m3architecture and Daniel Crooks / Notes

Still from Untitled by Daniel Crooks
(Translation #01 — BGGS Creative Learning Centre)

Come along to see the first public element of Inkahoots' soon-to-be-launched new identity design for m3architects – a moving image work by Daniel Crooks.

The institute of Modern Art are presenting a talk by Daniel introducing his new work, followed by a discussion with Daniel, IMA Director Robert Leonard, and Michael Banney from m3archtecture.

The new identity introduces a radical new way of documenting and interpreting architecture.

Instead of relying solely on photography for documentation, m3architecture are collaborating with Australia's leading artists to interpret their poetic and pragmatic buildings. What if a building was imagined as contemporary art, or a short story, or a video game, or a song?

Applying post-branding principles, the communications approach both broadens and deepens the practice’s active cultural and social engagement. It fosters collaboration and new connections. It promotes alternative ways of creating and responding to architecture. It promotes a critique of the architecture and its context, opening possibilities for alternative realities. It creates a diversity of creative expression, embracing a diversity of voices.

Daniel Crooks

From the event organisers:

Time usually moves in one direction. Daniel Crooks prefers to split it open.

This July, Calile Culture welcomes the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) for an immersive presentation of new work by Daniel Crooks, one of Australia’s most significant moving image artists.

This event will serve as the launch of Crooks’ latest time-twisting video, exploring the central void of Brisbane Girls Creative Grammar’s Creative Learning Centre, designed by m3architecture.

Known for a visual language spanning video, photography and sculpture, Crooks investigates time as a physical, pliable material – stretching, compressing, fracturing and reconfiguring familiar subjects and movements to reveal the everyday as quietly extraordinary.

The rare display of work will be accompanied by a discussion led by IMA Director Robert Leonard, a contemporary art curator and writer recognised as one of the Asia Pacific region’s most respected curatorial voices. Leonard will guide a conversation grounded in design, place and time, with insights from Daniel Crooks himself and Michael Banney, Director of m3architecture, on Crooks’ recent commission project.

Together, the installation and discussion will trace the meeting point between art, architecture, design and theory.

When: Wednesday 8 July 2026, 6:00–7:30pm

Where: The Calile Hotel Rooftop, Level 7, 48 James Street

Tickets: $35 – book here

June 2026 / m3architecture and Daniel Crooks