Past Exhibitions - 2013
Strange Baroque Ecologies
Ben Buchanan
Malcolm Doidge
Douglas Bagnall
22-24 November 2013
If ecology is the “study of organisms in relation to one another and to their surroundings” (the Pocket Oxford), then Strange Baroque Ecologies seeks to interrogate how theories of the baroque may be usefully applied to better understand those relationships here.
The exhibition takes place in connection with the Symposium Strange Baroque Ecologies 21-23 November 2013.
New Ways to Colour Walls: The Wellington Project
Christoph Dahlhausen (Germany)
9 - 20 November 2013
New Ways to Colour Walls: The Wellington Project focuses on the question of what it means to extend a show. The project combines an exhibition at The Engine Room of Massey University with further levels of art presentation. The other aspect of this exhibition, and central idea to this project, is the idea of widening this presentation into the world outside the gallery, without being street art or environmental art.
In cooperation with the Goethe-Institute and College of Creative Arts.
http://wellingtondotproject.tumblr.com
Christoph Dahlhausen’s practice explores reflection and colour, using glass and mirror through installation in architectural space. A feature common to his works is how they explore light, an entity essential to both human well being and perception. All his works, whether realised as installations in the context of a project or as a commissioned piece are site-specific in character. Dahlhausen does not think in terms of the small format, but of sizeable new interventions focusing on light and glass. For several years now, he has been designing large-scale glass facades. For these he applies coloured, translucent films to these facades so that the interiors are defined in new ways, whether through direct sunlight or the formation of unfamiliar shadows.
Calling The Peeling
Phil Dadson
1 - 18 October 2013
Philip Dadson is a New Zealand musician and artist, who was in the foundation group of Cornelius Cardew’s Scratch Orchestra and founder of Aotearoa’s From Scratch. He was made an Arts Laureate by the Arts Foundation of New Zealand in 2001, and an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2005. He co-authored the 2007 book Slap Tubes and other Plosive Aerophones with fellow instrument inventor Bart Hopkin, whose 1998 CD/book Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones had also featured Dadson's group From Scratch.
New
Monica Buchan-Ng
Malcolm Doidge
Charles MacPherson
Por Boontoum
Mica Hubertus Mick
18-20 September 2013
New work by five Year 1 MFA students from the College of Creative Arts, organised as a series of three exhibitions across two weeks, each project inhabits the gallery in different ways and with different intentions.
The Long Cloud
Steve Gurysh
22 August - 13 September 2013
Steve Gurysh’s work investigates economies of energy. In his practice the act of storytelling becomes activated by a productive process, weaving allegorical frameworks, historical narrative and invented experience into potent objects and temporal propositions.
Researching the ‘nuclear issue’ between Aotearoa New Zealand and the USA, The Long Cloud is a new project in which Gurysh compresses the international transit and transmutation of a sample of New Zealand uranium ore into a charged photographic object. Steve describes his work as “concerned with contemporary encounters of energy, phenomena which emerge from the everyday to the miraculous, from the municipal to the mythological.” His practice of making and performing with objects investigates modes of production, distribution, and storage through photography, sculpture, research and experimentation.
22nd August: Conversation in the gallery with Steve Gurysh & Gil Hanly; 23rd August: Steve Gurysh artist lecture, Museum Building 10A02
Steve Gurysh recently was awarded his MFA degree from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and now resides in Auckland. His work has been exhibited at 1708 Gallery in Richmond, VA, La Société des arts technologiques in Montréal, and Cabinet Magazine Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.
The Weakness Of Material
Blaine Western and Michael Parr
22 July - 2 August 2013, opening 19 July 2013
Cut Paste Donkey
Group Exhibition
16 - 31 May 2013
Cut Paste Donkey shows work across all year levels in Fine Arts at Massey University to highlight the continuing validity of collage as a methodology and a critical format.
Artists:
Nick Clitheroe, Lucy Ryan, Callum Devlin, Adrian McCleland, Jono Nott, Jung Shim Krefft, Rebecca Fisher, Alexandra Batley, Rebekah Boyland, Jayden Wairau, Willow McCarthy, Mandy Boyde, Sora Khinose, Jay Krefft
Ghost Materialities
Jem Noble
Friday 19 April at 5.30 pm
A short essay/performance and 2 x 25 min structural film edits (Jem Noble): Ghosts Of The Civil Dead (John Hillcoat, 1988); They Live (John Carpenter, 1988).
Jem Noble’s essay/performance coincides with artist Gary Peters’s last day of his residency at The Engine Room.
Residency
Gary Peters
18 March - 19 April 2013
A year later and Gary Peters is back at The Engine Room, where he showed his final artworks as MFA student at School of Fine Arts in 2012.
"For this unexpected residency I've taken forms discovered during my six month residency at Sydney Non-Objective Contemporary Art Projects and have brought them to the Engine Room. In making these new colourful paintings / objects I'm keen to see how my site specific wall works travel and transform to exist in a different space."
Master of Fine Arts
Graduate Exhibition
9 - 17 February 2013
Adi Brown, Jonathan Cameron, Jessica Chubb, Mike Heynes, Rebecca Holden, Melissa Irving, Jonathan Kay, Katherine Joyce-Kellaway, Ryan McCauley, Jhana Millers, Roberto Paulet, Shannon Reed, Maria Sainsbury, and Brenda Sullivan
Image: Maria Sainsbury