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#VALUE!

Charged by a world demanding perfection, UQ 13 explores the opposite: failure. We celebrate the "worthless," reclaiming value in the discordant, the unconventional, and the glitch. Asking what happens when we stop trying to "get it right," this issue critiques the rigid structures governing creativity. We have displaced value across both design and editorial to question established standards. #VALUE! is an anthology of shared experiments. It is a testament to the unpredictable creative energy unleashed when we dare to break, stumble, and gleefully fail.

Stay tuned for where to grab a physical copy; until then, explore the work in our online archive.

𝓵𝓸𝓼𝓽 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓯𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓭

Two words that speak to us of absence and recovery. Here, text and images resist the simplicity of this binary, looking toward the fleeting, the often overlooked and the transformative. We have found something growing in the cracks of the concrete, reassembled from the dust within an archive and in the light that the moon casts upon the sea. We have lost many things, but not in their entirety. Like an atmospheric sound that lingers over us, they remain living, waiting for our attention. An unknown quantity of reverberations surrounds us, conjuring memories, both material and affective so as to offer a careful rereading of the present.

Contributors:
Tim Gibney, Shengjia Zhang, Makila Nsika Nkaya, Cecilia Leete, Mary Stuart Murray, Maia DeCamillo, Jango Cai, Barney Pau, Niyi Okuboyejo, Liliana Della Valle, Transit Grp. Louis Duvoisin, Radio Alhara

Curating, editing and design:
Andrew Murray
Anjuli-Irene Vadera
Hazel Graham
Isabella Millett
Nicky Kai-ho Liang
Mono Li
Qianru Yang
Runxin Zheng