ARTSPACE
64 Taupo Quay, Whanganui www.spacestudiogallery.co.nz
Level One, 147 Cuba Street www.enjoy.org.nz
ROAR!
Cnr Victoria and Vivian Streets www.pablosart.org.nz
Unit 24, 8-14 Madden St Central Auckland www.gloriaknight.co.nz
The Engine Room
In House Creative Projects
The Film Archive mediagallery
20 Whitaker Place Central Auckland www.projectspaceB431.auckland.ac.nz
Rm
Ground Floor, 295 Karangahape Road, Central Auckland www.rm103.org
Satellite Gallery
Corner St Benedicts Street and Newton Road Newton www.satellitegallery.co.nz
Second Storey
215A Karangahape Road Central Auckland www.secondstorey.org.nz
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The Russian Frost Farmers 2 Eva Street www.therussianfrostfarmers.com
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241 Moorhouse Avenue www.chambers241.wordpress.com
Dog Park Art Project Space 3/375 Wilsons Road Waltham www.dogpark.co.nz
The Physics Room 55 Sandyford Street Sydenham www.physicsroom.org.nz
DUNEDIN
Window space, 1 Ponsonby Road Ponsonby www.youthartcommittee.tumblr.com
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Snakepit
Blue Oyster Art Project Space
Snowhite Gallery
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33 High Street Central Auckland www.snakepit.co.nz
Building One, Gate One Carrington Rd, Mt Albert, Auckland www.unitec.ac.nz/unitec/snowhite
split/fountain
3C/23 Dundonald Street Eden Terrace, Auckland www.splitfountain.org
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Basement, Moray Chambers 30 Moray Place www.blueoyster.org.nz
Project space & residential studios 24 Stafford Street www.none.org.nz
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The Film Archive Auckland – Reference Library Open Monday - Friday 10-5.
Projectspace B431
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2/4 Cross Street, Newton Central Auckland www.inhousecreativeprojects.com
East End Block 1, Massey University Wellington 63 Wallace Street, Entrance C
Enjoy Public Art Gallery – Reading Room Open during gallery hours. Wednesday – Friday 11– 6 and Saturday 11– 4. www.enjoy.org.nz
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RM Gallery – Archive Visit during gallery hours . Thursday – Friday 1 – 6 and Saturday 12 - 4. http://rm103.org
25a Princes Street Central Auckland www.georgefraser.auckland.ac.nz
Victoria University of Wellington www.adamartgallery.org.nz
The Suter Art Gallery - Library By appointment only. www.thesuter.org.nz
George Fraser Gallery
Adam Art Gallery
Blue Oyster Art Project Space – Reading Room Open during gallery hours – Tuesday – Friday 11– 5 and Saturday 12 – 3. www.blueoyster.org.nz
66 Crummer Road Grey Lynn www.facebook.com/FerariSpace
30 Courtenay Place www.30upstairs.co.nz
split/fountain – Reading Room Open Saturday 10 – 5 or by appointment. www.splitfountain.org
Ferari
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ARTSPACE – Reading Room Open during gallery hours Tuesday – Friday 10 – 6 and Saturday 11 – 4 www.artspace.org.nz/programmes/readingroom.asp
4 Poynton Terrace Central Auckland www.audiofoundation.org.nz
WELLINGTON
The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery – Research Library Open Tuesday 2 – 5 or by appointment. http://www.govettbrewster.com/Learn/ResearchLibrary.aspx
Audio Foundation
Space Studio & Gallery
Auckland Art Gallery – Research Library Open: Monday – Saturday 1 – 5. www.aucklandartgallery.com/library
300 Karangahape Road, Central Auckland www.artspace.org.nz
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WHANGANUI
gallery guide / art insights / Oct - Nov 2012
71 Mt Eden Road, Grafton www.alphabetcity.org.nz
The Film Archive Wellington The Medialibrary is open Monday - Friday, 12 - 5 The Jonathan Dennis research library is open by appointment. www.filmarchive.org.nz
Alphabet City
Academy of Performing Arts, Gate 2B, University of Waikato www.waikato.ac.nz/foundation/calderandlawsongallery.shtml
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AUCKLAND
Calder and Lawson Gallery
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gallery guide
things when all of a sudden he said something to the effect of there
good press recently. We were shooting the shit about a few different
is an ex-pat like me, playing in a great band that has had some pretty
turned up before the show and sat down next to me to have a beer. He
It started with a conversation I had with a musician friend of mine who
for decades, in Berlin that can’t exist simply because the foundation is
which supports itself and fosters its own continuation and renewal
have been playing, building and developing a cohesive community
elsewhere or heading home. While in Auckland there are some who
is full of people who lived in Berlin ‘for a few years,’ before heading
with the fact that so many people move through this city. The world
and what they are seeing/hearing in Berlin. On top of this, there are
arguably often a lack of critical engagement between the audience
other cities in (Western especially) Europe. That being said, there is
exclusionary and totally bourgeois scene which could be identified in
much lower. I am also by no means advocating the kind of alienating,
cost of living is higher and the support for the arts seems to be so
it must be to pursue artistic endeavours in other centres where the
Selective Hearing
not being a ‘scene’ in Berlin. Not ‘scene’ in some contrived kind of way, always falling away.
distance from Berlin. In both those cities, he and I could name a lot
My buddy and I both come from small cities some considerable
But then I gave it some thought.
them that the very idea seems totally crazy.
