Calendar
Calendar
The HUM calendar features exhibitions & events by New Zealand arts practitioners working or living abroad.
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.
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.
Yuki Kihara, 'Avant et après: Gauguin’s final words' conference
online
23 June —
24 June 2023
Supported through the Paper Project initiative of the Getty Foundation, this online conference brings together scholars from all over the world to give a wide-ranging selection of papers focusing on Avant et après, including – amongst others – Gauguin’s literary influences, the Hiva Oa environment in which he was writing at the end of his life, and details about the making of the book which only became apparent once it could be studied at close quarters.
Events are held on Friday 23 June, 8.45am – 1.00pm BST, and Saturday 24 June, 12.25pm – 5.45pm BST, with Yuki Kihara speaking about her project Paradise Camp at 2.40pm. Free to attend, bookings are essential.
Supported through the Paper Project initiative of the Getty Foundation, this online conference brings together scholars from all over the world to give a wide-ranging selection of papers focusing on Avant et après, including – amongst others – Gauguin’s literary influences, the Hiva Oa environment in which he was writing at the end of his life, and details about the making of the book which only became apparent once it could be studied at close quarters.
Events are held on Friday 23 June, 8.45am – 1.00pm BST, and Saturday 24 June, 12.25pm – 5.45pm BST, with Yuki Kihara speaking about her project Paradise Camp at 2.40pm. Free to attend, bookings are essential.
Maree Horner, Enigma of Life
Artdoc Photography Magazine, online
06 June —
06 December 2023
Life is full of wonders, miracles, and riddles. We all know that our rational minds are often not apt to understand the many bewildering aspects of our lives. Photography is the most direct art form to express our often-ambiguous relation to the wonders we encounter.
Maree Horner's digital photograph Augmented harvest (2021–22) is included in Artdoc's online exhibition in which creative photographers show their interpretation of the enigma of life.
"Augmented harvest explores the potential of particular forms from a potato harvest to work as actors in a photo series that plays with the slippage between a staged vintage studio portrait and still life photograph. Investigating the enigmatic relationship between female and male, I find, endlessly fascinating. Although augmented, enhancements are slight and only to create an other-worldly effect." – Maree Horner
Life is full of wonders, miracles, and riddles. We all know that our rational minds are often not apt to understand the many bewildering aspects of our lives. Photography is the most direct art form to express our often-ambiguous relation to the wonders we encounter.
Maree Horner's digital photograph Augmented harvest (2021–22) is included in Artdoc's online exhibition in which creative photographers show their interpretation of the enigma of life.
"Augmented harvest explores the potential of particular forms from a potato harvest to work as actors in a photo series that plays with the slippage between a staged vintage studio portrait and still life photograph. Investigating the enigmatic relationship between female and male, I find, endlessly fascinating. Although augmented, enhancements are slight and only to create an other-worldly effect." – Maree Horner
Paul Cullen Archive, Proposition #4: Linnaeus
Linnaeus Garden, Uppsala, Sweden and online
31 March 2023
A virtual installation for the Linnaeus Garden in Uppsala, Sweden, Proposition #4: Linnaeus includes a written concept, site images and selected r/p/m sculptures from the late artist Paul Cullen. However, unlike propositions #1 and #2, he does not include an annotated floor plan indicating the placement of works.
The artist's concept reads: "Carl Linnaeus [1707–1778] was responsible for this garden during his tenure at Uppsala University. Linnaeus was a Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician who laid the foundations for binomial nomenclature used in the classification of living things. Within the Linnaeus garden is a pool which will be integral to this project. Linnaeus is a development of the water circulation component of Recent Discoveries [1993] in which water was pumped from a waterproofed cardboard box to a fountain in the gallery courtyard. Water from the fountain flowed into a glass tank returning to the box inside the gallery via a second hose. The Linnaeus project will locate a submersible water pump in the garden pool which will pump water to a container inside the Linnaeus Museum. Water from the museum container will return to the pool via a hose and table mounted fountain. Hoses, tanks and tables employed in the project will carry graduated markings while rulers (metric) will be deployed in the propping and support of hoses where this is required." — Paul Cullen, 2011. Linnaeus Hubs room will be launched on 31 March 2023.
