Come to our launch event for ScratchThat 2025!
Friday 24th of October at 5pm | QUT KG Building Z9 Room 120
Our launch event will combine art, live performance, readings, creativity, and community, presented by QUT’s Creative Arts students. Bring some friends and make some new ones at the Z9 studios at QUT Kelvin Grove on Friday 24 October with art, a raffle and lots to do. And of course, grab your copy of ScratchThat in print!
AIMEE TACON
porcelain smile, meet
porcelain teeth. shake hands now
frozen grip, stiff lip…
Amelie Meinel
There’s something living inside me
it has no name
I fear that giving it one will give it power.
It seethes in my veins like lightning,
a murderous tempest in my skull.
It’s ants burrowing beneath my skin…
Quinn Procter
Spots of mould scatter across yellow walls and nestle comfortably in the moist environment, but I can’t take my eyes off the mirror. I’m the last one in the changing room as the rest of my class gather by the pool. I can’t wait much longer, because having a teacher drag me out would only cause a scene…
Tia Shang
The lights on the motorway explode like stars through my welling tears and skim across my glasses. My blood-imbrued hands clutch and twist their grip around the steering wheel, nervous with the need to do anything other than keep these tyres straight. The exit is close…
Tangqing Zhang
The Cipher of Light
When the sunset stains the sea,
we become conspirators of light.
The broken waves in your eyes
write fleeting verses…
Eleody French
I wish for you to experience Diamond Beach. You’ve never seen the sun so bright before, sand sparkles through the peaking shrubbery window as you walk the thin gravel path.The ocean speaks clearly to you now; its beautiful clapping for your arrival and distant laughter are carried by the salty breeze…
ScratchThat’s theme this edition is Labour. Our focus is the conflict between creative autonomy and creative automation. We want you to explore what physicality, labour, and print media mean to you. Do you believe that artificial intelligence threatens physical media and manual processes or emphasises its value? Are you an acolyte of these digital systems or a rebel against them? Either way, we would love to see!