I have seen so many great shows and spent so much time documenting
reaction was one of disbelief, not least because over the last three years
without any sort of independent critical awareness. Things are cool if
people will often come to the city and go to its events and parties
The fact that the city has such a pull based purely on spec, means that
permanentpollution.wordpress.com/2012/08/05/berlin
cool, hipster mythology is actually totally working against the city itself.
from an acquaintance of mine a while ago about how Berlin’s über
I am also given pause to consider a commentary I read about the city
harder to find affordable living space and more and more land is
fact that reputation is leading to massive changes in Berlin, as it gets
While the mythology of the city seems to be alive and well, in actual
more could not be made with such promising raw materials.
others. For some though, it will always be a source of frustration that
but then made it safely aboard another with a good story to tell the
happy to be part of a fleeting thing, a rat that was on a sinking ship
pulling power. This has been going on since long before I moved
spaces and also out of their venues. The amount of invitations I
middle class in Berlin are pushing bands out of their rehearsal
Gentrification, rising rents and the changing values of the blossoming
self-sufficient scene. The first is the way the city itself is changing.
working simultaneously against Berlin’s ability to foster a cohesive,
get to sleep. If people are serious about Berlin’s music scene, there
people who really do want it quiet after 10pm so that the baby can
to build and more and more of the foundation is being eaten up by
few will be here long enough to do anything about it. No one wants
complacency. Many will complain about the way things are going, but
The second factor then working against the city is people’s own
Images courtesy of W Gresson.
Cover: Du Champ, 14-1-2012 General Public.
Top left: Mysticats 7-8-1212 Bei Roy.
Far left: Krapoola 13-2-2012 Madame Claude.
permanentpollution.wordpress.com
further afield.
discusses music, art and cinema among other things in the German capital and
Permanent Pollution is a blog by another Berlin based writer, Cesip Xynic, which
selektives-hoeren-archiv.dablweb.com/?p=728
The Zone, organised by Noisekölln.
where Du Champ (It/DE), Ancient Ocean (US) and Expo 70 (US) performed at
Septmeber 13, 2012. The original was a review (of sorts) of a recent show
Note: This article was edited from a post on Selektives Hören Archiv dated
Will Gresson
Imagine the possibilities.
being bought up by developers who simply want to cash in on Berlin’s
turn into something very different. It might also be that many are
that its Pseudo-Bohemian appeal, real or imagined, will eventually
will in the next ten to fifteen years change and become so gentrified
I’m not naïve about this, I promise. It is totally inevitable that Berlin
really doing very little to add to the city’s creative landscape.
also far too many who lay claim to some sort of “contribution” while
but a proper group of people, artists and audience, who contribute
of bands, clubs, bars and promoters who constitute what we could
they are in Berlin. People are cool if they are in Berlin, going to things
something constantly evolving to Berlin’s musical landscape. My initial
comfortably assert to be the respective cornerstones of the scenes
which are cool….because they are in Berlin.
of years. The cost of simple things like train tickets has noticeably
here in 2009 but the rate is undoubtedly picked up in the last couple Except tonnes of what happens in the galleries, and bars, and clubs
increased every year since then, and while still comparatively cheap,
the rise in the cost of living across the board does not look set to stop
have received recently from promoters and bands specifying early
needs to be a much more engaged, critical approach from all areas to
any time soon.
start times and strict finishing times due to neighbours and noise
combat the trends which you can see developing. what two artists in particular must have thought, coming to the
the large size of the crowds often leaves me considering how difficult
number of people who have come through on tour and remarked at
with so little money, and still play to some fairly large audiences. The
musicians are fortunate in Berlin that they can accomplish so much
I feel at this point, however, that I have to add a caveat to this;
Noisekölln shows).
last 8-10 months as a member of Fausto Maijstral have also been
together (I should also add that my favourite shows in Berlin in the
through intimate and well organised shows that Noisekölln have put
the best small touring acts I have seen in the last year have been
identifiable, positive forces behind Berlin’s creative scene. Most of
his supporters and their work with Noisekölln are one of the main
My friend and I were both quick to agree that Michael Aniser and
complaints is pretty disheartening. I was wondering at a recent show
many, I would suggest that there might actually be two things
Now while that might seem enough to cause consternation in
and whatever else here is terrible.
of those cities. There are certain people I could name from Auckland who have been around since I was still in high school (too young to get into the shows, but still aware of who they were and what they were doing), that will forever be the central figures in the musical and cultural life of the city. I remember the first time I became aware of The Wine Cellar; when Whammy Bar opened and also D.O.C (which opened not long before I left). I also know a lot of people who have played in numerous different bands over the last ten or so years, covering every conceivable genre and mood, releasing small print run records, CDRs and zines, and hosting radio shows and club nights in venues across the city. The list of the established elements of Auckland’s scene goes on, things like Cheese on Toast and bFM, and in more recent years MUZAI records and now Hell is Now Love alongside it. Before I left, I even knew which vintage stores I could go past to get tickets to some shows (I remember running to St Kevin’s Arcade when I found out that The Evens were playing, I was such a Fugazi nerd that the idea of Ian MacKaye being in Auckland had me calling them up and asking them to save me a ticket because I would be there in twenty minutes. The kind young women remembered me and peeled me off a ticket from a huge bundle she still had without laughing once). The up-shot of all of this is that Berlin’s music scene, such as it is, seems vastly different. Granted that it is much bigger and more spread out, but there is more to it than that. The very nature of this city itself means that nothing lasts for very long and thus nothing is ever built up very much. While so much is said about the music scene here in the 1970s; the current scene (and this is, I admit, totally aside from the techno scene which is very much a different kettle of fish), exists in a much more pronounced state of flux. Much of this clearly has to do