Greg Malcolm and Peter Trevelyan at White Fungus Relocation Party
Come to Enjoy this Saturday evening for a one night only performance by Greg Malcolm and a temporary light installation by Peter Trevelyan as White Fungus celebrates four-and-a-half years and ten issues in Wellington and its upcoming move to Taiwan.
White Fungus will be returning to Taichung City where its founders spent four years before beginning the magazine in 2004.
White Fungus Editor Ron Hanson says the team is looking forward to a new adventure and a chance to re-engage with Taiwan.
"Taiwan's a dynamic place and we're all about cross-cultural communication," Hanson says. "We look forward to getting involved in the local art scene and producing the next issue of the magazine."
White Fungus's Trip To Taiwan Is Kindly Supported by Asia New Zealand Foundation.
White Fungus Relocation Party
Greg Malcolm
Peter Trevelyan
DJ Powerfull and the Lost Weekend
Enjoy
Level 1, 147 Cuba St
Wellington
6:30-8:30
Saturday
May 2 Free
DISCUSSION
Is less more? Debating Apple on Moore
One Day Sculpture discussion
von Kohorn Room, Museum of Wellington
Thursday
23 April 2009
5.30-7pm
Free entry, all welcome.
Following on from Billy Apple’s One Day Sculpture, this discussion will pick up on Apple’s project, to assess the validity of his proposition “Less is Moore ” and canvass the history of Moore ’s sculpture and its place in his oeuvre. In association with the Museum of Wellington , this public forum will provide an opportunity for a range of key stakeholders to share their points of view and involve the public in debating the issues raised.
Panel speakers will include: Christina Barton (Director of the Adam Art Gallery and curator of the exhibition Billy Apple New York 1969-1973), Vikki Muxlow (Parks and Gardens, Wellington City Council); Jack Fry (Freelance conservator); Neil Plimmer (Wellington Sculpture Trust); Jeanne Macaskill (artist), Carolina Izzo (art conservator) chaired by David Cross (Litmus Research Initiative Director, Massey University ).
One Day Sculpture is led by the Litmus Research Initiative, Massey University with UK curator Claire Doherty and realised in partnership with arts organisations across New Zealand .
Billy Apple’s One Day Sculpture project Less is Moore was commissioned by the Adam Art Gallery , Victoria University of Wellington.
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ARTIST’S TALK
Billy Apple on New York
Adam Art Gallery
Friday 24 April
12-1pm
Billy Apple is a conceptual artist who is known for his rigorous investigation of the sites, systems and social relations that structure the art world. After studying graphic design in London and contributing to early pop art in Britain he left for New York in 1964. Apple lived there until 1990 before returning to New Zealand , where he continues to work and exhibit widely. Over a career spanning 50 years he has produced objects, text pieces, photographs, installations and undertaken actions that test definitions of art, challenge the structuring suppositions of artistic identity, expose the workings of the art system and demonstrate art’s permeability to larger social, political and economic forces.
Join artist Billy Apple and exhibition curator and Director of the Adam Art Gallery , Christina Barton , for a tour of the exhibition Billy Apple New York 1969-1973, which focuses on the short but intense period in which Apple ran a small not-for-profit gallery at 161 West 23rd Street as a venue for his own work and for others who shared his ambition to test the definitions of art making and find new models that would serve as an alternative to the commercial gallery system. This will be a rare opportunity to hear first-hand what it was like to be in New York at this time and to gain insights into the alternative art scene that fostered the radical practices that were galvanising the art scene in New York in the early 1970s.
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comic by terry bag
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White Fungus Reviewed At Lumiere Reader
Reviewed by Thomasin Sleigh
THE RECENT White Fungus is a big box of words. Good words. All arranged well and clearly and in tidy lines for ease of reading. It is great to see this publication reach issue number ten given the difficulties involved in sustaining niche publications in New Zealand. Part of its charm I guess is that White Fungus isn’t that ‘niche’ and actually caters to many tastes – Issue 10 includes poetry, prose, political critique, page works, historical snippets, art criticism and a tasty little run down on the 300BC cynic Diogenes to finish. Like a Greek after dinner mint.
The first article of White Fungus is often the best. This issue starts with a sensationalist story of early zoological collecting in colonial New Zealand. It is a deft account of the intrepid amateur zoologists who trekked around New Zealand in the mid 1800s hunting for remnants of the mythical bird, ‘the moa’. The story has a pleasing arc to it, and is made all the more potent by the almost stereotypical characters described by writer Terry Bag. There is the evil scientist back in England bent on fame and fortune who lies, schemes and belittles his colleagues. To balance the scales there is also the earnest, dedicated zoologist who faithfully retains specimens sent back to him from his son tramping around the wilds of New Zealand. It’s riveting stuff, a science soap opera with interesting conflations of fact, science, colonialist ideology and mythology.
Other highlights include some pointedly grotesque page works by Judy Darragh. Common visual tropes – a black panther, a naked woman, a still life of food – have been coated by the artist in trickles of twinky paint which pool and obscure the images. I was reminded of Dan Arps’ similarly subversive posters in recent shows; suggestive takes on romantic urban signs.
Read the rest at Lumiere Reader: http://lumiere.net.nz/reader/arts.php/item/2082
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Obama tops Bush's Record Military Budget By 20 Billion
Obama's Top Economic Adviser Is Greedy and Highly Compromised
By Matt Taibbi, True/Slant.
Among the payoffs Larry Summers received: $45K from Merrill Lynch days before he joined Obama's team. And it gets worse.
"But Summers, a leading architect of the administration's economic policies and response to the global recession, appears to have collected the most income. Financial institutions including JP Morgan, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch paid Summers for speaking appearances in 2008. Fees ranged from $45,000 for a Nov. 12 Merrill Lynch appearance to $135,000 for an April 16 visit to Goldman Sachs, according to his disclosure form." -- Washingtonpost.com
So I guess that $45,000 speaking fee from Merrill Lynch wasn't technically a bribe because Summers wasn't named to Obama's economic transition team until Nov. 24 — a full 12 days later. I'm sure Larry Summers had absolutely no inkling whatsoever that he was going to be one of the key advisers to the new administration on Nov. 12.
It likewise makes perfect sense that Merrill Lynch, a company just months removed from having to be rescued from bankruptcy by an 11th-hour, pseudo-state-subsidized buyout by Bank of America, would decide to spend $45,000 on a speaking appearance by Summers because, well, they really valued his economic expertise and his proven ability to rally the troops with his stirring rhetoric.
It certainly had nothing to do with the fact that a) it was eight days after a Democrat was elected to the presidency; b) Summers had a long history of being one of the key policymakers in Democratic Party politics; and c) Merrill was absolutely not going to survive more than a few more months unless taxpayers forked over another 20 billion or so to cover the giant hole in Merrill's balance sheet that was, at that time, still being hidden from Bank of America and its shareholders.
And how about that $135,000 appearance for Goldman Sachs in April, when Summers was already involved with Democratic Party politics again? That wasn't a surreptitious campaign contribution at all!
But you have to give Goldman credit: it sure is thorough. It literally leaves no stone unturned.
One has to love the sequence of events here. Back in 2004, Goldman chief Hank Paulson goes to SEC chief William Donaldson and petitions to have lending restrictions relaxed for the top five investment banks. Donaldson rolls over, the restrictions are relaxed, and it's a disaster, as the top five banks immediately overleverage themselves — two of the five, Bear Stearns and Lehman, would actually collapse, at least partially as a result of being insanely overleveraged.
In the midst of this disaster, Paulson is named Treasury secretary. He does nothing about the worsening financial crisis until it is far too late, then allows one of Goldman's biggest competitors, Lehman, to fail while at the same time intervening on a huge scale to save AIG, which just happens to owe Goldman a ton of money.
When AIG is bailed out, its government regulator is not in the room, but the new chief of Goldman, Lloyd Blankfein, is. In fact, Goldman Sachs ultimately receives about $13 billion of the money paid to AIG by the government in the bailout, reportedly getting paid 100 cents on the dollar for its AIG exposure, despite the fact that the bank claimed it wasn't going to suffer severe losses if AIG collapsed.
Later, another former Goldman executive, Ed Liddy, is installed as head of AIG -- which just happens to get bailed out twice more, the last time to the tune of $30 billion.
The last two bailouts of AIG take place after a former Goldman chief, Robert Rubin (who, incidentally, helped start this mess by ramming through a series of i-banker wet-dream deregulatory moves as Treasury secretary for Clinton in the 1990s), is named to the Obama transition team, joining Summers (who had already taken $135,000 from Goldman that year) and Timothy Geithner (a protege of another Goldman alum, John Thain, former president and chief operating officer and notorious scumbag).
When it comes time for new Treasury Secretary Geithner to name a chief of staff, he chooses Mark Patterson, who is less than a year removed from working as a lobbyist for … Goldman Sachs. Patterson's great contribution to society as a Goldman lobbyist was opposing a 2007 measure introduced in the Senate by presidential candidate Barack Obama to rein in executive compensation.
I remember watching Obama the presidential candidate give a speech in Mason City, Iowa, in 2007. Obama had made a big show of not having registered lobbyists working for his campaign, and he promised that lobbyists "won't work in my White House." The line was a hit and became part of Obama's stump speech. I must have heard it two dozen times.
A little over a year later, he put a registered lobbyist of a bailed-out investment bank into a job whose primary responsibility is administering bailout money.
It gets worse. According to a Glenn Greenwald piece I just read, even Gary Gensler is a former Goldman employee. That absolutely blows my mind. Genlser is Obama's choice to head the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, whose purview is the derivatives market. The CFTC was the battleground where ages ago Rubin, Summers, and then-Rubin aide Gensler teamed up to whack CFTC chief Brooksley Born, who had serious concerns about the burgeoning derivatives market, in particular the credit-default swap market. Rubin overturned Born's recommendations, and derivatives were freed from most regulation. That economic Alamo led almost directly to the AIG disaster.
Read the rest at Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/democracy/136008/obama%27s_top_economic_adviser_is_greedy_and_highly_compromised/
http://trueslant.com/
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Obama's Top Economic Adviser Is Greedy and Highly Compromised
By Matt Taibbi, True/Slant.
Among the payoffs Larry Summers received: $45K from Merrill Lynch days before he joined Obama's team. And it gets worse.
"But Summers, a leading architect of the administration's economic policies and response to the global recession, appears to have collected the most income. Financial institutions including JP Morgan, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch paid Summers for speaking appearances in 2008. Fees ranged from $45,000 for a Nov. 12 Merrill Lynch appearance to $135,000 for an April 16 visit to Goldman Sachs, according to his disclosure form." -- Washingtonpost.com
So I guess that $45,000 speaking fee from Merrill Lynch wasn't technically a bribe because Summers wasn't named to Obama's economic transition team until Nov. 24 — a full 12 days later. I'm sure Larry Summers had absolutely no inkling whatsoever that he was going to be one of the key advisers to the new administration on Nov. 12.
It likewise makes perfect sense that Merrill Lynch, a company just months removed from having to be rescued from bankruptcy by an 11th-hour, pseudo-state-subsidized buyout by Bank of America, would decide to spend $45,000 on a speaking appearance by Summers because, well, they really valued his economic expertise and his proven ability to rally the troops with his stirring rhetoric.
It certainly had nothing to do with the fact that a) it was eight days after a Democrat was elected to the presidency; b) Summers had a long history of being one of the key policymakers in Democratic Party politics; and c) Merrill was absolutely not going to survive more than a few more months unless taxpayers forked over another 20 billion or so to cover the giant hole in Merrill's balance sheet that was, at that time, still being hidden from Bank of America and its shareholders.
And how about that $135,000 appearance for Goldman Sachs in April, when Summers was already involved with Democratic Party politics again? That wasn't a surreptitious campaign contribution at all!
But you have to give Goldman credit: it sure is thorough. It literally leaves no stone unturned.
One has to love the sequence of events here. Back in 2004, Goldman chief Hank Paulson goes to SEC chief William Donaldson and petitions to have lending restrictions relaxed for the top five investment banks. Donaldson rolls over, the restrictions are relaxed, and it's a disaster, as the top five banks immediately overleverage themselves — two of the five, Bear Stearns and Lehman, would actually collapse, at least partially as a result of being insanely overleveraged.
In the midst of this disaster, Paulson is named Treasury secretary. He does nothing about the worsening financial crisis until it is far too late, then allows one of Goldman's biggest competitors, Lehman, to fail while at the same time intervening on a huge scale to save AIG, which just happens to owe Goldman a ton of money.
When AIG is bailed out, its government regulator is not in the room, but the new chief of Goldman, Lloyd Blankfein, is. In fact, Goldman Sachs ultimately receives about $13 billion of the money paid to AIG by the government in the bailout, reportedly getting paid 100 cents on the dollar for its AIG exposure, despite the fact that the bank claimed it wasn't going to suffer severe losses if AIG collapsed.
Later, another former Goldman executive, Ed Liddy, is installed as head of AIG -- which just happens to get bailed out twice more, the last time to the tune of $30 billion.
The last two bailouts of AIG take place after a former Goldman chief, Robert Rubin (who, incidentally, helped start this mess by ramming through a series of i-banker wet-dream deregulatory moves as Treasury secretary for Clinton in the 1990s), is named to the Obama transition team, joining Summers (who had already taken $135,000 from Goldman that year) and Timothy Geithner (a protege of another Goldman alum, John Thain, former president and chief operating officer and notorious scumbag).
When it comes time for new Treasury Secretary Geithner to name a chief of staff, he chooses Mark Patterson, who is less than a year removed from working as a lobbyist for … Goldman Sachs. Patterson's great contribution to society as a Goldman lobbyist was opposing a 2007 measure introduced in the Senate by presidential candidate Barack Obama to rein in executive compensation.
