Appliance 121

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

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This issue of Appliance features: The exhibiton season titles One Day Wonders happening at Pearce Gallery between April 5 and May 24, 2013.

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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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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