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




_______________________________________________________________
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
_______________
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:
_______________________
iiii Records presents:
_______________--
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

__________________--
________________________________
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
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)