thursday 19th april

Darcy Lange Bradford Schools

Darcy Lange Survey At Adam Art Gallery

Now showing at Wellington’s Adam Art Gallery is a survey of mixed media work by pioneering New Zealand artist Darcy Lange (1946-2005). The exhibition, Darcy Lange: Study of an artist at work includes the artist’s video, film, sculpture and photographic work focusing on his seminal documentary studies of people at work. Study of an artist at work is curated by Mercedes Vicente and was first shown at New Plymouth’s Govett-Brewster earlier in the year. Mercedes says: "Lange had a remarkable early career; he enjoyed the recognition of critics and curators as well as his artist peers. He was very much part of the 1970s international avant-garde and video art scene in London and New York, however he remained a marginal figure in New Zealand."

Darcy Lange: Study of an artist at work shows at Adam Art Gallery until May 13. www.vuw.ac.nz/adamartgal

Artists’ Film Festival Extended to April 20

The New Zealand Film Archive (Wellington) has extended the popular Artists’ Film Festival until April 20. Curated by Paula J Booker, the festival brings together contemporary video work from all over New Zealand. Among the 20 new works are pieces by Wellington artists Tao Wells, Amy Howden-Chapman, Terry Urbahn, Daniel du Bern & Courtney Lucas, Raised by Wolves, Sarah Jane Parton and Sandy Gibbs.

www.filmarchive.org.nz

thursday 12th april

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image by Simon Adams

New Zealand Comics Weekend Returns

All are invited to the third annual New Zealand Comics weekend to be held at Wellington’s Southern Cross from April 21-22, 10am till late. There will be exhibitions of comics, stalls by independent publishers, and a panel discussion lead by local comic expert Dr Tim Bollinger. New comics by artists including Dylan Horrocks, Brent Willis, Matt Tait and Matt Hunkin will be available. Also, don’t miss the opening at Graphic Comic Shop (106 Cuba Street) which will include the launch of PictoZine 2, NZ’s latest and most precocious comics anthology. The organisers promise there will be plenty of liquor so come and have a drink on them.

A New Book Of Fiction By Jason Shelley

We recently received in the mail The Romance by Jason Shelley featuring illustrations by Vishal Shah, and published by London’s Tlon Books. The first page promised that there would be ‘absolutely no fucking cocks allowed in this prose’. That promise was broken by the second page. The text is a piece of work written by Shelley at the beginning of the century. One 24-hour sitting of writing and four years of breathing space later, and the compact hardback has finally been released, two years ago. The artists stress that each page is an individual work of art. Essentially the story is about one man and his love for his craft. For more info check out: www.tlon.co.uk

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