June 1

Your Bad Self Louise Clifton

It's A Wonderful Tonight

On now at Wellington artist-run space Enjoy is It's a Wonderful Tonight, a new installation by Louise Clifton in which the artist has transformed the gallery into a soft cocoon of hushed lighting and ambient sound with a single on-screen projection. The installation sees Clifton continuing her ongoing project of photographic portraits based around a mysterious red-suited figure. The red suit also makes an appearance in Mestar's music video Konked Out which is currently exhibited as part of Radio with Pictures at the Hirschfeld Gallery.

It's a Wonderful Tonight runs at Enjoy until April 9.

The new Hamish McKay Gallery is now open at level one 39 Ghuznee Street, Wellington. The first exhibition features work by Australian artists Anne-Marie May and Rose Nolan.

www.hamishmckaygallery.com
monday may 21
Hany Armanious - Blindness


Morphic Resonance at the City Gallery
Now on at Wellington’s City Gallery is Morphic Resonance, the most comprehensive solo showing of the work of Sydney-based artist Hany Armanious in New Zealand to date. Curated by Heather Galbraith, the show features several of Armanious’ most well-known works, playfully installed in the downstairs gallery space. Among that the sights to be seen are the artists’ infamous exploding foam muffins, his neo pagan sculptures and a bubble-making contraption endlesslessly recording its data into an accumulating paper stream. Response to the work has already been strong so if you’re in Wellington, be sure not to miss this one.
Morphic Resonance runs at the City Gallery until 29 July.

www.citygallery.org.nz






Richard Von Sturmer at the Film Archive
After ten years in a Zen Buddhist Monastery in upstate New York, former New Zealand pop-song writer Richard Von Sturmer began making experimental short films. A selection of 26 such films can currently be seen at The Film Archive in Wellington, Tanka Films – visual and text interpretations of tanka, the unrhymed Japanese verse of five lines. Von Sturmer will be giving a live performance at the Archive this Friday 25 May at 6pm.

www.filmarchive.org.nz




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saturday 5 may

et al.: the fundamental practice, 51st Venice Biennale 2005
Photographer: Jennifer French


Reorder, Regroup, Restore

Just opened at Auckland’s Artspace is the first-ever showing in New Zealand of arts collective et al.’s 2005 Venice Biennale exhibition the fundamental practice in a reordered, regrouped, restored version. Following the so-called controversy and its antagonistic reception by a rear guard New Zealand media, finally the public can judge the exhibition for itself. The installation has already been reconfigured and exhibited abroad at galleries including The Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, and the Saatchi & Saatchi Gallery, New York. But strangely, in light of the exhibition’s success, the Arts Council (Creative New Zealand) has pulled its backing and won’t be sending a New Zealand exhibition to this year’s 52nd Venice Biennale. Et al.’s installations have been described as control-rooms or testing plants for theories. The project deals with ideologies and their structures of delivery, testing and provoking, allowing us (restricted) access to the test-zone.

The fundamental practice – reorder, regroup, restore runs at Artspace until June 9. An article about the Venice exhibition can be found in White Fungus issue 4.

http://www.etal.name/
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