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The HUM calendar features exhibitions & events by New Zealand arts practitioners working or living abroad.
Darcy Lange, Videography as Social Practice by Mercedes Vicente
Available to order online
21 November 2023 —
21 November 2028
Darcy Lange, Videography as Social Practice, by Mercedes Vicente, is a critical monograph of a pivotal figure in early analogue video. Trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art, Lange developed a socially engaged video practice with remarkable studies of people at work in industrial, farming, and teaching contexts that drew from conceptual art, social documentary and structuralist filmmaking. Lange saw in portable video a democratic tool for communication and social transformation, continuing the legacy of the revolutionary avant-garde projects that merged art with social life and turned audiences into producers.
Darcy Lange, Videography as Social Practice, by Mercedes Vicente, is a critical monograph of a pivotal figure in early analogue video. Trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art, Lange developed a socially engaged video practice with remarkable studies of people at work in industrial, farming, and teaching contexts that drew from conceptual art, social documentary and structuralist filmmaking. Lange saw in portable video a democratic tool for communication and social transformation, continuing the legacy of the revolutionary avant-garde projects that merged art with social life and turned audiences into producers.
Paul Cullen Archive, Proposition #2: Octagon Room
Royal Observatory, Greenwich, UK and online
31 January 2023 —
31 January 2025
A virtual installation in the Octagon Room at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, England. This interactive, virtual project realises a speculative proposal made by artist Paul Cullen in 2011 to install works from his r/p/m (revolutions per minute) series around the globe at historical centres for scientific study (sites that the artist had visited and researched).
In Proposition #2: Octagon Room, Cullen proposes situating four r/p/m sculptures with motorised rotating components, including plastic gherkins, orange, pear and a bucket at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England. Propositions #1, #3, #4, and #5 locate artworks at the Eisinga Planetarium in Franeker, the Netherlands; Musick Memorial Radio Station on Naupata Reserve, Aotearoa; Linnaeus Garden in Uppsala, Sweden; and the Alhambra in Granada, Spain.
The Paul Cullen Archive will realise propositions 1–4 as virtual installations between December 2022 and March 2023.
A virtual installation in the Octagon Room at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, England. This interactive, virtual project realises a speculative proposal made by artist Paul Cullen in 2011 to install works from his r/p/m (revolutions per minute) series around the globe at historical centres for scientific study (sites that the artist had visited and researched).
In Proposition #2: Octagon Room, Cullen proposes situating four r/p/m sculptures with motorised rotating components, including plastic gherkins, orange, pear and a bucket at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England. Propositions #1, #3, #4, and #5 locate artworks at the Eisinga Planetarium in Franeker, the Netherlands; Musick Memorial Radio Station on Naupata Reserve, Aotearoa; Linnaeus Garden in Uppsala, Sweden; and the Alhambra in Granada, Spain.
The Paul Cullen Archive will realise propositions 1–4 as virtual installations between December 2022 and March 2023.
Brian Fuata, 'of a house besieged (preposition tweaked)'
The Kitchen Video Viewing Room, Online
27 January 2023 —
27 January 2025
The Kitchen OnScreen is a platform that hosts the online programme of New York City’s oldest nonprofit spaces, The Kitchen, following the closure of its physical space in March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
From January 2023, the Video Viewing Room features Brian Fuata’s of a house besieged (preposition tweaked) (2020), a video project inspired by Lydia Davis' short story called In a House Besieged, a work long-admired by Fuata, which looks at the “paradoxical fact that we are experiencing mass disconnect in an age of hyper-connectivity.” The presentation is organised, and features a text, by curator Matthew Lyons.
The Kitchen OnScreen is a platform that hosts the online programme of New York City’s oldest nonprofit spaces, The Kitchen, following the closure of its physical space in March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
From January 2023, the Video Viewing Room features Brian Fuata’s of a house besieged (preposition tweaked) (2020), a video project inspired by Lydia Davis' short story called In a House Besieged, a work long-admired by Fuata, which looks at the “paradoxical fact that we are experiencing mass disconnect in an age of hyper-connectivity.” The presentation is organised, and features a text, by curator Matthew Lyons.
Paul Cullen Archive, Digital r/p/m proposition #1: Planetarium
Eise Eisinga Planetarium, Franeker, the Netherlands and online
22 December 2022 —
22 December 2025
A virtual installation at the Eise Eisinga Planetarium, Franeker, the Netherlands. This interactive, virtual project realises a speculative proposal made by artist Paul Cullen in 2011 to install works from his r/p/m (revolutions per minute) series around the globe at historical centres for scientific study (sites that the artist had visited and researched).
For Proposition #1: Planetarium, Cullen proposed situating r/p/m artworks, including Lost (2007), The Orange Theory (2007), and Geographer [1] and [2] (1995), at the Eise Eisinga Planetarium in Franeker, the Netherlands. Propositions #2, #3, #4 and #5 locate artworks at the Octagon Room in the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England; Musick Memorial Radio Station on Naupata Reserve, Aotearoa; Linnaeus Garden in Uppsala, Sweden; and the Alhambra in Granada, Spain.
The Paul Cullen Archive will realise propositions 1–4 as virtual installations between December 2022 and March 2023.
A virtual installation at the Eise Eisinga Planetarium, Franeker, the Netherlands. This interactive, virtual project realises a speculative proposal made by artist Paul Cullen in 2011 to install works from his r/p/m (revolutions per minute) series around the globe at historical centres for scientific study (sites that the artist had visited and researched).
For Proposition #1: Planetarium, Cullen proposed situating r/p/m artworks, including Lost (2007), The Orange Theory (2007), and Geographer [1] and [2] (1995), at the Eise Eisinga Planetarium in Franeker, the Netherlands. Propositions #2, #3, #4 and #5 locate artworks at the Octagon Room in the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England; Musick Memorial Radio Station on Naupata Reserve, Aotearoa; Linnaeus Garden in Uppsala, Sweden; and the Alhambra in Granada, Spain.
The Paul Cullen Archive will realise propositions 1–4 as virtual installations between December 2022 and March 2023.