Hue & Cry
New Zealand art & literary journal
Issue Two: Stakeout
edited by Chloe Lane
includes: New fiction by Pip Adam and Eleanor Catton, winner of the 2007 Sunday Star Times Short Story Competition; poetry from Biggs award-winners Joan Fleming and Amy Brown; novelist Carl Shuker in interview, discussing The Method Actors and the film adaptation of The Lazy Boys; Tao Wells discussing Sarah Gruiters' 2007 show, Not Even Tomorrow; specially commissioned works by Fiona Connor and Liz Allan, the 2008 Artist in Residence at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery; and new texts by Tahi Moore and Simon Denny.
FRANZ ACKERMANN: My secondary coming
Franz Ackermann (1963, Neumarkt St. Veit in West Germany) is one of the most regarded contemporary artists. After big survey exhibitions in major museums around the world he will return to the city where his career took the crucial turnaround: Hong Kong.
From 1990 to 1992, Franz Ackermann lived here and developed his idea of the Mental Maps that would later make him into one of the most regarded artist of his generation. Mental Maps are small drawings that are inspired from the cityscapes as well as brain structures and spiritual centers. These Mental Maps are concerned with the City and the Space as much as with the individual notion of moving and traveling. Originally born out of the necessity to draw in a small 2 by 1 meter room in Mong Kok, these small drawings developed into an important tool not only to remember his journeys but also function as foundations for Franz Ackermann's bigger paintings and spectacular room-size installations.
For his first exhibition in Hong Kong, Ackermann will revisit his early Mental Maps, which are complied from various collections, presented on view for the first time ever in Hong Kong. The artist will stay in Hong Kong to develop a completely new wall- installation that draws reference to his early Mental Maps but will also create a series of wall-paintings acting as juxtaposition to the smaller paintings in the exhibition. Supported by Goethe Institut Hongkong, the artist talk is held in collaboration with the Hong Kong Arts School.
Opening: Saturday 5 July, 6:30 pmExhibition: 6 July 2008 to 3 August 2008Artist's Talk: Wednesday 2 July, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm at Room 1907AB at the Hong Kong Art School, Learning Centre, Hopewell Centre, Wan Chai; RSVP essential to info@para-site.org.hk
"A very articulate American"
Every year thousands of the world's youth pass through New Zealand as either backpackers, or as temporary workers. Of those adventurous thousand there are bound to be some who go on to acclaim or honours. William Dewey, author of the soon-to-be-released Without a Soul to Move, may be that vaunted visitor.
Set in an impending winter in Denver, Colorado, Without a Soul to Move follows three men trying to extract meaning from their wilting lives. Their efforts are marked by varying degrees of sanity, from morbid social experimentation to vicarious relationship counselling and the late-night excursions of a costumed vigilante. The novel converges themes of suffering, love and absence into a graceful, but humourous narrative.
Dewey describes the book as an attempt to find some useful outlet for the surge of emotions wreaked by the turbulence of his own life in the years leading up to its composition. Faced with the death of loved ones and self-imposed isolation in distant lands, writing a novel was the most constructive possible response he could come up with.
'In 2008 the story of the traveler is often the story of the voyeur', Richard Meros, production assistant at Lawrence and Gibson publishing collective asserts. 'But William has moved a step beyond, refracting back to the reader the brittleness of the everyday.'
Unity Books and Lawrence and Gibson are proud to launch Without a Soul to Move on July the 5th at 5pm at Unity Books on Willis Street in Wellington. This launch will mark the fifth release of Lawrence and Gibson, and the third primary author to their stables. Mr Dewey will be present to offer sagely advice and Richard Meros will also be on hand to pontificate wildly on the book's underlying themes.
William Dewey was born in Colorado and has roamed the globe aimlessly ever since. Without a Soul to Move, his second novel (and first with Lawrence and Gibson) was written in Montana, New York, California, and Wellington, where he now lives. To arrange interviews, or for more information/review copies contact James Marr via lawrenceandgibson @ gmail.com
VINCENT GROCERY
Curated by Laura Preston
27 June – 12 July 2008
Opening party and catalogue launch: Thursday 26 June, 6pm. Lecture on water closets commissioned by Xin Cheng: Saturday 28 June 2pm.
Vincent Grocery brings together three artists in a collaborative exhibition that expands on notions of sculpting space. Investigating the materialisation of movement and temporality in sculptural form, Arps, Cheng and Frater draw attention to the gallery as a performative space. Vincent Grocery will transform the expectation of the gallery situation by identifying problems and suggesting new functions. The exhibition asks: How can I deepen my understanding of a structure by means of intervention and transformation? Can a context also become performative when an activity within it is acting responsively? When visualising the imperceptible what stories are told – political, art historical or otherwise?
