22/05/06

Just kicked off at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth is What sound does a color make?, a traveling exhibition exploring the fusion of vision and sound in electronic media. Organised by Independent Curators International (ICI) of New York, the exhibition features contemporary works by 10 international artists, from the pioneering single-channel video works of Nam June Paik, Steina Vasulka and Gary Hill, to recent works by Jim Campbell and London-based collective D-Fuse. The exhibition connects the recent boom of digital audiovisual art to its pre-digital roots. What sound does a color make? is curated by Kathleen Forde. It runs at Govett-Brewster Gallery until July 16.

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Indie Zine and rock tour, A Low Hum, is holding its tour finale at Wellington's Indigo this Friday May 27. Headlined by Wellington electro fiend Disasteradio along with Auckland groups Kill Surf City and Voom, the tour winds up in Wellington having visited Hamilton, Auckland, Motueka, Nelson, Christchurch, Dunedin and Palmerston North. For more information on A Low Hum, check out: www.alowhum.com .

17/05/06

Opening next week at Christchurch’s the High Street Project is "Inter mingle", the first solo exhibition by Kirstein Mckendry. The artist, who majored in sculpture at Canterbury School of Fine Arts, is interested in what she calls "bodily landscape", the suggestion of what lies between the physical and the ethereal or invisible. The exhibition, which involves drawing, photography and sculpture, runs from May 24 until June 10. There will be a preview on Tuesday, May 23 at 5:30pm.

10/05/06

Kiosk, a travelling archive of independent contemporary art publications, has opened at Christchurch's The Physics Room after spending five weeks at Artspace in Auckland. Organised and compiled by Kristoph Keller, founder of Munich publishing project Revolver, the exhibition contains more than 4000 publications from around the world. Having previously travelled throughout Europe, the collection should be making its way across North America later this year. As an extension of the exhibition, The Physics Room will be hosting a discussion on local publishing on Saturday, May 13, at 3pm. Speaking will be Christchurch independent publishers Hamish Win, Lee Cunliffe, Rob Hood and Aaron Beehre.

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Just opened at Wellington's Enjoy is P.R.I.E.S.T an exhibtion by Julien Dyne and Hamish Palmer dealing with the ever-proliferating spectacle of the art biennale. The artists say the audience will be herded like an animal but empowered like a consumer. The exhibtion runs until May 19.

01/05/06

Auckland artist Michael Parekowhai’s outdoor installation "The Big OE" has just opened at Te Papa in its new Sculpture Terrace located on the 6th floor. Curated by Natasha Conland, the work involves a revamped VW Kombi Van parked in a synthetic forest. "The Big OE" is a continuing series in which Parekowhai considers the tendency for, mainly Pakeha, New Zealanders to go on packaged voyages of self-discovery, excursions of low risk where experience of the indigenous is safe and unproblematic. The installation was commissioned by Te Papa and comes courtesy of Michael Lett Gallery.

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"The News is Also On Television", a performance by artists Simon Denny and Tahi Moore, will be held at Michael Lett Gallery this Wednesday, May 3. Beginning at 6 pm, the artists will build a construction through the simultaneous mirroring of one another’s actions. The resulting structure can be seen at the gallery the following day between 11-6.