A virtual installation for the Linnaeus Garden in Uppsala, Sweden, Proposition #4: Linnaeus includes a written concept, site images and selected r/p/m sculptures from the late artist Paul Cullen. However, unlike propositions #1 and #2, he does not include an annotated floor plan indicating the placement of works.
The artist's concept reads: "Carl Linnaeus [1707–1778] was responsible for this garden during his tenure at Uppsala University. Linnaeus was a Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician who laid the foundations for binomial nomenclature used in the classification of living things. Within the Linnaeus garden is a pool which will be integral to this project. Linnaeus is a development of the water circulation component of Recent Discoveries [1993] in which water was pumped from a waterproofed cardboard box to a fountain in the gallery courtyard. Water from the fountain flowed into a glass tank returning to the box inside the gallery via a second hose. The Linnaeus project will locate a submersible water pump in the garden pool which will pump water to a container inside the Linnaeus Museum. Water from the museum container will return to the pool via a hose and table mounted fountain. Hoses, tanks and tables employed in the project will carry graduated markings while rulers (metric) will be deployed in the propping and support of hoses where this is required." — Paul Cullen, 2011. Linnaeus Hubs room will be launched on 31 March 2023.
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.
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.
Robbie Motion, Bodily Incarnations
Nomadic Art Gallery, Online
13 September —
30 October 2022
"Bodily Incarnation", a term coined by Deleuze's in his interpretation of the work ("The logic of Sensation") of English painter Francis Bacon, brings to mind the idea of descent (the spirit coming down) and flesh (the spiritual clothed in the body). Descent implies a movement in time and body, a destination. The seven drawings from Wellington-based artist Robbie Motion on display catapult the spectator into a bizarre and dream like environment where a serene play between attraction-repulsion, time-space, motion-stilness and body-mind arises.
"Bodily Incarnation", a term coined by Deleuze's in his interpretation of the work ("The logic of Sensation") of English painter Francis Bacon, brings to mind the idea of descent (the spirit coming down) and flesh (the spiritual clothed in the body). Descent implies a movement in time and body, a destination. The seven drawings from Wellington-based artist Robbie Motion on display catapult the spectator into a bizarre and dream like environment where a serene play between attraction-repulsion, time-space, motion-stilness and body-mind arises.
Iain Cheesman, Think Objects Think
Nomadic Art Gallery, Online
10 May —
16 June 2022
On the occasion of Iain Cheesman's new book Think Objects Think, The Nomadic Art Gallery is pleased to announce an online presentation of new in-and-outdoor sculptures by the Auckland-based artist. The shelf artworks, included in his book and this exhibition, are juxtaposed with two large outdoor sculptures that can be visited at the artist's place at specific to be announced times.
On the occasion of Iain Cheesman's new book Think Objects Think, The Nomadic Art Gallery is pleased to announce an online presentation of new in-and-outdoor sculptures by the Auckland-based artist. The shelf artworks, included in his book and this exhibition, are juxtaposed with two large outdoor sculptures that can be visited at the artist's place at specific to be announced times.
Kim Pieters, Is the sky blue
Nomadic Art Gallery, Online
30 April —
11 June 2022
Kim Pieters' solo exhibition Is the sky blue brings together an installation with paintings from 2019 and an audio-visual work. The artworks, produced in the artist's inner-harbor studio in Ōtepoti/Dunedin, New Zealand, are informed by a deep engagement with a strand of European philosophy that deals with the shape of life, from Spinoza through Deleuze, as by her own living. The works on display are specifically inspired by Maurice Blanchot's book The Infinite Conversation.
Kim Pieters' solo exhibition Is the sky blue brings together an installation with paintings from 2019 and an audio-visual work. The artworks, produced in the artist's inner-harbor studio in Ōtepoti/Dunedin, New Zealand, are informed by a deep engagement with a strand of European philosophy that deals with the shape of life, from Spinoza through Deleuze, as by her own living. The works on display are specifically inspired by Maurice Blanchot's book The Infinite Conversation.
