspective. With a background in architecture and visual communication, Ju often uses vernacular materials and performative formats to ask what care, refusal, and survival can look like. Their work has been presented both nationally and internationally. Ju’s essays, poetry, and creative non-fiction — exploring migration, queerness, labour, and structural exclusion — have appeared in un Magazine, Runway Conversations, Liminal, and InterAlia. Ju is the 2025 recipient of the Peter Blazey Fellowship and is currently working on their first book manuscript.