Curated by Laura Preston
27 June – 12 July 2008
Opening party and catalogue launch: Thursday 26 June, 6pm. Lecture on water closets commissioned by Xin Cheng: Saturday 28 June 2pm.
Vincent Grocery brings together three artists in a collaborative exhibition that expands on notions of sculpting space. Investigating the materialisation of movement and temporality in sculptural form, Arps, Cheng and Frater draw attention to the gallery as a performative space. Vincent Grocery will transform the expectation of the gallery situation by identifying problems and suggesting new functions. The exhibition asks: How can I deepen my understanding of a structure by means of intervention and transformation? Can a context also become performative when an activity within it is acting responsively? When visualising the imperceptible what stories are told – political, art historical or otherwise?
This exhibition is programmed as a component of Laura Preston’s 2008 Enjoy Summer Residency, an experimental conflation of ideas around performance, space and sculpture, which took place from 15 January – 16 February. Join us on Thursday 26 June to celebrate the opening of the exhibition and the simultaneous launch of the accompanying publication ‘Never Completely Still’. Published by Enjoy, this stunning catalogue features a substantial text by Preston, texts and page works by Dan Arps, Xin Cheng and Richard Frater, and documentation of the Summer Residency in-process by photographer Michael Salmon.
---------------------------------------------------
Cherry Bomb Comics 4th Birthday Party
Cherry Bomb Comics is gonna be hosting a PARTY at the Wine Cellar, StKevin's Arcade, K rd on FRIDAY 4th JULY 2008.We are celebrating our 4th BIRTHDAY (even tho we no loner exist in theflesh, we do still exist online and in spirit..!) Meaning we firstopened our doors in 2004, one month after the Wine Cellar, who we lovefondly like a sweet older brother who puts up with his sister's crazypunk antics because she is so smart and cool...and we are very proud and excited to present 3 bands fromWellington!!! (2 of whom were coming up anyway...) and one coolazlocal band! ******the amazing NEWTOWN http://www.myspace.com/newtownrulz *****for the first time in auckland THE WIND-UPS http://www.myspace.com/thewindupss*************and TANK BLACK http://www.myspace.com/wertrouble***************** and also, on home turf, THE CURFEW GIRLS http://www.myspace.com/curfewgirls
We are gonna hold STALLS in the Wine Cellar from 6 - 8pm (free entry),where you can peruse our fine selection of excellent comix, zines andgraphic novels, even buy some if you want!then BANDS from 8 -11pm ($5)It's gonna kick off kinda early so be there in good time xThere will also be FREE stuff, AERIAL theatrics, PRIZES and birthday CAKEAlso, we are launching our new online shop and brand new website whichwill hopefully be 100% complete by then and also its a little bit of asad farewell cos cherrybomb's backbone melissa is leaving us to go toeurope and also a happy hurrah cos its her birthday tooYAY!!!
tui
xxxxxxxxxxx
SIMON WICKHAM-SMITH
LOVE & LAMENTATION
(Pogus 21048-2)
UPC: 76034210427
Simon Wickham-Smith was born on the south coast of England in February 1968 and graduated from King's College, London in 1990 with a degree in English Literature. Whilst at university, he met Richard Youngs and from that meeting developed a friendship which has produced more recordings than he cares to remember. As a solo performer, he has played in Australia, Belgium, Finland, France, Holland, Lithuania, the UK and the US and his work has been released on labels in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. Not satisfied with making music, he has also been a Buddhist monk in the Tibetan tradition, and is also a translator and scholar of Mongolian and Tibetan literature.
The Sandokai ("The Harmony of Difference and Equality") is a prayer written by the eighth century Japanese Zen teacher Sekito Kisen. The basis for this piece was a tape given to Wickham-Smith by a nun of a recital at her monastery. He wanted to create of this sample a prayer without borders, a follow-up to an earlier work, Ave Regina Caelorum (2000, released on Extreme Bukake [VHF65]), in which he used the Latin plainsong of a prayer to the Virgin Mary in much the same way. The organ sample at the end is from a piece by Erik Satie, whose spirituality was equally strange and eclectic. All the samples have been stretched and pitch-shifted beyond (immediate) recognition; to the ears they have melded into something that seems at once both ethereal and solid.
