01/04/07Kiosk at The Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver

Kiosk – stage 19 – opens at Artists’ Space in New York


Kiosk, a traveling archive of independent publication projects on contemporary art, has just opened at Artists’ Space in New York. This is the 19th exhibition of the continually evolving collection run by German publisher / curator Christoph Keller. Aiming to provide an overview of the whole bandwidth and variety of independent publishing activities, the archive now features more than 5,300 publications, including periodicals, zines, video and audio projects.


Kiosk was in New Zealand last year where it was twice exhibited, at ARTSPACE in Auckland and The Physics Room in Christchurch. In has since been hosted by the Emily Carr institute in Vancouver. Kiosk’s 20th exhibition will be in Minneapolis during September at Midway Contemporary (dates to be confirmed). In January it will return to Europe where it will be presented in Rennes, France and then at the State Library of Berlin in summer of ’08. Keller is currently discussing with the State Library – the biggest library in Germany – about the possibility of handing over the archive to its collection where it would be permanently available.


Kiosk runs at Artists’ Space in New York until May 12.

www.artistsspace.org

An interview with Christoph Keller talking about Kiosk and independent publishing in general can be found in White Fungus issue 6.


Dialect at The Engine Room



The image above is a photo of some paintings by Arie Hellendoorn that was part of recent exhibition Dialect at the Engine Room. Taking various different looks at the use or medium of portraiture the exhibition featured work by Hellendoorn, Julian Bishop, Daniel Shaw and Eugenius Van Penseel. The Engine Room was established in late 2005 on the Massey Wellington University Campus by the School of Fine Arts with a goal of creating a new site for innovative and experimental art.

Access to the Engine Room is via Entrance C, upper Taranaki St, Eastern Corner Block 1


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Black Boned Angel and Friends to perform at the SFBH

A night of experimental sound and noise is set to ensue at Wellington’s San Francisco Bath House this Saturday, March 7. Line-up features disco/doom merchants The Postures, Wellington Noise stalwarts and rising stars The Stumps, local post-rockers The Dukes of Leisure and experimental sound group Black Boned Angel, comprising Campbell Kneale (Birchville Cat Motel), Jules Desmond and James Kirk.
www.sfbh.co.nz
14/03/07


Moving Mao

Opening soon at Hong Kong coffee bar & desserterie Epoch is The Moving Mao, an experimental video projection by Henry Chu. The work involves an image of Mao that blurs and warps in a sensory response to its audience, continuing the artist's work in converting body movements into visual images. Chu has been working as an arisit in Hong Kong since 1998 when he returned from New Zealand after completing an Engineering degree at the University of Auckland. The Moving Mao is organised by Videotage a Hong Kong-based umbrella organisation for promotion, presentation and circulation of new media art. Check out http://www.vt.org.hk



Shake the Foundation at Aaron Lawrence Gallery

Wellington's Aaron Lawrecne Gallery plays host this Friday
to a duo performance by Thierry Monnier (France-guitar/electronics)
and Antony Milton (Wellington-violin/electronics). Shake The Foundation kicks
off 8pm sharp. Koha. BYO cushion. www.myspace.com/algallery


White Fungus on World TV

In 2006 Ling-Ling Liang interviewed White Fungus for Auckland's World TV.

The clip can now be seen on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb67NvpEJvU

01/03/07
Personal slur 1998

TOM KREISLER AT GOVETT-BREWSTER

Just about to open at New Plymouth’s Govett-Brewster is Tom Kreisler, the first comprehensive survey of Tom Kreisler (1938-2002), an artist critic Wystan Curnow calls "possibly New Zealand’s most under-recognised important painter". Curated by son Aaron Kreisler, the exhibition features more than 40 large-scale paintings, altered ready-mades, works on found materials, drawings and notebooks in a reconsideration of the artist’s work and its impact on fellow artists, writers and critical thinkers across New Zealand.

Tom Kreisler runs at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery 3 March-13 May.

Set to coincide with the opening of Tom Kreisler is the launch of comma dot dogma, a 196-page monograph of Kreisler’s work with four new texts by Wystan Curnow, John Hurrell, Deborah Cain and Aaron Kreisler. The book is the first to be released by Umbrella, the Wellington-based print and publication design company.

