300 Karangahape Road Central Auckland www.artspace.org.nz
Artstation
1 Ponsonby Road Newton www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/artstation
Audio Foundation
4 Poynton Terrace Central Auckland www.audiofoundation.org.nz
Ferari
Space Studio & Gallery 64 Taupo Quay www.spacestudiogallery.co.nz
WELLINGTON 30 Upstairs
30 Courtenay Place www.30upstairs.co.nz
Adam Art Gallery
Victoria University of Wellington www.adamartgallery.org.nz
Enjoy Public Art Gallery Level One, 147 Cuba Street www.enjoy.org.nz
66 Crummer Road Grey Lynn www.facebook.com/FerariSpace
ROAR!
George Fraser Gallery
The Engine Room
25a Princes Street Central Auckland www.georgefraser.auckland.ac.nz
Gloria Knight
Unit 24, 8-14 Madden St Central Auckland www.gloriaknight.co.nz
In House Creative Projects 2/4 Cross Street, Newton Central Auckland www.inhousecreativeprojects.com
Projectspace B431
20 Whitaker Place Central Auckland www.projectspaceB431.auckland.ac.nz
Rm
Ground Floor, 295 Karangahape Road Central Auckland www.rm103.org
Second Storey
215A Karangahape Road Central Auckland www.secondstorey.org.nz
Corner Victoria and Vivian Streets www.pablosart.org.nz
East End Block 1, Massey University Wellington 63 Wallace Street, Entrance C
The Film Archive medigallery Corner of Taranaki and Ghuznee Streets www.filmarchive.org.nz
The Russian Frost Farmers 2 Eva Street www.therussianfrostfarmers.com
CHRISTCHURCH 241chambers
241 Moorhouse Avenue www.chambers241.wordpress.com
Dog Park Art Project Space 3/375 Wilsons Road Waltham www.dogpark.co.nz
The Physics Room
A Contemporary Art Project Space 2nd and 3rd Floor, 209 Tuam Street www.physicsroom.org.nz
DUNEDIN
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Blue Oyster Art Project Space
Snowhite Gallery
none
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
ST PAUL St
Gallery One and Two Level 1 WM Building, 40 St Paul Street Gallery Three 39 Symonds St (cnr Mount st and Symonds st) www.stpaulst.aut.ac.nz
Basement, Moray Chambers 30 Moray Place www.blueoyster.org.nz
Project space & residential studios 24 Stafford Street www.none.org.nz
Appliance is published by Artists Alliance For advertising and editorial enquiries please contact the office, details outlined below. This issue of Appliance features: The exhibiton season titles One Day Wonders happening at Pearce Gallery between April 5 and May 24, 2013.
Website: chambers241.wordpress.com Facebook: 241 Chambers
Window space, 1 Ponsonby Road Ponsonby www.youthartcommittee.tumblr.com
The Depot Artspace
The gallery is also available for use by other art institutions as a venue for exhibitions and related arts and cultural activities in Christchurch.
28 Clarence St, Devonport www.thedepotartspace.co.nz
The Film Archive Auckland Exhibition Space Level One, 300 Karangahape Road Central Auckland www.filmarchive.org.nz
Window
University of Auckland Central Library Foyer www.window.auckland.ac.nz
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113 Alexandra Street, Hamilton www.facebook.com/drawinc
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gallery guide / art insights / April - May 2013
ARTSPACE
WHANGANUI
ISSN: 2253 - 1483
241 Chambers is an art gallery and artists’ studio space, which opened in July 2011, in response to the challenges that the Christchurch art community has faced since the series of destructive earthquakes.
71 Mt Eden Road Grafton www.alphabetcity.org.nz
It is a unique exhibition space that fulfills a variety of roles: Community gallery, dealer gallery and artist-run space. It represents the work of Christchurch artists, addressing the absence of a more permanent arts infrastructure in the inner city.
Alphabet City
Academy of Performing Arts, Gate 2B University of Waikato www.waikato.ac.nz/academy/gallery
Image courtesy of 241Chambers
AUCKLAND
Calder and Lawson Gallery
With support from Creative New Zealand, eight artists’ have re-established their practices in the studios, providing working artists with the opportunity to stay in a community environment.
gallery guide
Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design relocated
to Parnell. From 2008 until 2011, Pearce operated
as an in-house educational gallery. In 2012,
Whitecliffe Fine Arts Lecturer Jill Sorensen took
over the direction of Pearce Gallery with the
intention of creating an exhibition programme
that integrates what she sees as Whitecliffe’s
strengths: educational rigour, intimate scale, and
a personalised approach. In keeping with this, her
strategy has been to grow the gallery organically,
slowly developing a programme that fosters
experimental research and facilitates critique and
discussion. The curatorial directive is to explore
the possibilities of the “research exhibition” as
a venue for critical exchange, discussion and
feedback. As a result, the programme focuses on
experimental and transitional projects: work in
its developmental phase, rather than “finished”
exhibitions.