The Kin-kindness of Beforehand grew out of his "Multiple Tongues" project, a series of pieces in which Wickham-Smith exposed the spoken word in many different languages to a series of digital manipulations. The Kin-kindness of Beforehand is divided up into several distinct sections, each of which took on a particular persona during its creation. For the composer, this was the most complex of all the "Multiple Tongues" works, because he wanted to use specific strings of words and the quality of writer Rachel Becker's voice somehow to comment on each another.
love&lamentation started life as a setting for voice and electronics of part of the biblical Book of Lamentation, but it quickly became clear to that the literal setting of words was not going to convey the melancholic intimacy that needed to be expressed. As a teenager Wickham-Smith had heard Alain Gheerbrant's wonderful ethnomusicological recordings of a blind Turkish troubador and had fallen hopelessly in love with his voice and exquisite playing of the saz. About the same time, through his friend Richard Youngs, he had discovered also the ex tempore psalm singing of the Scottish Isle of Lewis. Fifteen years later, he decided that these two could be made somehow to work together to show the love and lamentation which he felt they both held in their deeper recesses, and which he wanted to present in this new piece. The result is a strange melée of feelings, repetitions and textures. From time to time we hear a somewhat bizarre percussion sample, which he had first worked on in 2000. Part 3 opens with an offcut from an unreleased (and now never-to-be-released) piece from 1999 called Deaf Piano. Veysel's voice starts the piece and revolves through Part 2 in a kind of hippy trance love-in fashion. The congregation from Lewis sing their melancholy in a sparser and maybe wilder wayŠand die slowly away into the distance at the close.
pogus
50 ayr road chester
ny 10918
fax 509 357 4319 l
The DSL Collection
Installation: Sue Lea 1, Shu Lea Cheang, Baby Love, 2005, A Mobile wifi Installation that consists of 6 large size (170cm Diameter) teacups and 6 clone babies (70 cm tall)The DSL collection is a private collection representing 70 of the leading Chinese avant-garde artists, artists having a major influence on the development of contemporary art in China today. The range of media present in the collection include painting, sculpture, installation, video, and photography; yet the choice of works tries to go beyond the current contemporary art market frenzy. A fixation with emblematic Chinese artists who are at present the darlings of the market could easily distort the understanding of both, history and actual situation of the contemporary Chinese art scene.
Even though focusing on the contemporary production of a specific culture, the collection is nevertheless not guided by the search for otherness. It admits basic cultural similarities and dispositions, however, goes beyond a simplistic approach looking for typical cultural signs and symbols.
Mark Crispin Miller's Warning To America
Mark Crispin Miller is a professor of media studies at New York University and runs the blog News From The Underground on which he reports on issues of voter fraud in US elections. In this video clip, Endgame: Bush & Cheney's desperate measures, Miller talks about how the Republicans are poised to steal the 2008 election and warns of the steps the Bush Administration has been taking towards US martial law.
Check out the second part of the video clip on Youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX9IvrFYVfI&feature=related
Vox Novus and Submissions to 60X60
Vox Novus is an organisation based in New York dedicated to producing and promoting new music. It currently has more than 100 composers who are members. One of the projects Vox Novus produces is "60X60", a project containing 60 compositions from 60 different composers, each composition 60 seconds or less in duration. The project has so far received more than 1500 submissions from around the world. Three CDs have been thus far put out titled simply "2003", "2004" and "2005", featuring a selection of compositons from that year. There have been more than 70 performances around the world done in collaboration with artists from different disciplines in various cities as diverse as Chicago, Lille, Sydney and Bucharest. Some of the many notable artists involved include Noah Creshevsky, Annea Lockwood and Bob Gluck.
Vox Novus also does regional performances and mixes if it gets enough submissions from a single region. In order for there to be a New Zealand mix and hopefully a performance, the organisation has to receive at least 60 submissions from New Zealand. Submissions can be sent to:
Vox Novus is an organisation based in New York dedicated to producing and promoting new music. It currently has more than 100 composers who are members. One of the projects Vox Novus produces is "60X60", a project containing 60 compositions from 60 different composers, each composition 60 seconds or less in duration. The project has so far received more than 1500 submissions from around the world. Three CDs have been thus far put out titled simply "2003", "2004" and "2005", featuring a selection of compositons from that year. There have been more than 70 performances around the world done in collaboration with artists from different disciplines in various cities as diverse as Chicago, Lille, Sydney and Bucharest. Some of the many notable artists involved include Noah Creshevsky, Annea Lockwood and Bob Gluck.
Vox Novus also does regional performances and mixes if it gets enough submissions from a single region. In order for there to be a New Zealand mix and hopefully a performance, the organisation has to receive at least 60 submissions from New Zealand. Submissions can be sent to:
c/o Robert Voisey
Radio City Station
P.O. Box 1607
NY, NY 10101
Remember each recording has to last 60 seconds. For more information on the project, check out the Vox Novus website: http://www.voxnovus.com/ . Also, yesterday I was on Concert FM's 'Upbeat' and talked with Eva Radich about the project and played some tracks off the CDs. A podcast will up on the website for 7 days:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/concert/programmes/upbeat/20080613
Remember each recording has to last 60 seconds. For more information on the project, check out the Vox Novus website: http://www.voxnovus.com/ . Also, yesterday I was on Concert FM's 'Upbeat' and talked with Eva Radich about the project and played some tracks off the CDs. A podcast will up on the website for 7 days:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/concert/programmes/upbeat/20080613
-------------------------------------------------------------
A Call For Submissions - A Message From Zoe Drayton At Audio Foundation
Hey all,If you had a gripe about the non-academic experimental music world being under-represented on the NZ Geographic CD, here's your chance!
We've been funded for a compilation CD to be given away with February 2009 edition of The Wire magazine (subscribers only but that's still 9000 copies!).It'll also be included with the White Fungus (in New Zealand) issue around the same time.
The compilation is intended to be an overview of current NZ audio culture, including both emerging and established artists.
Rather than having one person responsible for curating the CD we've decided to open it out for submissions, then a panel of 3 or so people will pick the tracks and collate it into its final running order.We all know there's a boxset worth of people who should be on it but it's only a single CD and there will inevitably be some who feel overlooked by the end result. Hopefully the panel can be as fair and impartial as possible and still put together something with an overall sense of composition that's a nice overview of our collective musical worlds.
So get cracking and send in your tracks...Or more importantly, make us your best track ever!
Keep them around 3 or 4 minutes if you can.Naturally we don't want to compromise your musical decisions (this will be hard for some) but we also need to fit as many people on there as we can.
If you have anyone that you collaborate well with, and want to, then that gives us a chance to cover more ground.
Similarly, if you know of anyone this might not have reached, please forward it on to them.
All tracks need to be exclusive to the compilation and can't be registered with any publishing agencies (otherwise The Wire gets charged mechanical royalty fees) so a royalty waiver will need to be signed.
Tracks need to be sent to us by Sep 30th 2008 at the latest (earlier is better).The production and shipping are reliant on this date so we cannot accept any late submissions.
Please send your tracks to: The Audio Foundation
PO Box 68518,
Newton, Auckland.
John Baldessari creates Billboard for ARTSPACE
In his first show in New Zealand John Baldessari has created a new work specifically for the ARTSPACE billboard project. Baldessari worked with Samoan New Zealander Joseph Churchward, the famous typographer and has employed the typeface 'Churchward Montezuma 96 Extra Bold' to comment on the simple text “Learn to dream.” This is the third ARTSPACE billboard project in partnership with the Langham Hotel and it is now up on the corner of Karangahape Road and Symonds Street. ARTSPACE Director Brian Butler says, “In this billboard project Baldessari utilizes the advertising format to prod or encourage the general public to think or in this case, dream as a knowing activity.” John Baldessari was one of the principle artists in the conceptual art movement based in California in the 1960s. As one of the founding teachers at the California Institute of the Arts (CALARTS) from1970 – 1988 and through teaching at the University of California (UCLA) in Los Angeles from 1996 – 2007, his impact on the development of art has been profound. He has received numerous honorary degrees and awards. His awards include; the Americans for the Arts lifetime achievement award the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Upcoming awards include the Oscar Kokoschka Prize from Austria. John Baldessari’s projects include artist books, videos, films, billboards and public works. His art has been featured in more than 200 solo exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe and in over 750 group exhibitions. Recent projects include; solo shows in New York, Europe, and Los Angeles including retrospectives in 2005 at; the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien in Vienna, Austria, the Kunsthaus Graz in Graz in Austria, and at the Carré d'art, musée d'art contemporain in Nimes, France. Upcoming projects and exhibitions include; Fondazione Prada in Milan, and a major travelling retrospective that begins at the Tate Modern in London in 2009. ARTSPACE uses the Langham Hotel’s billboard for contemporary art projects. The space provides an opportunity for the invited artist to work on a massive scale, measuring 22.5 x 4 metres. We would like to thank Joseph Churchward and Warren Olds, and acknowledge the generous support of the Langham Hotel, Omnigraphics, Billboard Solutions and Karangahape Road Business Association.
