• The Gay Agenda
  • Responsibilities to Time
  • The Weatherman
  • Deviations
  • Thoughts and Prayers
  • Responsibilities to Time (prints)
  • Road Head
  • Toro
  • 1897-1991
  • Callum McGrath
  • Contact
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • POOFTA
  • River Torrens
  • Serious Queer Business
  • Passing
  • Selected Projects
The Gay Agenda
Responsibilities to Time
The Weatherman
Deviations
Thoughts and Prayers
Responsibilities to Time (prints)
Road Head
Toro
POOFTA
1897-1991
River Torrens
Serious Queer Business
Passing
Selected Projects
Curriculum Vitae
Contact
Callum McGrath

Responsibilities to Time is an ongoing project that stems from Callum McGrath’s research into public memorials dedicated to queer subjects and communities. Framed by a number of key queer theoretical texts, this project sees McGrath question how queer history and queer collective memory requires unconventional approaches to archival organisation. Arranged into an anonymous family photo-album, this experimental museological presentation works against the grain of linear archival organisation and critiques the structures that support established historiography. In breaking with these normalised practices, McGrath’s project forms part of an endeavour to re-conceive time in a way where queer love, loss and desire is prioritised over hereto-dominant modes, and asks us to consider an expanded notion of lineage, heritage and history.

Callum McGrath, Responsibilities to Time, 2021, digital photographic prints on found photo album pages, 24 parts, 29 x 32 cm each. 3 tables, rose pink and clear acrylic Perspex, powder coated aluminium, MDF, 102x820x800cm. 

Exhibited in To resound, unbound 2021 at the Centre for Contemporary Photography Melbourne. Curated Jack Willet. 

Images: J Forsyth 

Responsibilities to Time is an ongoing project that stems from Callum McGrath’s research into public memorials dedicated to queer subjects and communities. Framed by a number of key queer theoretical texts, this project sees McGrath question how queer history and queer collective memory requires unconventional approaches to archival organisation. Arranged into an anonymous family photo-album, this experimental museological presentation works against the grain of linear archival organisation and critiques the structures that support established historiography. In breaking with these normalised practices, McGrath’s project forms part of an endeavour to re-conceive time in a way where queer love, loss and desire is prioritised over hereto-dominant modes, and asks us to consider an expanded notion of lineage, heritage and history.

Callum McGrath, Responsibilities to Time, 2021, digital photographic prints on found photo album pages, 24 parts, 29 x 32 cm each. 3 tables, rose pink and clear acrylic Perspex, powder coated aluminium, MDF, 102x820x800cm. 

Exhibited in To resound, unbound 2021 at the Centre for Contemporary Photography Melbourne. Curated Jack Willet. 

Images: J Forsyth