Archives are Hot! – Honk! If You Archive...

Saluhan Collective presents Honk! If you archive…, an art bus tour for artists, archivists, and their allies, co-curated with The Great Book Return. Crossing both sides of the Birrarung, the ride blends curated snacks and bootleg bus games with exhibitions and curator talks at every stop.

Extending Fugitive Archives—an exhibition series curated by MJ Flamiano and Catherine Ortega-Sandow—this program examines how community-led archives come into dialectical tension with institutional archives. It also considers how artist-led initiatives can serve as transformative tools for collective organising and knowledge production.

The tour begins at RMIT City Campus, continues to MADA Gallery for Fugitive Archives: A spoken future, and concludes at Dukkana in Coburg for Fugitive Archives: The future is here, there, and everywhere, curated by Anna Emina and Celine Saoud. The evening ends with the exhibition opening, featuring a special activation by Majed Fayad.

Pack your primary sources and get ready to honk—because the archive is on the move.

Archives are Hot! Artists in the Archive is a two-day program of workshops, talks and activations. This event is a collaboration between Next Wave and Saluhan.

Next Wave

Next Wave is a leading not-for-profit arts organisation dedicated to supporting early-career artists working across multiple art forms. Next Wave plays a defining role in the Australian arts landscape by empowering and advocating for early-career and experimental artistic practice in Australia.

This event is part of Next Wave's ALL School programming. ALL School is an artist-led learning program designed to facilitate knowledge sharing and idea swapping.

Saluhan

Saluhan Collective is the creative collaboration of artists Aida Azin, Catherine Ortega-Sandow, and MJ Flamiano. Their practice is deeply rooted in Filipinx concepts of kinship and reciprocity, with a focus on creating spaces that interweave artistry and community engagement.

The Great Book Return

The Great Book Return is a living and growing archive of Palestinian, First Nations, Lebanese, and Syrian books, artworks, and artifacts based on unceded Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung Country.

Accessibility

The RMIT Garden Building is located at Level 5, Building 10, RMIT University 376-392 Swanston Street, Melbourne. This is a wheelchair accessible building with an elevator located behind Streat Cafe on Bowen Street (between Swanston and Russell streets).

Some on-street parking is available on LaTrobe Street. Trams operate along Swantson Street – get off at RMIT University stop and go to Bowen Street via La Trobe Street.

Artists in the Archive is supported by City of Melbourne