monday may 21
Hany Armanious - Blindness


Morphic Resonance at the City Gallery
Now on at Wellington’s City Gallery is Morphic Resonance, the most comprehensive solo showing of the work of Sydney-based artist Hany Armanious in New Zealand to date. Curated by Heather Galbraith, the show features several of Armanious’ most well-known works, playfully installed in the downstairs gallery space. Among that the sights to be seen are the artists’ infamous exploding foam muffins, his neo pagan sculptures and a bubble-making contraption endlesslessly recording its data into an accumulating paper stream. Response to the work has already been strong so if you’re in Wellington, be sure not to miss this one.
Morphic Resonance runs at the City Gallery until 29 July.

www.citygallery.org.nz






Richard Von Sturmer at the Film Archive
After ten years in a Zen Buddhist Monastery in upstate New York, former New Zealand pop-song writer Richard Von Sturmer began making experimental short films. A selection of 26 such films can currently be seen at The Film Archive in Wellington, Tanka Films – visual and text interpretations of tanka, the unrhymed Japanese verse of five lines. Von Sturmer will be giving a live performance at the Archive this Friday 25 May at 6pm.

www.filmarchive.org.nz




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saturday 5 may

et al.: the fundamental practice, 51st Venice Biennale 2005
Photographer: Jennifer French


Reorder, Regroup, Restore

Just opened at Auckland’s Artspace is the first-ever showing in New Zealand of arts collective et al.’s 2005 Venice Biennale exhibition the fundamental practice in a reordered, regrouped, restored version. Following the so-called controversy and its antagonistic reception by a rear guard New Zealand media, finally the public can judge the exhibition for itself. The installation has already been reconfigured and exhibited abroad at galleries including The Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, and the Saatchi & Saatchi Gallery, New York. But strangely, in light of the exhibition’s success, the Arts Council (Creative New Zealand) has pulled its backing and won’t be sending a New Zealand exhibition to this year’s 52nd Venice Biennale. Et al.’s installations have been described as control-rooms or testing plants for theories. The project deals with ideologies and their structures of delivery, testing and provoking, allowing us (restricted) access to the test-zone.

The fundamental practice – reorder, regroup, restore runs at Artspace until June 9. An article about the Venice exhibition can be found in White Fungus issue 4.

http://www.etal.name/
Sunday 29th April

painting by Gerard Crewdson
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iiii records launch party

Next Thursday May 3 at Happy (Wellington) sees the long awaited launch of new local record label iiii Records, and the unveiling of the iiii shop. The launch kicks off at 6pm with refreshments and will be followed by performances from Phil Dadson, Jeff Henderson, Daniel Beban and Chris Connor. The launch sees the release of seven new albums by New Zealand artists featuring cover art by Gerard Crewdson and layout by White Fungus:
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iiii Records presents:
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iiii1 The Colourful Language of...The DODECAHEDRONS
iiiiII The ELEPHANTMEN - Let You Entertain Me
iiiiIII THE METABOLISTS - Rapture of the Deep
iiiiIV The DECONSTRUCTION UNIT - The Consolation of Philosophy
iiiiV THE DOMINION CENTENARY CONCERT BAND - Triumph in the Capital City
iiiiVI LOCUM - Metal Bird and Horror Bell
iiiiVII LITTLE WET HORSE - The Desert of Lapping Dogs

Happy Bar and Venue is located at the intersection of Vivian and Tory Street, Wellington

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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

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