Launch screening: Residue

Join us for a screening of Residue by Miška Mandić, followed by a Q&A between the artist and writer Ju Bavyka.

In Residue, the geological time held by all the minerals inside a mobile phone is visualised alongside the fruiting, sporing and decomposing time of fungi and soil. This is a troubled sense of stillness — the iPhone, like the lemon, like Angela, like the film crew, collide with people, animals, geological and tectonic movements, cameras, computers, ideologies, and visions of nationhood and time. Residue reconsiders what is regarded as important in the cinematic traditions of Western modernity and how in the gaps of its vision there are textures worth noticing. 

Residue is a Verge Digital project.

Learn more about the exhibition and related public programs here.

Food and drinks provided at the launch. All welcome. 

About Miška Mandić

Miška Mandić is an artist, film-maker 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.

VENUE ACCESS

Wheelchair access - there are two lifts available: one on City Rd and one on Maze Crescent.

Accessible and all-gender bathrooms are located about 90 metres from Verge. They are equipped with a handrail. A baby-change table is available.
Guide Dogs and support animals are welcome at Verge.

For detailed access information to the venue, please visit the Access page on Verge's website.

Image: Miška Mandić, Residue, 2024, video still. Image courtesy of the artist.