Sione Tuivailala Monu, Raymond Sagapolutele and Edith Amituanai in Ocean Breeze
The Nomadic Art Gallery, Online
15 January —
08 March 2022
James Earnest Vivieaere was a legendary New Zealand artist of Cook Island/Maori heritage who passionately pushed Contemporary Pacific Art to international heights. In 1994-95 Vivieaere curated Bottled Ocean, an exhibition of New Zealand artists of Pacific Island descent that was shown at a number of metropolitan galleries throughout Aotearoa. Many of the then showing artists are now household names in the Pacific art lexicon and paved the way for generations of artists to come.
The online exhibition Ocean Breeze takes its cue from the groundbreaking exhibition and explores the conceptual legacy of Bottled Ocean through the eyes of artists working in lens-based practices today. Ocean Breeze explores the complex notions of place and identity and provides a road map along which viewers can travel in parallel worlds and discover stories of artists floating in the ever-evolving space “between all things which defines us and makes us part of the unity that is all”. Through the exhibited photographs and commissioned audiovisual work the implicit negotiation between cultural identities are made explicit while at the same time the public interest in the colourful otherness of contemporary Pacific art through a multifaceted lens is questioned.
James Earnest Vivieaere was a legendary New Zealand artist of Cook Island/Maori heritage who passionately pushed Contemporary Pacific Art to international heights. In 1994-95 Vivieaere curated Bottled Ocean, an exhibition of New Zealand artists of Pacific Island descent that was shown at a number of metropolitan galleries throughout Aotearoa. Many of the then showing artists are now household names in the Pacific art lexicon and paved the way for generations of artists to come.
The online exhibition Ocean Breeze takes its cue from the groundbreaking exhibition and explores the conceptual legacy of Bottled Ocean through the eyes of artists working in lens-based practices today. Ocean Breeze explores the complex notions of place and identity and provides a road map along which viewers can travel in parallel worlds and discover stories of artists floating in the ever-evolving space “between all things which defines us and makes us part of the unity that is all”. Through the exhibited photographs and commissioned audiovisual work the implicit negotiation between cultural identities are made explicit while at the same time the public interest in the colourful otherness of contemporary Pacific art through a multifaceted lens is questioned.
Stella Corkery, Brendan McGorry, Billy Apple, Fiona Connor, Fiona Pardington, Gordon Walters, Gretchen Albrecht, Kāryn Taylor, Kate Newby, Natasha Wright, Robert Jahnke and Ronnie van Hout at Explore Sydney Contemporary
Sydney Contemporary, Sydney, Australia
11 November —
21 November 2021
Sydney Contemporary, Australasia’s Premier Art Fair, presents Explore Sydney Contemporary online From 11–21 November 2021.
With 80 participating galleries from Australia and New Zealand, Explore presents a digital edition of Sydney Contemporary: experience the Fair and buy art anywhere, anytime. Featuring Aotearoa artists Stella Corkery, Brendan McGorry, Billy Apple, Fiona Connor, Fiona Pardington, Gordon Walters, Gretchen Albrecht, Kāryn Taylor, Kate Newby, Natasha Wright, Robert Jahnke and Ronnie van Hout!
Sydney Contemporary, Australasia’s Premier Art Fair, presents Explore Sydney Contemporary online From 11–21 November 2021.
With 80 participating galleries from Australia and New Zealand, Explore presents a digital edition of Sydney Contemporary: experience the Fair and buy art anywhere, anytime. Featuring Aotearoa artists Stella Corkery, Brendan McGorry, Billy Apple, Fiona Connor, Fiona Pardington, Gordon Walters, Gretchen Albrecht, Kāryn Taylor, Kate Newby, Natasha Wright, Robert Jahnke and Ronnie van Hout!
Dane Mitchell, Post hoc on NTS Radio
NTS Radio, online
01 August 2021 —
01 August 2022
At the heart of Post hoc is a spoken word list of vanishings, extinctions and disappearances. Post hoc is an inventory of loss in the form of an unfathomably long list, read each morning on NTS Radio by an artificial intelligence entity named Amy. The vast list spans an incomprehensible range of subjects. This strange amalgam of types of things momentarily gains form — ghostly reminders of what once was — that is now gone.
Fossilised on the NTS radio waves, Post hoc is a vast tomb of things that our present moment sits on top of. The list read over the airwaves confronts the notion that in the very act of naming, power and ownership are exerted over things in the world. Naming also becomes a tool for conjuring: through a speech-act each entity is called-up to the present moment, from vanished wonders of the world to disappeared sounds; extinct languages to things that melted. The project reflects on what disappears from our visibility and brings into focus the cost of a constant demand for progress and the resulting losses and extinctions.
At the heart of Post hoc is a spoken word list of vanishings, extinctions and disappearances. Post hoc is an inventory of loss in the form of an unfathomably long list, read each morning on NTS Radio by an artificial intelligence entity named Amy. The vast list spans an incomprehensible range of subjects. This strange amalgam of types of things momentarily gains form — ghostly reminders of what once was — that is now gone.
Fossilised on the NTS radio waves, Post hoc is a vast tomb of things that our present moment sits on top of. The list read over the airwaves confronts the notion that in the very act of naming, power and ownership are exerted over things in the world. Naming also becomes a tool for conjuring: through a speech-act each entity is called-up to the present moment, from vanished wonders of the world to disappeared sounds; extinct languages to things that melted. The project reflects on what disappears from our visibility and brings into focus the cost of a constant demand for progress and the resulting losses and extinctions.
Luke Willis Thompson, Hysterical Strength
Kunstverein Hildesheim, Germany
18 May —
18 June 2021
As part of Body Politics in the Exhibition Context, an ongoing series of events hosted by Kunstverein Hildesheim, Ruth Buchanan moderates Hysterical Strength, an artist talk by Luke Willis Thompson.
Luke Willis Thompson (Kai Beqa, Fiji) (b.1988 in Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand) graduated with a Master in Fine Arts, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland in 2010 and was awarded a Meisterschüler from Städelschule, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt am Main in 2015.Thompson was the recipient of the 2018 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, UK/DE, and the 2014 Walters Prize, NZ. In 2018, Thompson was a nominee for The Turner Prize, UK.
As part of Body Politics in the Exhibition Context, an ongoing series of events hosted by Kunstverein Hildesheim, Ruth Buchanan moderates Hysterical Strength, an artist talk by Luke Willis Thompson.
Luke Willis Thompson (Kai Beqa, Fiji) (b.1988 in Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand) graduated with a Master in Fine Arts, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland in 2010 and was awarded a Meisterschüler from Städelschule, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt am Main in 2015.Thompson was the recipient of the 2018 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, UK/DE, and the 2014 Walters Prize, NZ. In 2018, Thompson was a nominee for The Turner Prize, UK.
Ruth Buchanan, Curating Metabolic Infrastructures
Kunstverein Hildesheim, Germany
10.00AM — 12.00PM
11 May 2021
As part of Body Politics in the Exhibition Context, an ongoing series of events hosted by Kunstverein Hildesheim, Ruth Buchanan moderates Curating Metabolic Infrastructures, a lecture by Clémentine Deliss.
Today, curators need to be sensitive to the transformative disposition of museums and produce exercises in space and time that question every aspect of this venue’s historic, ideational and civic agency. Clémentine Deliss will speak about ways of repurposing museums for multidisciplinary, performative, decolonial, and democratic models of art practice, research, and education. Case studies will include her redesign of the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt, and subsequent development of the Metabolic Museum – University at KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin.
As part of Body Politics in the Exhibition Context, an ongoing series of events hosted by Kunstverein Hildesheim, Ruth Buchanan moderates Curating Metabolic Infrastructures, a lecture by Clémentine Deliss.
Today, curators need to be sensitive to the transformative disposition of museums and produce exercises in space and time that question every aspect of this venue’s historic, ideational and civic agency. Clémentine Deliss will speak about ways of repurposing museums for multidisciplinary, performative, decolonial, and democratic models of art practice, research, and education. Case studies will include her redesign of the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt, and subsequent development of the Metabolic Museum – University at KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin.
Darcy Lange, Faraway, So Close
e-flux film series, Online
10 May —
16 June 2021
e-flux presents Faraway, So Close, a six-part program of films and interviews put together by Koki Tanaka. It is the sixth program in Artist Cinemas, a long-term, online series of film programs curated by artists for e-flux Video & Film.
