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.
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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!!!
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