I remember watching Obama the presidential candidate give a speech in Mason City, Iowa, in 2007. Obama had made a big show of not having registered lobbyists working for his campaign, and he promised that lobbyists "won't work in my White House." The line was a hit and became part of Obama's stump speech. I must have heard it two dozen times.
A little over a year later, he put a registered lobbyist of a bailed-out investment bank into a job whose primary responsibility is administering bailout money.
It gets worse. According to a Glenn Greenwald piece I just read, even Gary Gensler is a former Goldman employee. That absolutely blows my mind. Genlser is Obama's choice to head the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, whose purview is the derivatives market. The CFTC was the battleground where ages ago Rubin, Summers, and then-Rubin aide Gensler teamed up to whack CFTC chief Brooksley Born, who had serious concerns about the burgeoning derivatives market, in particular the credit-default swap market. Rubin overturned Born's recommendations, and derivatives were freed from most regulation. That economic Alamo led almost directly to the AIG disaster.
Read the rest at Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/democracy/136008/obama%27s_top_economic_adviser_is_greedy_and_highly_compromised/
http://trueslant.com/
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Pogus releases Source Records 1-6 Music of the Avant Garde, 1968-1971: The digital reissue of the Source LP's on 3 CDs Pogus is extremely proud to reissue the recordings included in the seminal new music journal, Source: Music of the Avant Garde, Vols. 1-6, Issues 1-11, Source Records 1-6, 1967-1973. The original six ten-inch LP Source Records contained some of the most important experimental music of the nineteen-sixties to mid nineteen-seventies and they have now been reissued as a 3 CD set. Source ended publication in 1973, having published, since 1967, contemporary musical materials, scores, articles, interviews, photo essays and recordings over seven years, with up to 2000 subscribers to the semiannual journal: the subscribers avidly anticipated receiving two new and critically acclaimed issues each year during that period.
Most of the original tape masters for the records, after over forty years, have vanished or have seriously deteriorated; hence, we have carefully transferred, noise-reduced, and crackle-removed all the actual LP record tracks to the digital medium, then mastered to the compact disc format for this reissue: the result is an authentic recreation of the original LP, characteristic sound.
CD One - Source Records 1 and 2 Robert Ashley, The Wolfman; David Behrman, Wave Train; Larry Austin, Accidents; Allan Bryant, Pitch Out
CD Two - Source Records 3 and 4 Alvin Lucier, I am sitting in a room; Arthur Woodbury, Velox; Mark Riener, Phlegethon; Larry Austin, Caritas; Stanley Lunetta, moosack machine
CD Three - Source Records 5 and 6 Lowell Cross, Video II (B)/(C)/(L); Arrigo Lora-Totino, english phonemes; Alvin Curran, Magic Carpet; Annea Lockwood, Tiger Balm
http://www.pogus.com/
GuteSeiten - A New Kiosk of Independent Publications Starts in Hamburg
We are just crazy about magazines and fanzines - and we want to share our passion with you. The pabulum of the mainstream media industry is driving us crazy. Where is the spirit, the passion or at least some innovation? That’s the reason why we founded our own kiosk - a curated kiosk and magazine club for inspiring, creative and fascinating magazines and fanzines from all over the world. We believe that the only innovative and revolutionary spirit in new magazines is coming from the underground. Made by people with passion, and not by bureaucrats, analysts and all the other media whores. And there are still reams of amazing magazines out there. But you won’t find them at your local newspaper kiosk. Perhaps you’re lucky and have a well equipped bookstore near you. But mostly you have no chance to find these magazines. The aim of GuteSeiten is to promote, distribute, award, exhibit and finance these magazines.
Have a look at all the MAGAZINES, that we collected for you from all over the world. And if you like them, you can also order them immediately (free global shipping & handling for an order +40 Euro). But if you don’t want to buy them: just rent and read them! Subscribe to our ZINOTHEK and get new magazines and “classics” that are out of stock every month - delivered directly to your door! And there is even an “All you can read”-flatrate (but unfortunately currently only available in Germany).
And if you’re also a publisher: Participate in our annual AWARD - and contribute your magazine to our fast growing archive. Or get connected with other publishers, editorial designers, photographers, editors and zine lovers at our MEMBER section - because together we’re stronger!
Or just enjoy and get inspired by the creative force of independent media. Please let us know what you think, if something is missing and how we can improve. And by the way: Big props to our friends from the design studio gebrauchsgrafikundso who supported us from the first minute, designed and programmed this great website and helped to realize GuteSeiten. We almost worked one year on this project - and we really hope you like it!
http://www.gute-seiten.net/
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