A Centre for Art
Level 3, room 5
Archilles House
28 June--14 July
opens 27 June
Wednesday, 20 June 2007
rachel & sonya are having a show....
A Centre for Art
Level 3, room 5
Archilles House
28 June--14 July
opens 27 June
Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Sunday, 17 June 2007
documenta 12 2007 news - Ai Weiwei
1,001 Chinese as living art in Germany
For the most expensive single artwork in the 52-year history of the Documenta expo, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has invited 1001 of his compatriots …
The Chinese visitors are kitted out just like world tourists anywhere: shorts, t-shirts, comfortable shoes, purses secured to belts or wrists and with their own bottles of water. All of them have digital cameras and take shutterbug pictures of everything memorable and even not memorable. But these are no tourists. They are art. For the most expensive single artwork in the 52-year history of the Documenta expo, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has invited 1,001 of his compatriots to perform in Kassel as part of his piece Fairytale.As far as Ai has revealed, they do not have to do anything, just be in Kassel. The rooms are divided up with sheets of white cloth, resembling a temporary military hospital.In each of the resulting cubicles, there are five beds on each side with a narrow table between the two rows. A bowl of apples, bottles of water and Chinese newspapers are on the table.There is a 'little privacy', admitted Ai. Literally so! A space smaller than a telephone callbox has been created in a corner of each cubicle with a chair and reading lamp inside.The arrival of about 100 journalists sweeps away all vestiges of privacy, with curtains opened and TV cameras aimed at the performers.'It's all right. We are a work of art,' said Gong Tran of Beijing philosophically. She did not find the situation upsetting. It was far too interesting for that. And she had always wanted to visit Germany.
Friday, 15 June 2007
Wednesday, 13 June 2007
Wednesday, 6 June 2007
introducing : TIMELORDS
Image from Boris Dornbusch's "Rebuilding Tardis"
at the "Between" Exhibition
(18 May 2007 - 19 May 2007 The George Fraser Gallery).
TIMELORDS is a project researching coherences between space, memory and ancient customs in relation to our common unconsciousness of pop culture.
see more at umriss.blogspot.com
Tuesday, 5 June 2007
process made manifest
Eve Armstrong @ Te Tuhi - 12 May 2007 - 17 June 2007
Image from Eve Armstrong's COMFORT ZONE - introduced in the Te Tuhi blurb as an 'aesthetic to develop a new interior for Te Tuhi's main foyer space. Merging together a motley range of discarded furniture to create entirely new seating, COMFORT ZONE demonstrates Armstrong's desire to 'use things which are around, putting them together in such a way that that process of making is evident'.
Monday, 4 June 2007
Sunday, 3 June 2007
dot dot dot
The Search for The Fountain of Prosperity
The story is as much mystery and fantasy as it is economics or history, or even sculpture for that matter. Like the quest itself, the search is steeped in superstition and magic. Forecasting economic growth is, after all, a form of divination or scientific fortune-telling and, like all predictions, remains permeable to the irrational.
Michael Stevenson
Dot Dot Dot 13
PDF available http://www.dextersinister.org/library.html?id=61
CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco
department
LAUREN WINSTONE
new ceramic work:
GROUP WITH NOTEPAPER HOLDER
27th May - 10th June
department
41 Ponsonby Road
Auckland
new ceramic work:
GROUP WITH NOTEPAPER HOLDER
27th May - 10th June
department
41 Ponsonby Road
Auckland
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