image: An Index For The Homeless 2008
Gzllery 1 + 2 SafARI 2008
Mark Brown, Timothy Kendall Edser, Lucas Grogan, Luke Thurgate, curated by Lisa Corsi
What the Fringe Festival is to Edinburgh and Liste is to Basel, SafARI 2008 will be to Sydney during the 2008 Biennale of Sydney. SafARI is an exhibition presenting works by emerging and unrepresented Australian artists across three Artist Run Initiatives in Sydney (China Heights, MOP Projects and Gaffa). SafARI will include works in diverse media including photography, new media, ceramics and painting. SafARI will be timed to coincide with the first three crucial weeks of the 2008 Biennale of Sydney (13 June – 29 June 2008). This unofficial and unauthorised linkage, (made by the timing of the exhibition only), capitalises on the increased national and international focus on Sydney at that time in order to provide opportunities for all the artists, arts workers and art spaces involved.
___________________________________________________________________________
OUT OF GALLERY WORK An Index Of Kindness Ruark Lewis
AN INDEX FOR THE HOMELESS for Abercrombie Street JUNE 2008
There are many blind spots in cities that allow shelter spaces for homeless people. But the profit motive has little mercy for the disadvantaged. As the nature of public verses private space is contested, the outcast provide the shock troops. The Shiny, Tidy New City has little room for those who live outside. As public space is privatised or commercialised, spatial courtesies are engineered to be more and more hostile. Councils can make matters worse for the Homeless in tiny ways. Planners design to lock out the poor and less-mobile: benches have arm-rests in the centre and toilets have door timers or are permanently locked. Churches, too, are closing drop-in centres and soup kitchens.
___________________________________________________________________________
OUT OF GALLERY WORK An Index Of Kindness Ruark Lewis
AN INDEX FOR THE HOMELESS for Abercrombie Street JUNE 2008
There are many blind spots in cities that allow shelter spaces for homeless people. But the profit motive has little mercy for the disadvantaged. As the nature of public verses private space is contested, the outcast provide the shock troops. The Shiny, Tidy New City has little room for those who live outside. As public space is privatised or commercialised, spatial courtesies are engineered to be more and more hostile. Councils can make matters worse for the Homeless in tiny ways. Planners design to lock out the poor and less-mobile: benches have arm-rests in the centre and toilets have door timers or are permanently locked. Churches, too, are closing drop-in centres and soup kitchens.
This project is part of a series called An Index of Kindness. The street intervention directly on busy Abercrombie Street aims to remind citizens of Sydney that social inclusion is very important not just for homeless people. The work illuminates the plight of the Homeless in a poetic/political agit-prop. The language of the poetic/political I hope will engage people in a form of propaganda I’ve named Socio-Obligato. It seeks to personalise and empower the Homeless by providing greater recognition of the homeless as individuals and of their civil rights.
Ruark Lewis has exhibited widely in Australia and was included
Ruark Lewis has exhibited widely in Australia and was included
SafARI ARTISTS in 3 venues China Heights, Gaffa and Mop
Ron Adams, Liam Benson, Mark Brown, David Capra, Justin Cooper, Timothy Kendall Edser, Jessica Geron, Lucas Grogan, Chris Jones, Saskia Pandji Sakti, Luke Thurgate
Ron Adams, Liam Benson, Mark Brown, David Capra, Justin Cooper, Timothy Kendall Edser, Jessica Geron, Lucas Grogan, Chris Jones, Saskia Pandji Sakti, Luke Thurgate
SafARI EVENTS - Opening Night
6-9pm, Friday 13 June 2008, at MOP Projects
6-9pm, Friday 13 June 2008, at MOP Projects
- Public Forum with Barbara Flynn
3pm, Sunday 22 June 2008, at Gaffa
3pm, Sunday 22 June 2008, at Gaffa
- Artist Talks and ARI Tour
2pm, Saturday 28 June 2008, meeting at MOP Projects
2pm, Saturday 28 June 2008, meeting at MOP Projects
- Closing Party
6pm, Saturday 28 June 2008, at China Heights
6pm, Saturday 28 June 2008, at China Heights
MOP Projects 2 / 39 Abercrombie Street Chippendale Sydney NSW 2008
http://www.mop.org.au/
http://www.mop.org.au/
___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________
Bill Moyers Gives Electrifying Speech in Minneapolis on Media Reform
Legendary journalist Bill Moyers electrified an audience of more than 3,500 in Minneapolis this morning calling the media reform movement "the most significant citizens' movement to emerge in this new century."
"Inspired by Free Press, SavetheInternet.com, a bipartisan coalition, has become crucial to the fight to keep the World Wide Web a bastion of free speech," Moyers said.""The fate of the cyber commons is up for grabs here," he said. "We'll lose that fight without you because the only antidote to the power of money in Washington is the power of organized people at the netroots."
Help Spread the Word. Tell Your Friends to Watch This Powerful Video.
Moyers was speaking during the second day of the National Conference for Media Reform, an event that has gathered thousands of people dedicated to making our media system more democratic, diverse and accountable.
Moyers was speaking during the second day of the National Conference for Media Reform, an event that has gathered thousands of people dedicated to making our media system more democratic, diverse and accountable.
You can follow breaking events from the conference and watch speeches from such luminaries as Larry Lessig, Representative Keith Ellison and activist Adrienne Maree Brown by visiting www.freepress.net/conference/video. Stay tuned to the Web site for upcoming speeches by Dan Rather, Arianna Huffington and Van Jones.
The Web site also features full audio clips from the more than 60 panels and live blogging (sign up to post your own blog and comment on others).
Join the action online!
Timothy Karr
Campaign DirectorFree Press
TIM COSTER AND ADAM WILLETTS
Tonight, Saturday 7 June 2008, 8pm
The Physics Room $5
Auckland-based Tim Coster graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts from AUT in 2002, specialising in sculpture. Since then he has been practising mainly as a Sound Artist, working with audio releases, installations and performance. Coster uses field recordings and other gathered sounds, processed by computer and digital/analogue looping devices to create shifting delicate drone works. Collaborations include work with Mark Sadgrove, Nigel Wright, Andrew Scott (as Huzun), and Plains.
Tim curates the CLaudia label, which releases audio documents focussed on field-recordings and computer sound. CLaudia's first CD release was Compact Listen, a 2007 compilation featuring New Zealand artists curated for the High Street Project gallery.
Tearing up the ether and playing with the wreckage, Adam Willetts employs a variety of radio devices along with a homemade analog synth, creating a tactile and physical approach to electronic improvisation that incorporates the wireless space and electrosmog produced by these instruments into both their control and audible output.
Adam lives in Christchurch and has been performing and exhibiting throughout New Zealand and internationally since the late 1990s. He has performed at events such as Lines of Flight, 2006 and S3D, 2007, and will be performing at the International Symposium on Electronic Art in Sin gap ore this July.
For further information visit http://www.myspace.com/timcoster and http://adamwilletts.ethermap.org/.
Tonight, Saturday 7 June 2008, 8pm
The Physics Room $5
Auckland-based Tim Coster graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts from AUT in 2002, specialising in sculpture. Since then he has been practising mainly as a Sound Artist, working with audio releases, installations and performance. Coster uses field recordings and other gathered sounds, processed by computer and digital/analogue looping devices to create shifting delicate drone works. Collaborations include work with Mark Sadgrove, Nigel Wright, Andrew Scott (as Huzun), and Plains.
Tim curates the CLaudia label, which releases audio documents focussed on field-recordings and computer sound. CLaudia's first CD release was Compact Listen, a 2007 compilation featuring New Zealand artists curated for the High Street Project gallery.
Tearing up the ether and playing with the wreckage, Adam Willetts employs a variety of radio devices along with a homemade analog synth, creating a tactile and physical approach to electronic improvisation that incorporates the wireless space and electrosmog produced by these instruments into both their control and audible output.
Adam lives in Christchurch and has been performing and exhibiting throughout New Zealand and internationally since the late 1990s. He has performed at events such as Lines of Flight, 2006 and S3D, 2007, and will be performing at the International Symposium on Electronic Art in Sin gap ore this July.
For further information visit http://www.myspace.com/timcoster and http://adamwilletts.ethermap.org/.
