Calendar
Calendar
The HUM calendar features exhibitions & events by New Zealand arts practitioners working or living abroad.
Kate Lepper in 'Shonky: The Aesthetics of Awkwardness'
Various venues, Various dates
20 October 2017 —
15 September 2018
Mac, Belfast : 20.10.2017 — 14.01.2018
DCA, Dundee: 10.03.2018 — 27.05.2018
Bury Art Museum and Sculpture, Bury: 23.06.2018 — 15.09.2018
Hayward Touring’s latest Curatorial Open exhibition explores the nature of visual awkwardness through the work of artists and architects. Shonky is a slang term meaning corrupt or bent, shoddy or unreliable, standing here for a particular type of visual aesthetic that is hand-made, deliberately clumsy and lo-fi, against the slick production values of much contemporary art.
The exhibition proposes a more celebratory definition of ‘shonkiness’ and showing how it can be used for critical purposes in the visual arts to explore issues including gender, identity, beauty and the body. Curated by John Walter, the show opens at the MAC in Belfast before embarking on a national tour to Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) and Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre.
Mac, Belfast : 20.10.2017 — 14.01.2018
DCA, Dundee: 10.03.2018 — 27.05.2018
Bury Art Museum and Sculpture, Bury: 23.06.2018 — 15.09.2018
Hayward Touring’s latest Curatorial Open exhibition explores the nature of visual awkwardness through the work of artists and architects. Shonky is a slang term meaning corrupt or bent, shoddy or unreliable, standing here for a particular type of visual aesthetic that is hand-made, deliberately clumsy and lo-fi, against the slick production values of much contemporary art.
The exhibition proposes a more celebratory definition of ‘shonkiness’ and showing how it can be used for critical purposes in the visual arts to explore issues including gender, identity, beauty and the body. Curated by John Walter, the show opens at the MAC in Belfast before embarking on a national tour to Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) and Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre.