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gallery guide

64 Taupo Quay www.spacestudiogallery.co.nz

WELLINGTON

4 Poynton Terrace Central Auckland www.audiofoundation.org.nz

30 Upstairs

Circle

Adam Art Gallery

Newmarket Square Station Newmarket www.facebook.com/circlegallery.newmarket

Ferari

66 Crummer Road Grey Lynn http://ferarispace.com

George Fraser Gallery

25a Princes Street Central Auckland www.georgefraser.auckland.ac.nz

Gloria Knight

30 Courtenay Place www.30upstairs.co.nz

Victoria University of Wellington www.adamartgallery.org.nz

Enjoy Public Art Gallery Level One, 147 Cuba Street www.enjoy.org.nz

ROAR!

Corner Victoria and Vivian Streets www.pablosart.org.nz

The Engine Room

East End Block 1, Massey University Wellington 63 Wallace Street, Entrance C

Unit 24, 8-14 Madden St Central Auckland www.gloriaknight.co.nz

The Film Archive medigallery

Gus Fisher Gallery

The Russian Frost Farmers

Kenneth Myers Centre, 74 Shortland Street Central Auckland www.gusfishergallery.auckland.ac.nz

PLAZA

Corner of Taranaki and Ghuznee Streets www.filmarchive.org.nz

2 Eva Street www.therussianfrostfarmers.com

CHRISTCHURCH

48A Bond Street, Kingsland Central Auckland http://plaza.net.nz

241chambers

Projectspace B431

Dog Park Art Project Space

Rm

The Physics Room

Snowhite Gallery

Room Four

20 Whitaker Place Central Auckland www.projectspaceB431.auckland.ac.nz

Ground Floor, 295 Karangahape Road Central Auckland www.rm103.org

Building One, Gate One Carrington Rd, Mt Albert, Auckland www.unitec.ac.nz/unitec/snowhite

split/fountain

241 Moorhouse Avenue www.chambers241.wordpress.com

3/375 Wilsons Road Waltham www.dogpark.co.nz

A Contemporary Art Project Space 2nd and 3rd Floor, 209 Tuam Street www.physicsroom.org.nz

336 St Asaph Street www.roomfour.co.nz

DUNEDIN

3C/23 Dundonald Street Eden Terrace, Auckland www.splitfountain.org

Blue Oyster Art Project Space

ST PAUL St

none

The Depot Artspace

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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

28 Clarence St, Devonport www.thedepotartspace.co.nz

16 Dowling Street www.blueoyster.org.nz

Project space & residential studios 24 Stafford Street www.none.org.nz

Level One, 300 Karangahape Road Central Auckland www.filmarchive.org.nz

west.

NICAI Student Centre, Level 2, Building 421 26 Symonds Street, Central Auckland www.creative.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/west

Window

University of Auckland Central Library Foyer www.window.auckland.ac.nz

WAIKATO Draw Inc.

113 Alexandra Street, Hamilton www.facebook.com/drawinc

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BLOGS/WEBSITES The internet is the prime place for free art reading material, and all from the comfort of your personal computer, tablet or phone. Here are some great sites to browse for art news, reviews, opinions, videos and images.

• theartstack.com • aucklandartgallery.blogspot.co.nz • blouinartinfo.com • contemporaryartdaily.com • e-flux.com • eyecontactsite.com • overthenet.blogspot.co.nz • tate.org.uk/context-comment Also many websites these days have lists of likeminded websites/blogs so follow the links and branch out to discover other reading spaces.

Artstation

WHANGANUI

MAGAZINES/PERIODICALS There are the local classics that many of you will be familiar with such as Art New Zealand, Artnews New Zealand and Artzone. There are a huge number of international art magazines and publications out there in the world here are a few worth discovering: • Artlink • Art Asia Pacific • Art in Australia • The Art Newspaper • Artforum International • Flash Art • Frieze • Modern Painter

300 Karangahape Road Central Auckland www.artspace.org.nz

Academy of Performing Arts, Gate 2B University of Waikato www.waikato.ac.nz/academy/gallery

There are squillions of great art magazines, books and blogs to read and it’s hard to know where to start if you’re looking for a source of new reading material. After trawling the internet and asking around I’ve compiled a list of interesting spaces to read, places to find reading material and online spots to glean information.