Cuba Street Independence Day Fun-raising Gig
Friday 13 June
The progressive march of gentrification will be brought to a messy standstill next Friday at The Mighty Mighty when the people of Cuba Street will rise up and say "Enough is enough!""No more shall we be forced by The Man to turn down our music, comb our hair, tuck in our shirt and behave! No more shall we be forced out of our warehouses by dodgy money-hungry property developers & councillors intent on destroying the creativity which has kept Wellington an exciting place for the last 10 years!"Cover yourself in yoghurt and prepare for a fun-raising gig next Black Friday at The Mighty Mighty, featuring the powerful all-terrain maximum-energy booty-funk rescue-support-group "The Beat Squad", the manly thrust of Wellington's all-male-dance-ensemble-extraordinaire "The Leisure Steppers", and a special guest appearance from the Pie Minister of Cuba Street.Those who call Cuba Street their spiritual home are invited to get wild, loose and random next Friday, come rain or shine, on the street or up at the creative melting fondue pot which is Mighty Mighty."Save our bucket fountain of creativity!"Cuba Street Independence Day Fun-raiserThe Beat Squad & The Leisure SteppersMighty MightyFriday 13 June 9pm
From: NZpollution Joined: 22 hours ago Videos: 1
Added: June 02, 2008 (Less info)
Art New Zealand commentary series
Category: News & Politics
Tags:
art contemporary New Zealand Wellington NZ artist comment commentary analysis documentary web series advice community
still from Household Revisted: Peaceniks & Treehuggers
HOUSEHOLD REVISITED: PEACENIKS & TREEHUGGERS
Screening & Discussion: Sunday, June 8, 6-8 pm
Outpost is pleased to present a video screening and discussion of Household Revisited: Peaceniks & Treehuggers, a project about movement and ideology by Robby Herbst, by Robby Herbst, produced in conjunction with Allan Kaprow-Art as Life, on view at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA from March 23 through June 30, 2008. Peaceniks and Treehuggers is an event that occurred at a "lonesome dump out in the country". As per Kaprow's direction, there were no spectators, only participants. Originally an action dialogue between the Men, the Women and the People, for this version participants were asked to help re-write elements of the score by personifying with dress and movement world peace or environmental transformation. The happening included hands on workshops with choreographer Hana van der Kolk. The outcome will be presented as a film that documents the day-long event.
With:
Steve Anderson, Karl Erickson, Hector Gallegos, Charles Irvin, Cynthia Lee, Genevieve Liang, Carol McDowell, Tom Mckenzie, Jill Newman, Hana van der Kolk, Kimberly Varella, Sergio Zenteno.
Video By Lee Anne Schmitt with Robby HerbstCamera
Work by Jim Fetterley and Lee Anne Schmitt
Score by Robby Herbst and Hana van der Kolk
There will be a brief discussion of the Tejon Ranch land deal accompanying this event hosted at Open Gallery (a new gallery adjacent to Outpost) 6375-B N. Figueroa Street Los Angeles, CA 90042Gallery hours: Fri and Sat; 12 - 6 pm(until 9pm on the Second Saturday of each month in conjunction with NELA's art walk)
www.outpost-art.org
Dear contributors to the KIOSK archive,
dear friends, colleagues and associates it has been a long time, since you are supporting the Kiosk archive. Forsome of you it is more than 8 years now. The archive has been growing andexpanding, being shown 21 times since 2001, in 4 continents, basically allover the world. Today, the archive contains more than 6.000 publications bymore than 400 publishing projects and provides a very detailed,comprehensive and encompassing view on independent art publishing activitiesin the first decade of this century. I have been living with this archive for a long time now, travelling to NewZeland, Canada, Turkey, the USA and of course all over Europe, continouslyunpacking thousands of books, installing shows, inventorising etc. To be very honest: I have to admit that I got exhausted and feel, franklysaid, a bit tired of doing all this on my own. The work with the archive hasbeen very time consuming and the expenses did grow with the amount ofpublications (to give you an idea: more than 2,5 tons of books on 6pallettes).So, during the last year, I was thinking about a stationary base for theKiosk, where it could be publicly accessed, continued, and endure for somemore years. Through some lucky chances I have now found the ideal andperfect home for the archive: the Berlin “Kunstbibliothek³, a part of the“Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz³ in Berlin, Europes biggest library onart publications. The library is located at Potsdamer Platz, in the heart ofBerlin, next to the Nationalgalerie, the state library, and the philharmonicconcert hall. A very frequented and very well organised place.With this message I would like to let you know, that in the next 2 weeks, Iam handing over the complete archive (including all informations on thepublishing projects, my private archive, our correspondence regarding Kiosk)to the Berlin Kunstbibliothek. This is a big step for the collection and forme personally. And a new, true “home³ for the Kiosk.When negotiating with the library¹s director, Dr. Moritz Wullen, and thespecial curator, Dr. Michael Lailach, an excellent curator and connaissuerof artists¹ publications by the way, I was concerned in establishing thebest conditions possible for the future of the archive, which we have nowagreed on:1.) The archive will be kept together as a special collection, called “KIOSK Modes of Multiplication³. All the publications will be stored in onecompartment.2.) They will continue to collect our publications (and eventually add newprojects) until