Darcy Lange's Studies of teaching in four Oxfordshire schools: Eric Spencer, Art Teacher, Fifth Form, Cheney Upper School, Oxfordshire. Class study and students’ responses, 1977 belongs to the series commonly known as Work Studies in Schools, where Darcy Lange (1946–2005) focused on the process of teaching and learning in the classroom. The first of these studies took place in 1976 in the English city of Birmingham where Lange videotaped a number of classrooms in three schools, seeking to represent different social classes by recording in both private and public schools. Work Studies in Schools in many ways continues some of the concerns of Lange’s earlier work studies of British miners and factory workers. However, here Lange introduces and examines language for the first time; particularly, how the subject is defined by linguistic parameters marking social differences such as gender, race, and class, as well as cultural, economic, and ideological backgrounds, thereby, as Lange stated, aiming to “illustrate the social breakdown within each class.”
e-flux presents Faraway, So Close, a six-part program of films and interviews put together by Koki Tanaka. It is the sixth program in Artist Cinemas, a long-term, online series of film programs curated by artists for e-flux Video & Film.
Darcy Lange's Studies of teaching in four Oxfordshire schools: Eric Spencer, Art Teacher, Fifth Form, Cheney Upper School, Oxfordshire. Class study and students’ responses, 1977 belongs to the series commonly known as Work Studies in Schools, where Darcy Lange (1946–2005) focused on the process of teaching and learning in the classroom. The first of these studies took place in 1976 in the English city of Birmingham where Lange videotaped a number of classrooms in three schools, seeking to represent different social classes by recording in both private and public schools. Work Studies in Schools in many ways continues some of the concerns of Lange’s earlier work studies of British miners and factory workers. However, here Lange introduces and examines language for the first time; particularly, how the subject is defined by linguistic parameters marking social differences such as gender, race, and class, as well as cultural, economic, and ideological backgrounds, thereby, as Lange stated, aiming to “illustrate the social breakdown within each class.”
Curators Conversation: Curating the Digital with Noelia Portela
Online on Zoom
6.30PM — 8.00PM
17 December 2020
Art Curator Grid online platform and SALOON London network are joining forces to host a new Curators Conversation, exploring the online spheres and the digital realm in curatorial practices. Join this great panel where the curators Julia Greenway and Noelia Portela will be in conversation with SALOON London co-founder Mara-Johanna Kolmel to share their insights on curating exhibitions online on 17.12.2020 at 6:30 pm (GMT).
Noelia Portela is an independent curator and arts professional based in Paris. She is the founder and curator of Persona Curada, a non-profit experimental curatorial project founded for the purpose of fostering Latin American Contemporary art, in conversation with the French art scene, through exhibitions, cultural exchange, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.She studied at the School of Architecture and Design from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. She is interested in African and Latin-American contemporary art, and her curatorial practice delves in non-western narratives, human mobility, identity and intersectional issues in feminism.
Art Curator Grid online platform and SALOON London network are joining forces to host a new Curators Conversation, exploring the online spheres and the digital realm in curatorial practices. Join this great panel where the curators Julia Greenway and Noelia Portela will be in conversation with SALOON London co-founder Mara-Johanna Kolmel to share their insights on curating exhibitions online on 17.12.2020 at 6:30 pm (GMT).
Noelia Portela is an independent curator and arts professional based in Paris. She is the founder and curator of Persona Curada, a non-profit experimental curatorial project founded for the purpose of fostering Latin American Contemporary art, in conversation with the French art scene, through exhibitions, cultural exchange, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.She studied at the School of Architecture and Design from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. She is interested in African and Latin-American contemporary art, and her curatorial practice delves in non-western narratives, human mobility, identity and intersectional issues in feminism.
In*ter*is*land Collective's 20:20 exhibition launches online
Online
20 October —
31 December 2020
Va // relational space between all things in the world Tagatavasa // peoples of the oceans, of sacred relational spaces Teu le va, tauhi va, vaha loto mahani mitaki // cherish the va.
