Past Exhibitions - 2024
Kura Te Waru Rewiri
Taurua Tokorua Takirua
27 Sept- 11 Oct 2024
The Engine Room is pleased to present this special exhibition event featuring a body of painted works by acclaimed artist Kura Te Waru Rewiri. This exhibition brings together a series of works that span over twenty years. Within this collection the artist explores an eclectic visual vocabulary that considers aspects of kōwhaiwhai, patterning, geometry and colour within the seemingly simple notion of “the pair.”
Preview event 5:30pm Thursday 26th Sept.
Mā Wai Rā collective
New Māori Photobooks
Curated by Maximillian Scott-Murray and Mariama Hunia
Opening: Wednesday 7th Aug, 5.30pm; Artist Talk: Sun 11th August, 2.00pm
The Engine Room is proud to present Mā Wai Rā: New Māori Photobooks presenting the work of twelve Māori artists currently working in this format. Featuring works by Ruby Kawiti, Bridget Reweti, Mariama Hunia, Sara Tautuku Orme, Tia Barrett, Hendrix Hennessy-Ropiha, Jazmin Tainui Mihi, Ethan Sheaf Morrison, Māwhereo Kenny, Charlotte Marama, Tiana Krafft-Soffe & Maximillian Scott-Murray the exhibition highlights the photobook's prevalence within current Māori photographic practice and the emergent investment in this mode as carrier of Māori thought and creativity.
Mā Wai Rā is presented as part of the Photo Book NZ Festival 2024. Exhibition runs through August 16th.
https://www.photobooknz.com/
Image: Jazmin Tainui Mihi from their book Rehua
Stella Corkery
Painting Towards A New Feminine Noise
11 -12 July 2024
The Engine Room is excited to present this new body of work by Auckland based artist Stella Corkery for a limited time only. The exhibited works are the visual component for Corkery’s PhD submission entitled Painting Towards a New Feminine Noise.
The work developed through a consideration of changing feminisms, expanded sound and noise and how these ideas might be situated within a feminist visual arts practice. Corkery plays close attention to women in the field of early electronic music and noise during the mid-Twentieth Century and onwards, artists such as Elaine Radigue, Annea Lockwood and Pauline Oliveros. This follows further into our contemporary with a study into the movements of Riot Grrrl including post Riot Grrrl electro and their re-evaluations of 1980’s No-Wave and Post Punk.
For more on Stella’s work see: https://michaellett.com/artist/stella-corkery/
The chronicle of <a new love order>
Miranda Bellamy + Amanda Fauteux
Simon Endres
Kat Lang
Shannon Novak
Erica Sklenars
22nd May - 21st June 2024
I call this number, for a data date, I don’t know what to do, I need a rendezvous
– Computer Love (1981) Kraftwerk
From the dance floor to the dating app, computer technology has played an important role in servicing our emotional needs and desires for decades. Now with rapid advancements in AI, this emotional dependency has become enmeshed in our digital everyday in ways that are hard to notice and understand.
The chronicle of < a new love order > prompts a conversation on computer mediated emotional states through a range of artworks and contributions from AI. Works address topics such as … sexual identity and social acceptance, IRL replicants and online avatars, algorithms and desire ….
The chronicle of < _______ > is accessible via a series of printed publications, exhibitions, events, and the website www.thechronicleof.nz
The exhibition is part of the Aotearoa Digital Arts Network 2024 symposium Rising Algorithms: Navigate, Automate, Dream
For more info:
https://ada.net.nz/events/rising-algorithms/
https://www.thechronicleof.nz/a-new-love-order
Image: Photographer - Ted Whitaker