A River Runs Through It: Creative Currents Through Aotearoa and Japan with Grace Mirams
By Jennifer Pastore
22.09.2023
This summer Grace Mirams spent six weeks visiting studios and sharing her exhibition I’m at the river, I’ll meet you by the sea at Gallery Crossing in Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. After speaking with Mirams in Tokyo and visiting the exhibition, writer Jennifer Pastore considers how Mirams’ practice and interests resonate with a region of Japan steeped in craft and exchange.
This summer Grace Mirams spent six weeks visiting studios and sharing her exhibition I’m at the river, I’ll meet you by the sea at Gallery Crossing in Minokamo, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. After speaking with Mirams in Tokyo and visiting the exhibition, writer Jennifer Pastore considers how Mirams’ practice and interests resonate with a region of Japan steeped in craft and exchange.
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Rosanna Raymond, Liveworks 2023: OF THE TIME
19 October —
29 October 2023
Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia
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Reuben Paterson, Nga Meka Tui Kura (Epilogue)
25 August —
30 September 2023
Bergman Gallery, Rarotonga, Cook Islands
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Ilke Gers, That Time
22 June —
05 November 2023
Tabakalera, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
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Charles Olsen, Grey Silence at ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival
12 October —
15 October 2023
Haus für Poesie and Kino in der Kulturbrauerei, Berlin, Germany
Dear Ella
By daniel ward
05.09.2023
In a letter to Aotearoa New Zealand artist Ella Sutherland, Berlin-based poet daniel ward reflects on the sensual role of printing technologies and the passage of queer narratives in Sutherland’s practice during her twelve-month residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.
In a letter to Aotearoa New Zealand artist Ella Sutherland, Berlin-based poet daniel ward reflects on the sensual role of printing technologies and the passage of queer narratives in Sutherland’s practice during her twelve-month residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.
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Talanoa Forum: Moana Rising
10 October —
12 October 2023
Powerhouse Ultimo, Sydney, Australia
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Nikau Hindin, 35th Bienal de São Paulo – choreographies of the impossible
06 September —
10 December 2023
Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion, São Paulo, Brazil
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Denise Batchelor, Cinema 3/99: The wonders of water
23 September —
26 November 2023
CCCB, Barcelona, Spain
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Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux, Collective
05 October 2023 —
11 February 2024
Art Gallery of Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada
Feeling, pressed
By Ash Kilmartin
18.08.2023
Zooming-in to personal memory and bodily encounter, Rotterdam-based artist Ash Kilmartin writes on the work of Alexis Hunter (1948–2014) in An Emergency Exit Sealed Shut at Kunstverein, Amsterdam.
Zooming-in to personal memory and bodily encounter, Rotterdam-based artist Ash Kilmartin writes on the work of Alexis Hunter (1948–2014) in An Emergency Exit Sealed Shut at Kunstverein, Amsterdam.
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Emma McIntyre, An echo, a stain
21 September —
28 October 2023
David Zwirner, New York, USA
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Telly Tuita and Yvonne Todd in Ballarat International Foto Biennale
26 August —
22 October 2023
Art Gallery of Ballarat and other venues, Ballarat, Australia
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Amit Noy and family, A Big Big Room Full of Everyone's Hope
07 September —
01 October 2023
Théâtre de la Ville—Les Abbesses in Paris and National Ballet of Marseille, France
Writing
Ngā Huarere o Te Moana Nui a Kiwa: Pacific Weathers
By Melody Nixon
01.08.2023
US- and Aotearoa-based writer Melody Nixon responds to digital artworks in Te Moana Nui a Kiwa; a weather station in the World Weather Network project featuring works by over twenty artists from Aotearoa and Oceania. One of twenty-eight stations in the project, the station featured online artworks by Kalisolaite ‘Uhila, Denise Batchelor and Maureen Lander, The Breath of Weather Collective, and a collaboration between Janine Randerson, Ron Bull, Rachel Shearer, Stefan Marks and glaciologist Heather Purdie. Nixon discusses how a selection of these works may reorient our approaches to the climate crisis.
Ruth Buchanan, SKIN IN THE GAME
14 September 2023 — 07 January 2024
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
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Nicole Hone, Plant Fever: Towards a Phyto-centred design
29 April —
31 October 2023
Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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Sam Hamilton with Clara Chon, Dr. Tru Paraha, Mere Tokorahi Boynton, Rhonda Tibble, Vaimaila Urale, Te Moana Meridian
25 August —
07 October 2023
Converge 45 at Oregon Contemporary, Portland, USA
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Talia Smith, Primavera 2023: Young Australian Artists
09 September 2023 —
04 February 2024
Modern Contemporary Art in Australia, Sydney, Australia
Writing
Semantics of a City
By María Inés Plaza Lazo
26.06.2023
In May, publisher María Inés Plaza Lazo visited Ruth Buchanan’s A garden with bridges (spine, stomach, throat, ear), a walk-in sculpture and the result of a multi-part collaboration with the New Patrons that brings the synapses between all elements of Mönchengladbach, Germany, to new impulses.
Tia Ansell, Lottozero residency
01 September — 29 October 2023
Lottozero, Prato, Italy
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Maddie Leach, Fountains Failures Futures: The afterlives of public art
28 September —
29 September 2023
Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Writing
On Measuring Distance: THE FIELD
By Helen Hughes
12.07.2023
Art historian Helen Hughes examines how THE FIELD—featuring work by Ming Ranginui, Shannon Te Ao and Shiraz Sadikeen, and curated by Tamsen Hopkinson at Gertrude Contemporary in Naarm Melbourne—inhabits the spaces between categories and haunts institutional memories through a unique curatorial approach.
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soft and weak like water
By Amy Weng
13.06.2023
Reporting from a visit to South Korea, curator Amy Weng writes about how works by Yuki Kihara and Mataaho Collective connect the ambitious themes and ideas of the 14th Gwangju Biennale to specific histories from their homes in Aotearoa New Zealand and Moana-nui-a-Kiwa.