ARTSPACE

Calder and Lawson Gallery

gallery guide / art insights / Dec 13 - Jan 14

71 Mt Eden Road Grafton www.alphabetcity.org.nz

Waikato Institute of Technology Hamilton http://ramp.mediarts.net.nz/about.html

LIBRARIES/BOOKS • Find out about new books to purchase through the Parsons

email list – sign up by contacting books@parsons.co.nz • Art Gallery shops and reading rooms. Many public art galleries

have research libraries and reading room. Enquire with

your local gallery and check the Gallery Guide in Appliance.

• Local libraries • Art schools’ fine art libraries, such as Elam school of Fine Arts.

Again just enquire at your closest art institute.

Alphabet City

RAMP Gallery

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AUCKLAND

Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky, Freud, Jung and Tito walk into a bar….

There is a story I remember hearing a while ago that at one point in 1913, Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky, Freud, Jung and Tito all lived within a one to two square mile patch near central Vienna. In many respects, they were in various stages of exile or becoming. Hitler was a starving (and soon to become failed, artist), Stalin and Trotsky were in hiding from Tsarist forces in Georgia and Russia, and Tito was a metal worker, still many years from becoming Marshall. Freud and Jung were more established, though their significance and the extent of their influence was still in its infancy.

This story came up recently during a discussion I was privy to about whether or not Marx and Nietzsche had ever met. A brief search on the net brings back some humorous (and fictitious) results, but the answer by and large seems to be no. What did occur to me though is the idea of these communities which have existed for so long, based in some of the great cities in the world (Belle Epoch Paris, pre-War Vienna, 1920s Berlin, 1960s London, 1980s New York to name but a few). Places where people came together in one area with a range of backgrounds and influences and created with and around each other organic creative, political and social communities.

In 2013, it feels a little trite to talk about the effect of the post-internet age on creativity. The ubiquity of the internet is now such that an entire archive of images, recordings, texts and more is available on mass 24/7 to anyone who can spare 20 cents for half an hour in an internet café, and the sheer amount of work both visual, audio and textual on this subject is beyond substantial (and also readily available). What does occur to me, thinking about trying to operate within the bounds of such an expanse of resources, is the way that the idea of influences and other points of reference have changed from being optional and relative to being almost expected or prescribed. …and the bartender says….

With so much accessible material only a mouse click away, artists, writers and others are increasingly expected to operate in a dual role as both creator/practitioner and consumer/ critic. This isn’t necessarily new, but it is increasingly happening on a scale previously impossible until the spread of the internet. Whereas people would come to a place and work within its limits (to use somewhat clumsy and problematic wording), now there is literally no excuse not to have seen performances and work shown in places on the other side of the world; similarly, new criticism and theory is constantly being published online. This article itself could be cited as both out of date and under researched, or potentially as plagiarised from another source.

To not have consumed work in some way is to have been found wanting, to not have cross referenced is to be found at fault. Clearly this isn’t without precedent. Much of my time at University was focussed not so much on what you argued in assignments, but how much you could reference. However, with this increasing pressure to be integrated into the seemingly endless web of happening, it can become very easy to begin second guessing oneself.

In an interview with Eyecurious blog (www.eyecurious.com) from May 2012, Canadian artist Free source image from www.publicdomainpictures.net

and filmmaker Jon Rafman suggested “the lack of history in this new post-internet age is making it harder to have a sense of self.1 The Internet has already become so ubiquitous, that it is now a banal part of our reality.”This idea of a ‘lack of history,’ which I would also suggest could be read in part as a ‘lack of context,’ seems crucial to understanding the potential dilemma facing artists today. What the internet does not come complete with is a filter. In the same way that what we reference is as important as referencing itself, we must devise new approaches to how we begin to negotiate the endless stream of information coming at us from all sides. There must also be some acknowledgment that the internet, while widely available to many, is still a completely foreign concept to others. We must be wary of over normalising the influence of online culture, and remember that it is still an example of class and cultural divides.

In the same interview, Rafman posits “people talk about how the Internet age is so new, and the idea that technology has changed everything. I think it is very important to see that many of these things existed in different forms in the past. For instance, the information overload that is thought of as defining the Internet era dates back to early modern times and the emergence of the modern city.” Now as then, we are going to have to find a way to shape and contextualise what we are exposed to in order to put forward new ideas and readdress old ones.

“Mum was right….I should have gone to Law School.”

- Will Gresson

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