Past Exhibitions - 2008
Adaptive Landscapes: The Wilder Shores of Love
Karin van Roosmalen
6 - 28 November 2008
Opening 8.30 PM Friday November 7
In association with the BLOW 08 Creative Arts Festival
DOOM / ZOOM
Keila Martin
18 - 31 October 2008
Opening Wed 15th October 5.30 PM
Where do I stand?
Group Exhibition
1 - 10 October 2008
Elizabet Elliot, Andrew Gordon, Wai Familton, Chris Lunquist, Hannah Edmunds, Katherine Joyce Kellaway & Suzi Newton, Rebekah Boyland, Conrad Murray & Laura Kay, Aaron Burr, Johnathan Titheridge, Mike Heynes & Tim Larkin
080808 UpStage Festival
Group Exhibition
7 - 9 October 2008
Stories of identity and histories that connect countries, cultures, and centuries are among the performances selected for the 080808 UpStage Festival, which takes place on 8 August 2008.
The festival features 15 live online performances by artists from 12 countries, and will be accessible to anyone with a standard internet connection and browser. People in London, Munich, Oslo, Los Angeles and Wellington can also attend ‘real life’ access nodes.
The Engine Room, Massey University, Wellington NZ: 7pm-midnight Friday 8th, with proximal performance by Anaesthesia Associates (Dan Agnihotri-Clark and Paul Bradley) at 10.30pm; and 12 noon to 1.30pm Saturday 9th
More info about the festival HERE
Kiwi Garden
Ding Jie (China)
22 August - 19 September 2008
Massey University and the Engine Room present "Kiwi Garden", a Multi- Media installation by Chinese artist Ding Jie. The exhibition will run August 22 to September 19 in the Engine Room Gallery, eastern end of Block 1, Massey University, Entrance C, Wallace St, Wellington.
Ding Jie's evocative meditation on New Zealand identity has come to fruition as result of her two month Wellington City Council/Asia /New Zealand foundation residency. "Kiwi Garden" is a work that simply must be experienced, bringing a distinctly Chinese perspective on an exercise in 'artist as manager of signs'. Ding Jie overtakes the full scale of the gallery, transforming it into a hypnotic space that challenges the senses.
Ding Jie's Practice consistently deals with history, cultural and artistic identity, and the transformation of public space. Kiwi Garden invites you to consider your own National Identity through the filter of Eastern thought and contemporary art.
The residency is supported by Wellington City Council, Asia New Zealand Foundation, the Bolton St Residency and Massey University School of Fine Arts.