Calendar
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The HUM calendar features exhibitions & events by New Zealand arts practitioners working or living abroad.
Sarah Rose, A Bonnie Way
Hospitalfield and various venues across Scotland, UK
14 March —
03 May 2024
Hospitalfield and Travelling Gallery present A Bonnie Way: Unravelling the seducation of the countryside, a travelling exhibition featuring artists who have been involved in the Residencies at Hospitalfield: three artists who all explore their experiences of life and conversations in rural and semi-rural places.
Featuring sculpture, moving image, and sound, each artist brings a different approach and experience touching upon themes such as hidden histories, pictoral representation, the more-than human, energy networks, traditional music, memory, who is included/excluded, industrial landscapes, and the urgently felt impacts of the climate crisis.
The artworks are accompanied by an index of community-based publications, connecting their questions, manifestos, and propositions of people in rural places from across Scotland. A Bonnie Way opens at Hospitalfield from 14—16 March and between March and May 2024 will tour to venues throughout Scotland, including Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Shetland, Moray, Inverness, Dundee and Angus.
Hospitalfield and Travelling Gallery present A Bonnie Way: Unravelling the seducation of the countryside, a travelling exhibition featuring artists who have been involved in the Residencies at Hospitalfield: three artists who all explore their experiences of life and conversations in rural and semi-rural places.
Featuring sculpture, moving image, and sound, each artist brings a different approach and experience touching upon themes such as hidden histories, pictoral representation, the more-than human, energy networks, traditional music, memory, who is included/excluded, industrial landscapes, and the urgently felt impacts of the climate crisis.
The artworks are accompanied by an index of community-based publications, connecting their questions, manifestos, and propositions of people in rural places from across Scotland. A Bonnie Way opens at Hospitalfield from 14—16 March and between March and May 2024 will tour to venues throughout Scotland, including Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Shetland, Moray, Inverness, Dundee and Angus.
Sarah Rose, Plastic: Remaking our World
V&A Dundee, Dundee, Scotland
29 October 2022 —
05 February 2023
Plastic has shaped our daily lives like no other material: from packaging to footwear, from household goods to furniture, from cars to architecture. A symbol of carefree consumerism and revolutionary innovation, plastic has spurred the imagination of designers for decades. Today, the dramatic consequences of the plastic boom have become obvious, and plastic has lost its utopian appeal. Never has it been more important to understand the 150-year history of this contested material, known to be essential yet superfluous, life-saving and life-threatening, seductive yet dangerous.
Plastic: Remaking Our World features prototypes, new technologies, and cutting-edge materials as designers grapple with a material that has changed our world. It includes a new work by Aotearoa artist Sarah Rose, made from re-melting and joining HDPE plastic drink bottle lids, resembling the armour of a crocodile, suspended in the entrance of the V&A.
Plastic has shaped our daily lives like no other material: from packaging to footwear, from household goods to furniture, from cars to architecture. A symbol of carefree consumerism and revolutionary innovation, plastic has spurred the imagination of designers for decades. Today, the dramatic consequences of the plastic boom have become obvious, and plastic has lost its utopian appeal. Never has it been more important to understand the 150-year history of this contested material, known to be essential yet superfluous, life-saving and life-threatening, seductive yet dangerous.
Plastic: Remaking Our World features prototypes, new technologies, and cutting-edge materials as designers grapple with a material that has changed our world. It includes a new work by Aotearoa artist Sarah Rose, made from re-melting and joining HDPE plastic drink bottle lids, resembling the armour of a crocodile, suspended in the entrance of the V&A.
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.