Public Space
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Rozana Lee, Visiting Fellows Programme
01 April —
30 April 2024
Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL), Leipzig, Germany
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Hana Pera Aoake, Delfina Foundation residency
02 April —
23 June 2024
Delfina Foundation, London, UK
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Nikau Hindin, Badu Gili: Celestial
15 December 2023 —
01 December 2024
Sydney Opera House, Gadigal Lands Sydney, Australia
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Ilke Gers in Building Castles in the Sky
05 April —
21 April 2024
various locations in Ghent, Belgium
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PHOTO 2024: International Festival of Photography
01 March —
24 March 2024
various venues across Naarm Melbourne, Australia
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Kate Newby, artist talk
12.00PM — 12.45PM
02 February 2024
Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, USA
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David Rickard, Synthesis (Heavy Chain)
25 January 2024 —
25 January 2026
Pears Building, London, UK
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On Civicness and participating in public life through art practice
Panel discussion in Berlin
On 2 October 2021, Contemporary HUM continues its series of panel discussions, this time focusing on Aotearoa’s large artist contingent in Berlin, and throughout Europe.
This conversation explored the idea of ‘civicness’ and how it is tied to social responsibility within a global community, taken from the perspective of three artists from Aotearoa who are actively taking part in public life through their practice. What does collective work or cooperation with others allow in contrast to an individual practice, and is authorship important in a collaborative project? What does a site-specific response look like when working in situ within vastly different contexts, from art institutions and public theatres to the NFT market? Is there a relation to be traced between civicness and social change and what tools can be used when attempting to rethink power relations?
Guest speakers include Glasgow-based Cat Auburn; Berlin-based Ruth Buchanan; and Warsaw-based Daniel Malone. HUM’s Editor Pauline Autet moderated the discussion.
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Ilke Gers, in Border Buda
27 October 2023 —
27 October 2026
various locations in Brussels, Vilvoorde and Machelen, Belgium
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Alexander Hoyles, Illuminate
20 October —
03 November 2023
Ginger Works, Leeds, UK
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Fiona Connor, A Preview of an Exhibition Under Construction
13 September 2023
Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen, Essen, Germany
Writing
Semantics of a City
By María Inés Plaza Lazo
26.06.2023
In May, publisher María Inés Plaza Lazo visited Ruth Buchanan’s A garden with bridges (spine, stomach, throat, ear), a walk-in sculpture and the result of a multi-part collaboration with the New Patrons that brings the synapses between all elements of Mönchengladbach, Germany, to new impulses.
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Maddie Leach, Fountains Failures Futures: The afterlives of public art
28 September —
29 September 2023
Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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Yona Lee, off-site
18 August —
14 December 2023
Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea
Writing
Off Season by Richard Frater
By Henry Babbage
29.05.2023
Off Season by Richard Frater at the Kunstverein München sparked reflections, for writer Henry Babbage, on our asymmetrical relations with the avian life that shares our cities.
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Kate Newby, Respiration
21 July —
02 September 2023
Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada
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Angela Tiatia, The Pearl, in Illuminate Adelaide
07 July —
23 July 2023
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
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Yona Lee, Wall, floor and ceiling
24 June —
27 August 2023
Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
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Richard Frater, What remains of a naturalist
10 December 2023 —
27 April 2024
Klosterruine, Berlin, Germany
Writing
Rocks on Wheels and Flying Shoes
By Rosemary Forde
28.03.2023
Curator Rosemary Forde explores the art-historical and civic context in which artist Mike Hewson’s recent public playground in Naarm Melbourne, Rocks on Wheels, has landed.
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Ruth Buchanan, A Garden with Bridges (spine, stomach, throat, ear)
07 May 2023 —
07 May 2028
jobcenter Mönchengladbach, Germany
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Maddie Leach, The fountain: An art-technological-social drama
01 January 2021 —
01 January 2025
Lund Technical University, Lund, Sweden
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Natalie Tozer at Sluice Lisbon: Territory
10 November —
13 November 2022
various locations throughout Barreiro, Lisbon, Portugal
Writing
documenta fifteen or lumbung one?
By Bruce E. Phillips
12.08.2022
For documenta fifteen, the arts collective FAFSWAG were invited to participate as members of the lumbung process established by this year’s curatorial collective ruangrupa. In the absence of the trophy artist phenomenon so entrenched within mega-exhibitions, Bruce E. Phillips responds to the work of different participating collectives exhibiting in Kassel and discusses how introducing a non-European exhibition-making concept into the heart of arguably Europe’s most revered art event was bound to confound those unwilling to consider a differing perspective.
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Chance and Impermanence
By Daria de Beauvais, Kate Newby
27.07.2022
Texas-based Aotearoa artist Kate Newby talks to Palais de Tokyo curator Daria de Beauvais about Reclaim the Earth, traversing the ecological questions at the heart of the exhibition, Newby's collaborative process of art making, and her new works commissioned for the exhibition.
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On Civicness and Participating in Public Life through Art Practice - Panel discussion transcript
By Cat Auburn, Daniel Malone, Pauline Autet, Ruth Buchanan
14.12.2021
For Contemporary HUM’s third panel in October 2021, On Civicness, we sat down with Cat Auburn, Ruth Buchanan, and Daniel Malone in Berlin to talk about their practices, recent projects and what “civicness” means to them as Aotearoa artists working abroad—spanning Polish experimental theatre, the memory functions of NFTs and the power relations of collecting institutions. Read the full transcript of the panel discussion here!
Writing
Forever Fresh
By Jessica Palalagi
06.11.2020
Jessica Palalagi, co-founder of the In*ter*is*land Collective, describes how their physical base in London, MOKU Pacific HQ, London, has served as a place for tagata Moana in the UK to create and meet since its inception in 2018, and reflects on the highs and lows of the past three years, including their exhibition in late 2019, Mana Moana, Mana Wahine.
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Making Art in the time of COVID-19
By Chloe Lane
28.05.2020
Two US-based New Zealand artists - Amy Howden-Chapman in New York and Emma McIntyre in Los Angeles - share their experience of the Covid-19 lockdown, how it has impacted their practice and everyday life, and discuss the possible ecological outcomes of the lockdown, including the shifting of art practices to the online world.
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The Discreet Charm of Chance
By Jari Niesner
23.08.2019
In her recent exhibition Following the Rubber Trails, at Frappant Galerie in Hamburg, Germany, Xin Cheng addresses the politics, history and philosophy of rubber, in its varying forms. Writer Jari Nieser explores the artist's performance, film and installation.
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Screaming Strawbears and other Strange Engagements
By Tessa Laird
05.07.2019
From Morris dancing to costume making, Berlin-based artist Matthew Cowan and arts writer Tessa Laird discuss Cowan's interest in folklore, the function of tradition in the modern world and the influence of surrealism on his practice. Cowan's exhibition The Scream of the Strawbear opens at Kunsthalle Giessen in Germany on 7 September 2019.