Calendar
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The HUM calendar features exhibitions & events by New Zealand arts practitioners working or living abroad.
NZPQ, 'Ka emiemi' at Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2023
Holešovice Market, Prague, Czech Republic
08 June —
18 June 2023
This exhibition is co-created by eight artists from diverse practice backgrounds, reflecting the performance landscape in Aotearoa. Ka emiemi, the title of this work, was given to the project by Te Matahīapo before the artists began working together. It contains the curatorial intention for NZPQ23 and describes coming together to assemble, to create. Moving together in time, our ways of making amalgamated into material outcomes, creating moments of slippage between each other.
This collective has navigated new working relationships, sharing practice and time together to produce an offering informed by many different approaches to performance design. These fissures of difference and desire seep into the installation through opportunities for mechanical and human disruption. The work, like geological processes, is vast, slow, intimate and eruptive all at once. Material processes unfold through a series of mechanical activations—gathering, resonating, sweeping, exploding. As separate chaotic functions, these processes approach each other over time, negotiating boundaries; an assemblage of actions and material traces.
This exhibition is co-created by eight artists from diverse practice backgrounds, reflecting the performance landscape in Aotearoa. Ka emiemi, the title of this work, was given to the project by Te Matahīapo before the artists began working together. It contains the curatorial intention for NZPQ23 and describes coming together to assemble, to create. Moving together in time, our ways of making amalgamated into material outcomes, creating moments of slippage between each other.
This collective has navigated new working relationships, sharing practice and time together to produce an offering informed by many different approaches to performance design. These fissures of difference and desire seep into the installation through opportunities for mechanical and human disruption. The work, like geological processes, is vast, slow, intimate and eruptive all at once. Material processes unfold through a series of mechanical activations—gathering, resonating, sweeping, exploding. As separate chaotic functions, these processes approach each other over time, negotiating boundaries; an assemblage of actions and material traces.
Len Lye, KINETISMUS: 100 Years of Electricity in Art
Kunsthalle Praha, Prague, Czech Republic
22 February —
20 June 2022
The scope of Kinetismus: 100 Years of Electricity in Art spans the early artistic use of motorised movement and artificial light through to advanced computational models, information technology, and digital art.
Exploring how electricity has transformed artistic practice from the start of the 20th century to the present day, four key areas are presented: cinematography, kinetic art, cybernetic art, and computer art and will feature over ninety works of art by several generations of artists from all over the world, including independent figures and members of emblematic groups such as Bauhaus, GRAV, Dvizhenie, ZERO, and teamLab, and New Zealand artist Len Lye.
The scope of Kinetismus: 100 Years of Electricity in Art spans the early artistic use of motorised movement and artificial light through to advanced computational models, information technology, and digital art.
Exploring how electricity has transformed artistic practice from the start of the 20th century to the present day, four key areas are presented: cinematography, kinetic art, cybernetic art, and computer art and will feature over ninety works of art by several generations of artists from all over the world, including independent figures and members of emblematic groups such as Bauhaus, GRAV, Dvizhenie, ZERO, and teamLab, and New Zealand artist Len Lye.
Sam Trubridge at the Prague Quadriennial
Prague Quadrennial, Czech Republic
06 June —
16 June 2019
Within the context of the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, the Exhibition of Countries and Regions is a competitive exhibition where the essence of the current developments in performance design, collaboration, and the temporal transformative energy of scenography are at the very heart of the curatorial vision.
New Zealand artist Sam Trubridge presents his performative work Night Walk over the course of the Quadrennial, every day at 12:00. A large inflated black sphere is powered by the steps of the performer/walker rolling across the Prague Exhibition Grounds and Stromovka Park.
Within the context of the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, the Exhibition of Countries and Regions is a competitive exhibition where the essence of the current developments in performance design, collaboration, and the temporal transformative energy of scenography are at the very heart of the curatorial vision.
New Zealand artist Sam Trubridge presents his performative work Night Walk over the course of the Quadrennial, every day at 12:00. A large inflated black sphere is powered by the steps of the performer/walker rolling across the Prague Exhibition Grounds and Stromovka Park.