Calendar
Calendar
The HUM calendar features exhibitions & events by New Zealand arts practitioners working or living abroad.
Ben Cauchi: As above, so below
Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
26 October —
25 November 2017
Ben Cauchi's first solo exhibition in the US features ambrotypes made through the mid-19th-century collodion process. A master of collodion wet-plate photography, Cauchi investigates tensions between appearance and subtleties perceived below the surface, shifting away from a black and white reality toward a stranger, greyer space between truth and untruth. Referencing the histories of painting and photography, Cauchi's ambrotypes depict sheets of rumpled paper or draped veils, transferring their detailed, three-dimensionality onto a thin, flat sheet of glass.
Ben Cauchi was the recipient of the Creative New Zealand Visual Artists Residency at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin in 2012, where he has lived and worked since.
Ben Cauchi's first solo exhibition in the US features ambrotypes made through the mid-19th-century collodion process. A master of collodion wet-plate photography, Cauchi investigates tensions between appearance and subtleties perceived below the surface, shifting away from a black and white reality toward a stranger, greyer space between truth and untruth. Referencing the histories of painting and photography, Cauchi's ambrotypes depict sheets of rumpled paper or draped veils, transferring their detailed, three-dimensionality onto a thin, flat sheet of glass.
Ben Cauchi was the recipient of the Creative New Zealand Visual Artists Residency at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin in 2012, where he has lived and worked since.
Alexa Wilson presents: Gasping for Air, aka Breathless
Dixon Place; Centre for Performance Research; and Mothership, New York
24 October —
27 October 2017
B.U.G.S. aka Bitches Under Gross Surveillance is dancer/performer Mayfield Brooks and NZ artist/dancer Alexa Wilson. Mayfield and Alexa met two years ago in Germany and haven’t physically seen each other since, but decided to engage in a remote yet intimate dance collaboration across three continents that interrogates the apparatus of surveillance and it’s affect on our bodies and breath. Gasping for Air aka Breathless (The Politics of Breathing) is a performance collaboration exploring a transnational conversation, exchange, improvisation and dance between the artists/borders around the breathless body in response to the current climate of surveillance and political overwhelm. Performance times are: at Dixon Place in Manhattan in the "Crossing Boundaries" programme, at 24th October (7.30pm) and at the Center for Performance Research also on 24th October (8pm). The full work will also be shown at Mothership in Greenpoint on the 27th October (7.30pm.)
B.U.G.S. aka Bitches Under Gross Surveillance is dancer/performer Mayfield Brooks and NZ artist/dancer Alexa Wilson. Mayfield and Alexa met two years ago in Germany and haven’t physically seen each other since, but decided to engage in a remote yet intimate dance collaboration across three continents that interrogates the apparatus of surveillance and it’s affect on our bodies and breath. Gasping for Air aka Breathless (The Politics of Breathing) is a performance collaboration exploring a transnational conversation, exchange, improvisation and dance between the artists/borders around the breathless body in response to the current climate of surveillance and political overwhelm. Performance times are: at Dixon Place in Manhattan in the "Crossing Boundaries" programme, at 24th October (7.30pm) and at the Center for Performance Research also on 24th October (8pm). The full work will also be shown at Mothership in Greenpoint on the 27th October (7.30pm.)
Alexa Wilson: The Resistant Body
Ponderosa, near Berlin, Germany, NYC & New Zealand
17 July —
21 July 2017
This project series takes place across many platforms potentially including residencies, festivals, theatres, galleries, in the street, conferences and speak across different mediums. The workshop explores a transnational conversation, exchange, improvisation and dance facilitated by NYC based (Mayfield Brooks) and New Zealand/Berlin based artist (Alexa Wilson) around the notion of breathlessness. The work will be presented in Berlin, NYC and New Zealand : at K77 in Berlin at 8pm on 13th August, at Mothership Residency Salon NYC on 10th October, at CPR NYC on 24th October (see later listing.)
This project series takes place across many platforms potentially including residencies, festivals, theatres, galleries, in the street, conferences and speak across different mediums. The workshop explores a transnational conversation, exchange, improvisation and dance facilitated by NYC based (Mayfield Brooks) and New Zealand/Berlin based artist (Alexa Wilson) around the notion of breathlessness. The work will be presented in Berlin, NYC and New Zealand : at K77 in Berlin at 8pm on 13th August, at Mothership Residency Salon NYC on 10th October, at CPR NYC on 24th October (see later listing.)