Two Exhibitions at Blue Oyster



Constellation, a new interactive light installation by Peter Trevelyan, is about to open at Dunedin's Blue Oyster Gallery and will run from August 21-September 8. Running concurrently at the gallery will be another exhibition, Elsewhere, by Brydee Rood, a self-inflating project swelling with linkages of changing ground, shrinking worlds, breeding and spreading.







For more info check out: http://www.blueoyster.org.nz/







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a library to scale

Opening this Friday at New Plymouth's Govett-Brewster is a library to scale, a photographic installation by Ann Shelton exploring historical narrative in relation to place and our insatiable desire to catalogue our surrounds. Shelton's exhibition examines the scrapbook collection of Taranaki bibliophile Frederick B. Butler whose collection contains more than 3,500 wallpaper-covered novels, filled with decades of clippings from local newspapers. Shelton recreates Butler’s library using 26 life-sized colour photographs, creating an eerie simulation or virtual encounter with the unique collection and giving a sense of its size and scale. The exhibition also features photographs of handwritten pages from Butler’s personal diaries in which he recorded the details of daily life in a similarly fastidious fashion. Shelton learnt of the collection during her residency at the Govett-Brewster in 2004.In 2006 the work won Shelton the Trust Waikato Contemporary Art Award.Director Rhana Devenport says "a library to scale in itself represents a highly personal form of archive that references an important and personal chronicle of Taranaki’s past. In its production and presentation Shelton is employing the same degree of accuracy, rigour and care that Butler did in the creation of his scrapbooks.”

Image caption: Ann Shelton Frederick B. Butler Collection, Puke Ariki, New Plymouth, Scrapbooks from: Hotels 1956 September – November to Petrol 1944 November – 1946 May. 2006


a library to scale runs at Govett-Brewster until September 9



FROM SWITZERLAND AND AUSTRALIA!

SCHIMPFLUCH To Play at Happy
Hailing from Zurich, the city where almost a century ago one of the original 20th century avant-gardes (1916-19) incited audience riots with theirBruitist (noise) literary peformances, Schimpfluch-gruppe is a decade-oldcollective comprising Rudolf Eb.er (Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock), Joke Lanz(Sudden Infant - absent), Dave Phillips, and Marc Zeier (g*park absent), whowork separately and together under the Schimpfluch banner to release audioworks, create exhibitions and perform. Revisiting key Dada strategies ofaggression, chance, spontaneity and concrete/raw form, Schimpfluch threadthe historic avant garde fascination with the limits of bodily experiencethrough the extremity of Viennese Actionism and the excesses ofperformance-based precursors to Industrial music, to arrive at theirparticular blend of noise assault, gestural precision, rhythmic destruction,dark humour and primal physicality.

Schimpfluch-gruppe play at Wellington's Happy (cnr Tory and Vivian St) this Friday,
28 July


25th june 2007
White Fungus to be Distributed in North America
White Fungus has just signed a contract with Disticor to distribute White Fungus in North America. The Ontario-based company has been running since the late 1970s and distributes some fantastic publications including arts magazines Afterfall, Beautiful Decay and Bomb. It also distributes The Onion and the New Internationalist. White Fungus is excited about the chance to reach North American audiences with experimental art, music and writing from New Zealand, Australia, Asia, the Pacific and beyond. White Fungus issue 8 will be out in mid-August. Stay tuned for more details.

For information concerning retailing White Fungus in North America, please contact Denise Boswell at Disticor: dboswell@disticor.com

June 1

Your Bad Self Louise Clifton

It's A Wonderful Tonight

On now at Wellington artist-run space Enjoy is It's a Wonderful Tonight, a new installation by Louise Clifton in which the artist has transformed the gallery into a soft cocoon of hushed lighting and ambient sound with a single on-screen projection. The installation sees Clifton continuing her ongoing project of photographic portraits based around a mysterious red-suited figure. The red suit also makes an appearance in Mestar's music video Konked Out which is currently exhibited as part of Radio with Pictures at the Hirschfeld Gallery.

It's a Wonderful Tonight runs at Enjoy until April 9.

The new Hamish McKay Gallery is now open at level one 39 Ghuznee Street, Wellington. The first exhibition features work by Australian artists Anne-Marie May and Rose Nolan.

www.hamishmckaygallery.com
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/
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