the year 2010, so the archive stays lively, vivid and willthen encompass a whole decade of independent art publishing.3.) They will inventorize and catalogue every publication within the archiveand integrate this digital data base in the libraries¹ OPAC system, whichmeans, that people can research within the archives catalogue through theweb everywhere in the world. Needless to say, that even small fanzines willbe part of this database, which usually does not happen. So, this is anamazing thing for all parts of the archive.4.) Dr. Michael Lailach, the curator for special collections will take careof the archive and keep the correspondence up with you. I have met himseveral times now, and I must say, he is a real specialist, a very niceperson, and the ideal care taker for the archive.5.) In 2009, the Kunstbibliothe will host a big (last) exhibition with andon the KIOSK archive. The library runs very beautiful and large exhibitionspaces where an overview on the history of the project and the contributingpublishing projects will take place. We are just discussing right now, whichform this exhibition will take. But it will be a very honourable andall-encompassing final presentation of the archive.6.) On this occasion, they will also publish a comprehensive cataloguepublication on the Kiosk, documenting it¹s development and the individualcontributors.7.) Besides these things, there will also be opportunities for showingsingle individual projects in the vitrines and special cabinets of thelibrary, which are frequented by a lot of users each day.Although being something like the self-acclaimed curator of the KIOSKarchive, I never felt that this would be my project. It has been a hugecollaborative and collective effort by all of us, sharing the same problems(for example distribution and presence) and sometimes the same ideas aboutmediating art in printed form. Through all your contributions, donating somany books to this archive, we managed to create a collaborative platform,documenting the bandwidth and variety of independent art publishing today. So, again, I do thank you all for your commitment and support. When negotiating with the library and making the above mentioned decisions, I was trying to act as a true attorney for the archive¹s needs and purposes. I think, we found a sustainable and very good solution for the future. Areal home for our archive! (And of course, Berlin seems to be the rightplace anyway...)So, how do we go on? What are the future proceedings? Although the Berlin Kunstbibliothek is a pretty big institution with aregular budget, it is not necessarily a rich place. In this sense, I would ask all of you who can, to continue providing books to the archive. I have asked the library to try to re-buy some of the missing elements of the Kiosk archive, books that have been stolen or lost etc., but the budget will not be big enough to buy everything that we publish. So, again, I would like to ask you to keep sending your new releases to the Kiosk archive, which ofcourse has a new address now:
Kunstbibliothek Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Dr. Michael LailachSammlung
“KIOSK³Matthaeikirchplatz 6D-10785 Berlin
Telefon +49 (0)30-266-3224
Telefax +49 (0)30-266-2958
Of course, from now on, it will be enough to send one copy of each publication (until now, I was always asking you for two copies forexhibition purposes). For all inquieries and information you can always contact Michael Lailach viahis e-mail address. Thanks so much for this. In regard to my own future in relation to the Kiosk archive, I can only tellyou, that of course I will accompany and advise the library and will also involve myself in preparing the exhibition and the publication next year. Apart from this, I will continue to organise exhibitions on art publications(see also below) and keep being involved in art publishing in many ways. So, if you would consider to send me some selections of your future publishingprojects once in a while, I would be the happiest man. And of course, Iwould like to ask you to keep me updated on your activities. Finally, I have a few further facts for you:Since this spring, a small selection from the KIOSK archive is touring theworld, as some kind of an ambassador of the big archive. I am calling theseexhibitons “Beyond Kiosk³. They present ca. 600 selected publications fromabout 300 publishing projects, based on a very personal choice, I admit,discussing an idea of contemporary art publishing and art mediation inprint. The first of these little shows has taken place in January at the ICAPhiladelphia, followed by a presentation at the Bonner Kunstverein in March. I do attach images of those presentations. Upcoming exhibitions “Beyond Kiosk³ will be: Beyond Kiosk III Centre, d¹art conteporain, geneva, Switzerland (openingJune 28)Beyond Kiosk IV - 23rd of September - 31st of October 2008 Les Silos - Pôle Graphisme, Graphic Design Department of the City ofChaumontBeyond Kiosk V - MUDAM, Luxembourg, March 14 to June 8th, 2009I do actually hope to see some of you at any of those occasions. That, I believe, is all for today. It has been a great time working on this thing with you guys. Thanks again for all the support and contributions, discussions andinspirations. I will be in touch again, at least when preparing the book.All the best for now and keep doing what you do. Sincerely, Christoph Keller------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Christoph Keller-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------StählemühleD-78253 Eigeltingen-MünchhöfGermanyTel.: +49 (0)7771 8755-0Fax: +49 (0)7771 8755-11http://us.mc511.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ck@staehlemuehle.dewww.staehlemuehle.de
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
