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208 pages, 17 x 24 cm, otabind softcover with flaps
Perimeter Editions 128
ISBN: 978-1-922545-65-7
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Sriwhana Spong: HA HA HA

Co-published by Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) and Perimeter Editions, this publication accompanies Sriwhana Spong: HA HA HA, the artist’s first major solo exhibition in Australia.

Working across film, sculpture, performance and writing, Spong’s practice explores how knowledge is approached, framed and made perceptible. Her works often begin with a small or contingent encounter – a text, image, living organism or historical trace – which becomes the starting point for extended inquiry. Following these traces through experiential and research-based processes, Spong develops works that reframe understandings of time and the entanglement of human and non-human life.

New texts by Vera Mey, May Adadol Ingawanij, Tessa Laird and poet Ariana Reines situate Spong’s work within expanded fields of cinema, speculative poetics and embodied knowledge. A personal text by the artist reflects on questions of naming, inheritance and cultural transmission. Together, these contributions trace the conceptual threads running through Spong’s practice, offering new perspectives on the ways her work engages memory, history and embodied forms of knowledge.


208 pages, 17 x 24 cm, otabind softcover with flaps
Perimeter Editions 128
First Edition of 800
ISBN: 978-1-922545-65-7
Publication date: April 2026
Printed by Gutenberg Beuys, Germany
Co-published by Monash University Museum of Art and Perimeter Editions
Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
Editors: Stephanie Berlangieri and Pip Wallis
Texts: Ariana Reines, Sriwhana Spong, Vera Mey, May Adadol Ingawanij, Tessa Laird, Rebecca Coates
Design: Narelle Brewer for Perimeter Bureau
Copyediting: Linda Michael
Contributing editor: Dan Rule
Proofreading: Sarah GorySriwhana Spong was born in Auckland in 1979. Spong studied at the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2001, before completing a Master of Fine Art at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. She was awarded a doctorate from the University of Auckland in 2021, with a thesis examining the practices of medieval and early modern women mystics. Spong currently lives and works in London. Several residences have shaped her practice, including the International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York; Gasworks, London; and AMANT, Siena.

Spong has presented solo exhibitions internationally, including Luzpomphia, Michael Lett, Auckland (2023), The Poem is a Temple, Western Front, Vancouver (2021), Ida-Ida, Spike Island, Bristol (2019), and A hook but no fish, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth (2018). Her work has been included in major group exhibitions such as the 17th Istanbul Biennial (2022), Trust and Confusion, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2022), Honestly Speaking, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (2020), and the 18th Biennale of Sydney (2012). She was shortlisted for the Walters Prize in 2012 and 2019.

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