27/03/06

Image: Ho Tzu Nyen , Utama Every Name In History is I (2003) painting, DVD video installation

The exhibition Islanded: Contemporary Art from New Zealand, Singapore and Taiwan is currently showing at Wellington’s Adam Art Gallery until May 14. Co-curated by Sophie McIntyre (Adam Art), Eugene Tan (Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore) and Lee Weng Choy (The Substation), the exhibition features work from 12 artists focusing on the shared histories and geographies of these post-colonial island nations.

Choy, who is currently staying in Wellington as the inaugural Clark Collection Critic / Curator in residence at Victoria University, will be giving a talk at Artspace this Thursday, 6pm, on the topic: "Just What Is it that Makes the Term Global-Local So Widely Cited, Yet So Annoying?"

Back-issues of White Fungus are featured as part of Kiosk - Modes of Multiplication which has just opened at Auckland’s Artspace and will run until April 29. The exhibition, which is a traveling archive of independent publishing projects on contemporary art compiled since 2001, is curated by Christoph Keller, founder of German publishing project Revolver. This is the first time the collection has exhibited outside of Europe. It will travel to Christchurch’s the Physics Room, May 10 – June 3.