TWO NEW EXHIBITIONS AT THE PHYSICS ROOM
The Water Show
Harold Grieves & Alan Lacan, Sam Hartnett, Amy Howden-Chapman, Sophie Jerram, Miranda Parkes, Susie Pratt, Jonathan Smart
7–31 May 2008
Whether you have to go out of your way to get the good stuff, or pay each time you turn on the tap, water continues to be a subtle but problematic entity within many urban contexts. The Water Show consequently addresses some of the issues faced when water is treated as a resource. Incorporating works by a range of New Zealand artists such as Sam Hartnett (Auckland), Amy Howden-Chapman (Wellington), Sophie Jerram (Wellington), Miranda Parkes (Christchurch) and Susie Pratt (currently based in Wales), The Water Show also presents responses to more local contexts via inclusions by Harold Grieves & Alan Lacan and Jonathan Smart.
Whether tracking the politics, infrastructure and spheres of influence that underlie the management of water, or documenting more subjective terrain with an eye for the ecological as well as the aesthetic, The Water Show ultimately seeks to raise awareness and offer its audience some creative responses to water’s circulation and its ever increasing value.
screening room / exhibition space C
Fiona Connor
7–31 May 2008
Using the gallery as a material in and of itself and creating a situation where everything matters, Fiona Connor presents to us screening room / exhibition space C. By replicating and echoing surfaces that in this case forge an all inclusive plinth which potentially activates the possibilities of everyday happenings, here Connor utilises the pre-existing gallery space as a model for the raised floor construction she’s created, which is an elevated carbon copy of what would normally be encountered within the space.
This rising tide of construction flooding the room not only supports the concurrent exhibition surrounding the politics of water, but also the works on paper presented in the existing Physics Room publication stand. Here the interests motivating Connor’s large-scale architectural intervention extend subtly outside of that space, as other echoes of representation merge with the more communal, everyday spaces of The Physics Room for an audience familiar enough to notice them.
The Water Show
Harold Grieves & Alan Lacan, Sam Hartnett, Amy Howden-Chapman, Sophie Jerram, Miranda Parkes, Susie Pratt, Jonathan Smart
7–31 May 2008
Whether you have to go out of your way to get the good stuff, or pay each time you turn on the tap, water continues to be a subtle but problematic entity within many urban contexts. The Water Show consequently addresses some of the issues faced when water is treated as a resource. Incorporating works by a range of New Zealand artists such as Sam Hartnett (Auckland), Amy Howden-Chapman (Wellington), Sophie Jerram (Wellington), Miranda Parkes (Christchurch) and Susie Pratt (currently based in Wales), The Water Show also presents responses to more local contexts via inclusions by Harold Grieves & Alan Lacan and Jonathan Smart.
Whether tracking the politics, infrastructure and spheres of influence that underlie the management of water, or documenting more subjective terrain with an eye for the ecological as well as the aesthetic, The Water Show ultimately seeks to raise awareness and offer its audience some creative responses to water’s circulation and its ever increasing value.
screening room / exhibition space C
Fiona Connor
7–31 May 2008
Using the gallery as a material in and of itself and creating a situation where everything matters, Fiona Connor presents to us screening room / exhibition space C. By replicating and echoing surfaces that in this case forge an all inclusive plinth which potentially activates the possibilities of everyday happenings, here Connor utilises the pre-existing gallery space as a model for the raised floor construction she’s created, which is an elevated carbon copy of what would normally be encountered within the space.
This rising tide of construction flooding the room not only supports the concurrent exhibition surrounding the politics of water, but also the works on paper presented in the existing Physics Room publication stand. Here the interests motivating Connor’s large-scale architectural intervention extend subtly outside of that space, as other echoes of representation merge with the more communal, everyday spaces of The Physics Room for an audience familiar enough to notice them.
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White Fungus Editor On Kim Hill
White Fungus Editor Ron Hanson was on Kim Hill last Saturday. You can hear a pod cast of the interview here. http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday
