07/11/06


Just kicking of at Enjoy in Wellington is
Hallways of Lives,
an exhibition by Rachel O’Neill pursuing the philosophical intersection between romance novels and Physics. Within the exhibition lie different arrangements, hopes and poetic sensations. The artist will be doing a performance at the Film Archive on Thursday, November 16 at 6pm, followed by an artist talk at Enjoy at 7pm.
Hallways of Lives runs until November 25.

For more info check out: www.enjoy.org.nz

Also happening at the Film Archive in Wellington this Friday, November 10 is a screening of My Father is Into Terrorism, a film by William Karel set in Paris in 1990 and based on terrorist events of that time. The film was written by journalist / author Clemence Boulouque who will be in New Zealand this month for the Belles Etrangeres Literary Festival.
Check out: www.ambafrance
My Father Is Into Terrorism starts at 7:30
Arrive earlier for drinks and nibbles

On Now At BATS
On at Wellington’s BATS Theatre until November 25 is a play directed by prolific young theatre director Jade Eriksen as one of this year’s STAB commissions. Arcane weaves together archival 1960 scripts from the wife of a Gisborne farmer with the communication systems of bee colonies and the forms involved in the Oracular establishments of the classical Greek period.
For more info go to www.theatreheuristic.co.nz

Greg Malcolm to Play Wellington Jazz Festival

Guitarist extraordinaire Greg Malcolm is set to perform as part of the Wellington Jazz Festival running Nov 2-11. Malcolm will be performing a selection of Steve Lacy tunes adapted especially for customized solo guitar. Inventive and innovative, Malcolm’s approach to the guitar incorporates everything from coiled springs to monkey wrenches, irreverently extending the scope of what a guitar may or may not be or can do. David Keenan of The Wire wrote of Malcolm’s music: "His customized instruments give him the reach of a miniature orchestra".

Greg Malcolm plays The Frontroom, 8:00pm, Thursday 9th, November.


25/10/06


The Invisible Reading Room

Running until October 29 at Sydney artist-run space First Draft is the second-ever exhibition of The Invisible Reading Room, a traveling and continually expanding archive of more than 500 independent publishing projects and 100 artists videos. Compiled by Sydney-based artist-run initiative The Invisible Inc, the archive’s first exhibition was held earlier this year at Melbourne’s Next Wave Festival.
For more info check out: www.theinvisibleinc.org.au

Also coming up in Sydney is the launch party for Australian independent arts magazine Runway Issue Eight: Trash. The party will be held this Sat. 28 October at MOP Projects.
Check out: www.runway.org.au


Climate Change and the Spanish Civil War

This November 4th has been dubbed "Climaction", a global day of action, participation and discussion about global warming and its implications. "Climaction" takes place in Auckland City at Aotea Square at 1pm. Organised by a large coalition of environmental, community, social and political organisations, the day will have speakers ranging from scientists and politicians to concerned citizens. The public is encouraged to come and show their solidarity and that they are serious about this issue.

New Zealand and the Spanish Civil War
Coming up this November 4-5 is a two-day seminar, New Zealand and the Spanish Civil War run by the Trade Union History Project. Beginning on 17 July 1936 with a military revolt against the democratically elected centre-left Popular Front Government, the War became the great ideological struggle of the 1930s. While the West maintained a "non-intervention" policy and fascist dictator Franco would win and remain in power until his death in 1975, historian and seminar speaker Peter Clayworth says one of the "few bright notes from this grim story was the example of international solidarity show shown by thousands of young, mostly working class people, who came voluntarily from around the world to assist the people of Spain to resist fascism".

New Zealand and the Spanish Civil War will include a number of talks by prominent speakers on issues of the war and the involvement of New Zealanders whether in the spheres of trade unionism, politics, literature or art. The seminar will also include a concert at Bar Bodega, a book launch, panel discussions and a party and barbeque, to be confirmed. The seminar will be preceded by a number of related film screenings at the Film Archive from November 1-4.
To register or find out more about the event, go to: www.tuhp.org.nz
For more information on the film screenings visit: www.filmarchive.org.nz
10/10/06
Photo: selina ou

Resist, a live art event devised by Australian arts group pvi collective was held recently in Chile outside the presidential palace as part of trans-versa, an exhibition of Australian and New Zealand art at Museo De Arte Contemporana, Santiago. Employing the ancient non-violent conflict resolution device of the tug-of-war, the artists invited members of the public to engage in resolving local disputes through an intimate symbolic power struggle. The event has been documented and is presented via a video diptych in the gallery space.Trans-versa is curated by Zara Stanhope and Danae Mossman. It runs at Museo De Arte Contemporana, Santiago, until November 10.


Last Chance To Enter National Drawing Award

Entries to the National Drawing Award need to be posted to ARTSPACE by this Friday, October 13. Organised by ARTSPACE, Auckland and the Physics Room, Christchurch, the Award aims to highlight the depth and skill of drawing practice in New Zealand. All entries will be exhibited at ARTSPACE and the Physics Room and judged by a jury of contemporary professionals, Brian Butler (Director of ARTSPACE), Heather Galbraith (Senior Curator, City Gallery, Wellington) and Danae Mossman (Director of the Physics Room). For more information plus entry forms go to: www.artspace.org.nz.
27/09/06
Lash, installation view, The Gus Fisher Gallery, 2005. Courtesy of the artist,
Starkwhite, Auckland and Kukje Gallery, Seoul

Two works by Auckland-based Korean artist Hye Rim Lee, Lash and Boom Boom: Super Heroine Super Beauty, are currently showing in Barcelona, Spain at Casa Asia as part of The Sea That Has Two Names: Video Art From Korea. Curated by Manu Park – artistic director of Busan Biennial – the exhibition features works by nine Korean artists projected onto the walls of Casa Asia’s exhibition halls. Lash was recently purchased by the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Gwacheon, Korea. The Sea That Has Two Names: Video Art From Korea runs at Casa Asia until 31 October.

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Third installment of sound performance series STATIC MANSION is set to kick off at Lyttelton’s Wunderbar for two dates: Saturday, 30 September and Thursday, 12 October. Featuring ten sound artists from throughout the country, expect two nights of sonic adventure incorporating hacked electronics, aural assaults and wayward processors.
For more information contact STATIC MANSION at staticmansion@gmail.com

Saturday 30 September 8:30pm - $5
Adam Willetts (Auck)
Sean Kerr (Auck)
The Hi-Aces (Chc/Wgtn)
Stanier Black-Five (Chc/UK)
Thursday 12 October 8:30pm - $5
Sam Hamilton (Auck)
Ben Spiers (Wgtn)
Andrew Weeks (Wgtn)
Tim Coster (Auck)
17/09/06

Just opened at Wellington’s the Engine Room is A Brief History of Time, the final show of the gallery’s 2006 programme. Curated by gallery manager Kim Patton, the exhibition features work by Wellington artists Amy Howden-Chapman, Shay Launder and Tao Wells exploring strategies for making art in a climate of rising political activism. Whether skeptic or believer, the artists promise affronts, asides and personal accounts of modern living. A Brief History of Time runs at the Engine Room until November 3.


Some other local happenings...


Craftwerk returns to Wellington this Labour Day, Mon, Oct 23. The locale is the Southern Cross Tavern and the time is 2-5pm. White Fungus will be there along with Tim Bollinger’s Attitude Problem. The full range of White Fungus back-issues will be available. For more info check out;
www.craftwerk.co.nz


Also coming soon to Wellington is the City Library’s new zine collection. For now you can check out the webpage: www.wcl.govt.nz/popular/zines.html

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Improvisational Music at Happy

Friday 20th sees Happy Bar and Venue play host to the resurfacing of The Idle Suite. The improvisational rock outfit – featuring a cast of members drawn from The Stumps and Cloudboy - has been out of action for several years but is soon set to release its debut record Up Two Sticks Rd on Last Visible Dog. Joining the festivities will be Temple of Heaven, a new guitar duo pairing Pseudo Arcana main-man Antony Milton and Campbell Kneale in his guise as the Black Boned Angel. The mysterious two-piece Pale Fire is also expected to be making an appearance. www.myspace.com/happybar

06/09/06


Kicking off soon at Auckland's ARTSPACE is Ack, an exhibition of new work by Peter Robinson. Robinson’s new show reanimates and introduces motifs into a complicated web of Maori, Pakeha and contemporary art iconography. A major catalogue examining the artist’s work during the past 15 years will be published by ARTSPACE and Clouds in conjunction with ACK and released in Febuary 2007. Ack runs at ARTSPACE from 16 September-14 October. There is an opening at 6pm onFriday, 15 September.