A core aspect of this programme is the annual
One Day Wonder series. Each season of One
Day Wonder addresses a particular research
directive through a series of twenty-four hour
exhibitions. The 2012 series was a faculty research
project titled Paper Bag Research Forum, which
responding in part to the 2012 PBRF (Performance
Based Research Funding) round. This year the
project is titled Parallel Universe, and moves
beyond the College to look at six artist collectives
across the country.
Other new initiatives underway include the use of
the gallery as a project space during term breaks.
This will allow an artist or group of artists to use
Pearce as a research/installation space for a two to
four week period, and to partake in a programme
of discussion and exhibition both within the
institution and with the wider public. This could be
used as a final exhibition in itself, or it could be an
opportunity for research and development towards
a significant future event, such as an exhibition
at a public gallery. The timing and format of the
project space programme is still in progress, and
expressions of interest are welcome.
Pearce Gallery currently operates only during the
Whitecliffe Academic year, listings and opening
times can be found on www.facebook.com/
WhitecliffePearce
Please direct enquiries to Jill Sorensen:
jills@whitecliffe.ac.nz
www.facebook.com/WhitecliffePearce
www.whitecliffe.ac.nz/showcase/pearcegallery
One Day wonder 2012: Paper Bag Research Forum Emma Johnson
One Day wonder 2012: Paper Bag Research Forum Jill Sorensen Pakeha, between woman and man, intrigue us. Imagining different worlds and new ways of interacting; this is what excites us. We work collaboratively across performance, installation, and
develop, while encouraging experimentation and collective dialogue.
While our physical location is closing this year we aim to continue as a
collective and facilitate projects within the art community.
social life are again sung”, sets up an apt analogy for our group as art
practitioners; each of us working away on our own trajectory through
our own terrain. Our very informal, collegial relationship formed
to counter what is actually quite a lonely, isolated pursuit. We’ve
each put in as much or as little time as we feel like in each instance.
proviso for us is that the relationship remains demand free; that we
exchange ideas around art criticism and professionalism. An important
various materials from antipodean history.
pursuit of truth through the study of existence via the presentation of
Zealand. We are primarily an educational institution dedicated to the
based geographically at undisclosed premises throughout New
The Museum of True History (affectionately known as MOTH) is
An extract from the MOTH Manifesto:
3 May MOTH
margin and centre, between land and sea, between Maori and
priority being to provide a place for emerging artists to explore and
of fable of anarchic social rebellion” where “praises of the selfish anti
variety of physical and digital realities.
of creative practice connecting different artistic practices across a
performances. Through improvisation, we are exploring the bounds
materiality and technology to create innovative installations and
Our work involves collaborating across boundaries of media,
Kim Newall and Company
17 May Wiredvisual and Colab
distance, emailing from opposite sides of the globe.
worked closely together, sharing a studio and we have worked across
difference inspire us. Ideas of conversation and connection between
space on Karangahape Road in 2011, by a group of graduates. The
together regularly, discuss proposals and work we’re making, and
We call ourselves We Are Optimistic (WAO). Everyday experiences of
Second Storey is an artist-run initiative that was established with a
The title from this novel by Allan Sillitoe (1959), described as “a kind
curation to make art that hopes to inspire social change. We have
Kate van der Drift and Clare Fleming (Cover Image)
Lisa Rayner, Gemma Skipper, Phillip Good, Ena Kosovac, Claudia Jowitt
Barbara Smith, Lynda Wilson, Paul Judd, Nell Nutsford
continued to meet up for about 5 years now. We see exhibitions
10 May We Are Optimistic
12 April Second Storey
5 April The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner
Image: © Becky Nunes 2012
further our collective creative endeavours.
dissemination of information, to provoke dialogue and to support and
photography and education. We aim to facilitate the reception and
We are practicing visual artists with a background in curating,
ideas, networks and opportunities.
lens-based artists we ourselves have felt a need for local exposure to
foster a sense of supportive community for feedback and debate. As
environment. Regular sessions of presentation and group critique
based visual culture in Aotearoa via rigorous discussion in a supportive
As a collective Tangent supports and advances debate around lens-
Becky Nunes, Parisa Taghizadeh, Anita Totha
24 May Tangent
Exploring artist’s networks as structures that challenge, support, create or supersede the status quo of the art world. Over the season six groups of artists who work together in some way, from loose networks to shared studios or artist run spaces, are invited to partake in a one day research oriented exhibition/event in which they investigate/ play with/ critique the creative interplays and tensions innate in working together. The format for the exhibition series is: openings are on Fridays, 5 – 8pm with a floor talk at 5.30pm and open Saturday 10 – 1pm Note: no exhibitions during term break, 19 & 26 April.
ONE DAY WONDERS 2013 SEASON TWO: PARALLEL UNIVERSE
Pearce Gallery was established in 2008 when