29/08/06

Window Shopping in Brick City, an exhibition by Daniel Malone, is now showing at WINDOW, a contemporary art project space located by the foyer of the Auckland University Library. Employing a range of different media, including sculpture, video, photography and painting, Malone explores the present moment in China, a time of "hyperactive modernisation". The exhibition builds on work began in 2002 when Malone was studying at the Beijing Culture and Language University in China.

Window Shopping in Brick City runs until September 22. For more information check out:
www.window.auckland.ac.nz

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New Zealand-based web label Postmoderncore is set to release punk necromancers The Shambolic’s debut studio album: First I Kill You. Then I Steal Your Power. Once described as "bad music for bad people", the album is finally available.

Check out www.postmoderncore.com for more details.

23/08/06

Now running at Govett Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth is Len Lye ~ Body English, an exhibition looking at the close relationship between text and image in Lye's work. Curated by Tyler Cann, Body English features Lye's Surrealist photograms, poetry and films, as well as six hand-printed books for which he designed the covers, including his own No Trouble. For the first time, Lye's poetry will sit alongside some of these works, shedding new light on their curious imagery.

Len Lye ~ Body English is on show at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery until Ocober 1.

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Happy Bar and Venue – Wellington’s premier purveyor of live experimental music and performance – is celebrating its third birthday this week. The Tory Street music haunt promises three nights of musical revelry in honour of the occasion, kicking off Wednesday night and running through to Friday. The line up so far is as follows:

Wednesday 23 Aug:
Gerard crewdson back from oz
BITtrio – Bridget Kelly, Taylor Taylor and Isaac Smith
Alphabethead

Thursday 24 Aug:
Onomatopoeia – Dave Ward, Ian Downer and Isaac Smith
Manimanima
Some reorganisation of Cleatus
DJ Day G Day
And The Mystery Guests

Friday 25 Aug:
The Deconstruction Unit
Pleasing Mummy
The Not Quite Quiet Quior
Alphabethead
DJ Day G Day
DJ Elon

Check out: www.myspace.com/happybar

Also, web-based label Postmoderncore has just released the first "studio" recording of punk rockers The Shambolics. Recorded September 2004 in Brooklyn, Wellington, the album, First: I Kill You. Then: I Steal Your Power, has been described as "Bad music for Bad People".

Visit www.postmoderncore.com for more details.

04/08/06

Dane Mitchell, Dunedin Public Art Gallery (Specimen 001), (2003),

ARCHIVING FEVER

Just opened at Wellington's Adam Art Gallery is Archiving Fever, an exhibition exploring memory, archiving, fiction and the impulse to build narrative. Curated by Emily Cormack, the show features the work of nine artists from New Zealand, Italy, Austria and Singapore, mixing in the mediums of video, photography and installation.

Mexican artist Gaston Ramirez, whose video work Gotcha feautures as part of the exhibition, will be performing an intervention, Urban (Play) Traces, on Upper Cuba Street this Monday, 7 August at 1pm. Highlighting the changing face of the city and its many layers of history, Ramirez will be performing the intervention in rememberance of the houses and artist studios that have been demolished or removed to give way for Wellington's upcomming Inner City Bypass. Archiving Fever runs until 1 October.