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Wellington avant-punk performance group the Mr Sterile Assembly are set to embark on a 19 day-tour of South East Asia. Beginning at Tunestone Studio in Kuala Lumpur on September 9, the band will play 10 performances, winding up at the GausHaus in Singapore on September 23. A new promotional CD has been recorded for the tour and is now available for listening at;
http://www.myspace.com/mrsterileassembly
29/08/06


Window Shopping in Brick City, an exhibition by Daniel Malone, is now showing at WINDOW, a contemporary art project space located by the foyer of the Auckland University Library. Employing a range of different media, including sculpture, video, photography and painting, Malone explores the present moment in China, a time of "hyperactive modernisation". The exhibition builds on work began in 2002 when Malone was studying at the Beijing Culture and Language University in China.

Window Shopping in Brick City runs until September 22. For more information check out:
www.window.auckland.ac.nz






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New Zealand-based web label Postmoderncore is set to release punk necromancers The Shambolic’s debut studio album: First I Kill You. Then I Steal Your Power. Once described as "bad music for bad people", the album is finally available.

Check out www.postmoderncore.com for more details.

23/08/06


Now running at Govett Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth is Len Lye ~ Body English, an exhibition looking at the close relationship between text and image in Lye's work. Curated by Tyler Cann, Body English features Lye's Surrealist photograms, poetry and films, as well as six hand-printed books for which he designed the covers, including his own No Trouble. For the first time, Lye's poetry will sit alongside some of these works, shedding new light on their curious imagery.

Len Lye ~ Body English is on show at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery until Ocober 1.




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Happy Bar and Venue – Wellington’s premier purveyor of live experimental music and performance – is celebrating its third birthday this week. The Tory Street music haunt promises three nights of musical revelry in honour of the occasion, kicking off Wednesday night and running through to Friday. The line up so far is as follows:

Wednesday 23 Aug:
Gerard crewdson back from oz
BITtrio – Bridget Kelly, Taylor Taylor and Isaac Smith
Alphabethead

Thursday 24 Aug:
Onomatopoeia – Dave Ward, Ian Downer and Isaac Smith
Manimanima
Some reorganisation of Cleatus
DJ Day G Day
And The Mystery Guests

Friday 25 Aug:
The Deconstruction Unit
Pleasing Mummy
The Not Quite Quiet Quior
Alphabethead
DJ Day G Day
DJ Elon

Check out: www.myspace.com/happybar

Also, web-based label Postmoderncore has just released the first "studio" recording of punk rockers The Shambolics. Recorded September 2004 in Brooklyn, Wellington, the album, First: I Kill You. Then: I Steal Your Power, has been described as "Bad music for Bad People".

Visit www.postmoderncore.com for more details.


04/08/06
Dane Mitchell, Dunedin Public Art Gallery (Specimen 001), (2003),

ARCHIVING FEVER

Just opened at Wellington's Adam Art Gallery is Archiving Fever, an exhibition exploring memory, archiving, fiction and the impulse to build narrative. Curated by Emily Cormack, the show features the work of nine artists from New Zealand, Italy, Austria and Singapore, mixing in the mediums of video, photography and installation.

Mexican artist Gaston Ramirez, whose video work Gotcha feautures as part of the exhibition, will be performing an intervention, Urban (Play) Traces, on Upper Cuba Street this Monday, 7 August at 1pm. Highlighting the changing face of the city and its many layers of history, Ramirez will be performing the intervention in rememberance of the houses and artist studios that have been demolished or removed to give way for Wellington's upcomming Inner City Bypass. Archiving Fever runs until 1 October.
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