In*ter*is*land Collective wanted to explore, engage and traverse connections in ta and va (time and space) in 2020, as a way to connect again too. In sending out the above provocation on social media we were privileged to receive a number of responses from creatives based all around the world. From a base of both London and Aotearoa, we began to curate this digital space which actively prioritised tagata Moana and BIPOC artists and their creations. We gift you a version of 2020, as seen through the eyes of these artists - and we thank them all for their time, energy and vulnerability. Monuina, ia manuia, kia ora and thank you, In*ter*is*land Collective.
Va // relational space between all things in the world Tagatavasa // peoples of the oceans, of sacred relational spaces Teu le va, tauhi va, vaha loto mahani mitaki // cherish the va.
In*ter*is*land Collective wanted to explore, engage and traverse connections in ta and va (time and space) in 2020, as a way to connect again too. In sending out the above provocation on social media we were privileged to receive a number of responses from creatives based all around the world. From a base of both London and Aotearoa, we began to curate this digital space which actively prioritised tagata Moana and BIPOC artists and their creations. We gift you a version of 2020, as seen through the eyes of these artists - and we thank them all for their time, energy and vulnerability. Monuina, ia manuia, kia ora and thank you, In*ter*is*land Collective.
Evacuation Tapes launches
Online, evacuationtapes.net
02 October —
31 December 2020
Initiated by Berlin-based artist Ruth Buchanan, Evacuation Tapes is a collection of writing that posits the very real paradox of the precarious and staunch (female) body as lived and encountered within society, front and centre. It looks at the ways in which certain life structures draw out or exaggerate the relationship between these forces—the weak, the strong. The collection explicitly folds out from a selection of poems by J. C. Sturm, one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most significant Māori women writers of the twentieth century. Sturm’s poetry is placed in relation to new writing by five women working today: Ruth Buchanan, Anna Gritz, Sarah Hopkinson, Hanahiva Rose, and Sriwhana Spong.
Initiated by Berlin-based artist Ruth Buchanan, Evacuation Tapes is a collection of writing that posits the very real paradox of the precarious and staunch (female) body as lived and encountered within society, front and centre. It looks at the ways in which certain life structures draw out or exaggerate the relationship between these forces—the weak, the strong. The collection explicitly folds out from a selection of poems by J. C. Sturm, one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most significant Māori women writers of the twentieth century. Sturm’s poetry is placed in relation to new writing by five women working today: Ruth Buchanan, Anna Gritz, Sarah Hopkinson, Hanahiva Rose, and Sriwhana Spong.
Shannon Te Ao for Edinburgh Art Festival
Online
30 July —
30 August 2020
As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2020 edition of Edinburgh Art Festival was cancelled. The Festival invited 10 artists from previous editions, to present work to mark the dates of what would have been the 2020 festival (30 July – 30 August). Originally commissioned for the 2017 edition of the Edinburgh Art Festival, Shannon Te Ao's With the sun aglow, I have my pensive moods, counterposes a dance scene of intense intimacy and colour, with a sequence filmed in black and white of barren open landscapes, to offer a poetic meditation on love, loss and grief.
As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2020 edition of Edinburgh Art Festival was cancelled. The Festival invited 10 artists from previous editions, to present work to mark the dates of what would have been the 2020 festival (30 July – 30 August). Originally commissioned for the 2017 edition of the Edinburgh Art Festival, Shannon Te Ao's With the sun aglow, I have my pensive moods, counterposes a dance scene of intense intimacy and colour, with a sequence filmed in black and white of barren open landscapes, to offer a poetic meditation on love, loss and grief.
André Hemer in Taggart Times 7
Hollis Taggart Gallery, Online
29 May —
15 June 2020
Taggart Times 7, curated by Director of Contemporary Art Paul Efstathiou, features work by seven gallery artists who share distinct but complementary approaches to form and color. This includes Vienna-based André Hemer who combines digital and traditional processes to explore the relationship between the traditional paint medium and a scanned image.
Taggart Times 7, curated by Director of Contemporary Art Paul Efstathiou, features work by seven gallery artists who share distinct but complementary approaches to form and color. This includes Vienna-based André Hemer who combines digital and traditional processes to explore the relationship between the traditional paint medium and a scanned image.