For more info on Tom Kreisler or to purchase comma dot comma checks out: www.tomkreisler.com

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UpStage Call For Submissions

UpStage Festival is calling for submissions by artists keen to do on-line performances to a global audience using www.upstage.org.nz, a site purpose-built for live interactive performance events. The festival will take place on-line in UpStage and be screened at the New Zealand Film Archive in Wellington.
To submit a proposal, email the following information to info@upstage.org.nz:
.Working tile of your cyberformance and 3-4 sentences about it
. names and locations of people involved
. brief background / bios (not more than 300 words)
. preferred time (in your local time) for presentation on 7 July
. contact email and postal address
Deadline is 31 March
David Kilgour and The Heavy Eights to tour NZ and Australia

Legendary Dunedin musician / songwriter David Kilgour and his band The Heavy Eights are about to kick off a tour of New Zealand and Australia to support Kilgour’s new album, The Far Now. The new album - recorded in Dunedin but mastered in Nashville - is out this February on Arch Hill Records in New Zealand and Merge Records in the US. A US tour is also planned for later in 2007



Check out David Kilgour and The Heavy Eights

Feb 3 Arc Café Dunedin
Feb 8 The Dux Christchurch
Feb 15 SFBH Wellington
Feb 16 Latitude Live Napier
Feb 17 Schooner Tavern Auckland
Mar 1 Metro Sydney
Mar 2 Ricks Bar Brisbane
Mar 6 Corner Hotel Melbourne
For more info go to www.myspace.com-davidkilgour



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The New Dowse About to Open

After an 18 month 6 million dollar revamp, Lower Hutt’s public art gallery The Dowse is finally about to re-open Saturday, February 17 with an opening party followed by a month-long festival of classes by international artists, workshops, performances and lectures.

The opening party kicks off 12pm on Saturday, February 17.

12pm: Opening Ceremony Batucada & The Titan Hutt City Brass Band
2:30pm: Ricky Boyd & The Boomshack Band Loonesco – Fringe Street Performers
VJ – Video Artist Showcase
4pm: Real Hot Bitches Danceathon
5:30pm: DJ Duke Willis
6pm: All Star Dawnraid Entertainment Showcase
7:30 pm: Hollie Smith & Band
check out www.dowse.org.nz

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Perilous – A Summer Circus in Civic Square

Featuring two outdoor trapeze rigs, live music, rolling workshops and roving performances by stilters, jugglers and adagio acts, Perilous – a summer circus – will be occupying Wellington’s Civic Square this Sunday, January 28, 12-5pm, sponsored by Summer City. White Fungus will be holding a stall with the full-range of back-issues available plus comics and other art publications.

www.myspace.com/perilouscircusfestival

White Fungus Issue 7
Out Soon


White Fungus Issue 7 is set to be released. The bright red new issue will be the biggest yet with articles on New Zealand artist Yvonne Todd, Australian artist Hany Armanious, Japanese Noise pioneer Merzbow and an interview with LA writer and filmmaker Chris Kraus talking about her new novel Torpor and growing up in Wellington in the 1970s.


There will also be new drawings by Peter Robinson, a short story by Wellington writer Hamish Low, an in-depth history article by Tim Bollinger: Strange Days on Lake Rotomahana: The End of the Pink and White Terraces, plus much more…

The magazine will be available at New Zealand retailers December 15 and at international retailers about a week later.


White Fungus Release Party and Fizz Factory Premier

A release party for the new issue will be held at Wellington’s Happy Bar and Venue this Thursday, December 14, at 8pm. Music will be provided by Jeff Henderson, DJs Ace Hurt and Bek Coogan (Cortina) and the Noise Machine.

Also, there will be the premier screening of new experimental short film Fizz Factory starring Jeremy Randerson and set at the iconic and historical Foxton Fizz Factory that Randerson took over earlier in the year. The film features a soundtrack by Rowan Laing including the saxophone of Jeff Henderson and music by German composer Hans Otte, courtesy of Pogus Productions (US) and Radio Bremen (Germany).

Party is Free Entry, White Fungus Issue 7 will be on sale.

On now at Wellington’s The Walrus Gallery – cnr Jessie and Taranaki St – is Contemporary Artifacts, an exhibition of new work by Sandy Rodgers running until December 12. Rodgers’ work explores the Maori and Pakeha histories drawing upon maps, illustrations and other archival materials.



Exit Dunedin


Exit Dunedin - a recent project organised by Wellington artist John Borley – undertook the task of proving this year’s graduates of Dunedin’s School of Fine Art with detailed critical responses to their work from a team of invited arts professionals. Inspired, in part, by a 2002 project Static that took place in Liverpool, Exit sought to deal with the issues and problems confronting art students moving from the protected environment of the art school into the professional realm by giving students a direct experience of public reception of their work. To see the reviews check out:


http://buro.net.nz/exitdunedin
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
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