Past Exhibitions - 2012
Tame, Lologo & Ata: Performance, Poetry & Photos
Janet Lilo
John Pule
Silega Setoga
10 November — 24 November, 2012
The first three recipients of the Pasifika Arts Research Fellowships, 2012.
Exhibition text downloadable HERE
Toioho Ki Poneke
18 October -3 November 2012
Students from the Masters in Māori Visual Arts, Massey University, Manawatu
Jermaine Reihana (Ngāpuhi Ngāti Hine Hokianga)
Asher Raawiri Newbery (Ngāi Tūhoe)
Ephraim Russell (Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki, Ngāi Tamanuhiri, Rongomaiwahine, Ngati Kahungunu, Ngāi Tahu)
Bridget Reweti (Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi)
Karangawai Marsh (Ngāti Raukawa ki te tonga, Ngāti Maniapoto)
List of works available HERE
Not Really
14 - 29 September 2012
Opening 13 September 2012 at 5.30 pm
Current students from Massey University’s Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Arts
David Brown
Sara Cowdell
Caitlin Devoy
Sara Gibbels
George Hajian
Ambrose Hickman
Lisa Martin
Maria O’ Toole
Connah Podmore
Nigel Royal
Ray Tat
The Object Made Elsewhere
8 - 25 August 2012, Opening 7 August at 5.30 pm
Hannah Batty
Ella Ducan
Mat Logan
Rebecca Scott
Selected works and catalogue launch from the Student Series at Ilam Campus Gallery, University of Canterbury, Christchurch.
Customarily, the introduction to a representative group show discusses the difficulty of selecting the group. As always, this show is an effort to tell a certain story. In this case, it is a story about the Ilam School of Fine Arts, and what students at the School are doing.
This show is drawn from the Student Series at Ilam Campus Gallery. The catalogue, which is being launched in conjunction with this show, details that series.
The artists work is all, obviously, different, but certain themes do emerge. Batty’s work, with clear links to John Panting and William Tucker, explores modernist heroism, both domesticating and estranging their formal adventurism. Ducan looks at performances of self and body. Logan produces awkwardly appropriated artefacts, plundering imagery. The violence of femininity provides a context for Scott’s explorations of disgust and abjection.
Around Architecture
22 - 29 June 2012
Adi Brown
Jonathan Kay
Ryan McCauley
Maria Sainsbury
Brenda Sullivan
Around Architecture brings together five Masters of Fine Arts candidates to explore aspects of architecture, space, materiality and the process of building. Timed to coincide with the opening of Te Ara Hihiko, the new College of Creative Arts building that sits adjacent to the Engine Room, this exhibition encourages the viewer to look at built space and to become more aware of one’s own perceptions as they move in time. Issues surface connecting the selection and transformation of materials with function and interpretation: placement and scale in relation to the body over time; and image in relation to place and history.
A list of works and further info HERE
Working The Room
Mark Harvey
31 May 2012
The Engine Room is proud to present a performance by Mark Harvey this Thursday night. The artist will premiere his 2011 project Working the Room in Wellington for the first time. Featuring a suite of six tests, Harvey investigates promises of choreographic seriousness in stilling, labour, falling, being fallen, and audience/self repair.
Mark Harvey is one of New Zealand’s leading performance-based artists with an extensive body of work produced in New Zealand, Asia and Europe. He completed his PhD in 2011 at AUT from which this performance originates. Harvey recently developed an ambitious public art project with Letting Space entitled Productive Bodies which featured as part of the New Zealand festival of the Arts and is a lecturer in Performance at Auckland University.
I Hear Motion
28 May - 1 June 2012
I Hear Motion is five days of performance – a series of works by students examining liveness as a key component of their practice including three performance evenings culminating in a final night celebration on Friday 1 June.
The showcase features a performance by Mark Harvey who will premiere his recent project Working the Room. Participating artists:
Deanna Dowling, Megan Newby, Louise Rutledge, Negin Dastgheib, Resela Dometita, Mara Schmidt, Jamie O’Brien, Alexandra Etienne, Hannah Lyons, Ray Tat Tan, Bryce Galloway, Tom Walker, Zena Bartlett, Mark Harvey, Beth Sometimes, Trea Marshall, Micaleh van der Laan, Sarah Cowdell, Emily Joliffe, Samin Son, Alex Papanastasiou, and Caroline Redelinghuys.
Schedule of events HERE
16 Days Of New York
28 April - 5 May 2012
A document of the 2011 New York Study Tour by its participants.
List of artists HERE
After Image
30 March — 5 April, 2012
Opening Thursday 29th March 2012 at 5.30 PM
A group exhibition by 400 level BDes Photography students exploring presentation strategies.
On Balance
Melissa Irving
Clinton Watkins
Olivia Webb
Curated by Heather Galbraith
16 March 2012
On balance brings together works by three artists within the commercial and residential environment of Left Bank in central Wellington.
“Balance” can relate to physical centredness, emotional wellbeing, to achieving harmony, being “in tune” or to cracking the elusive life/work desired ratio. On balance nods to how we aspire to physical and sensory balance within our everyday experience, but also acknowledges how tough it is to achieve and sustain equilibrium. While being off-balance tends to be considered detrimental, a state of being to be worked through and beyond, but being off-kilter can also offer alternate, revealing modes of perception.
When things are considered “on balance” they are reviewed, reflected upon with the aim of reaching some form of overall impression or summation of what has been presented/transpired. On balance invites viewers to be simultaneously present and reflective, to experience these three art works within this specific environment and time signature, but also to keep alert for future art and design investigations within Left Bank through 2012-2013.
More on the exhibition HERE
Our House + Transcode
Trenton Garratt
Clinton Watkins
24 February - 17 March 2012
This exhibition centres on the sculptural and sonic qualities of Our House, a deceptively light-looking sculpture by Trenton Garratt comprising thousands of handmade shards of fired ceramic. Formed into a tall precarious pile, in performance the work is played/activated by the maker. In doing so the sculpture’s form is disturbed, undone, and its sonic qualities exposed.
Clinton Watkins records and transmits the sound, repurposing technology to traverse space and in this case, creating an invisible, high fidelity connection between the Engine Room and the City Gallery in Civic Square. Residue of the performance will remain at both places “post-transmission”.
Both Our House and Transcode could also be thought of as re-mixes. An earlier iteration of the work was shown at Enjoy Public Art Gallery, and the performance collaboration with Clinton Watkins was initially staged at Starkwhite, Auckland in 2011, where captured sounds were harnessed and recorded within one large gallery space.
The deliberate re-staging and re-mixing has two incarnations; the labour-intensive re-making and firing of the ceramic shards, and the re-recording and transmission of the sculpture taking place—but this time between two separate spaces, over a kilometre apart. In the Engine Room the primary presence is the sculpture, and at City Gallery—its sonic properties.
Catalogue available HERE