Saturday, June 20, 2015

Billy Apple®: The Artist Has To Live Like Everybody Else closes with a sound performance


Billy Apple®: The Artist Has To Live Like Everybody Else closes at the Auckland Art Gallery this weekend with a performance. Jazz musician Nathan Haines leads a quartet assembled for a sound performance of the Billy Apple-Jonathan Besser score Quartet. The performance is in the gallery's North Atrium, 1-2pm, free admission.
Image: Billy Apple@, January 2012, acrylic on canvas, 800 x 800mm 

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Martin Basher's A Guide to Benefits at ANAT EBGI, LA








Martin Basher's exhibition A Guide to Benefits is showing at ANAT EBGI in Los Angeles from 13 June to 25 July.
Images: Installation views of A Guide to Benefits at ANAT EBGI, June 2015

Billy Apple sound works at Te Uru


This link takes you to a review of Billy Apple Sound Works at Te Uru, a satellite exhibition curated by Andrew Clifford and staged at the time of the Billy Apple® survey exhibition at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, which closes this weekend.
Image: installation view of Billy Apple Sound Works at Te Uru

Friday, June 5, 2015

Art as a Verb at Artspace, Sydney


Billy Apple and Alicia Frankovich are represented in Art as a Verb, which opened last night at Artspace, Sydney. Curated by Charlotte Day, Francis E Parker and Patrice Sharkey for Monash University of Art, the exhibition takes as its departure point the concept of art as action, presenting projects from the 1990s to the present challenge the traditional role of the artist and the site of the museum. What constitutes the work of an artists? How do the varying roles of artist (an instigator, facilitator, teacher, performer, consumer or visionary) for within broader society? And how does the museum support art forms that function beyond the art object?
Image: Alicia Frankovich, Not Yet Titled, 2014, stainless steel, Thera bands, drink bottle, shoe lace, 80 x 90 x 45 cm. Exhibition view, Kunstverein Hildeheim

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

A novel presentation of Gavin Hipkins' Erewhon at the Mangare Arts Centre






On Saturday 6 June, the Mangare Arts Centre Nga Tohu o Uenuku presents Gavin Hipkins' feature length film Erewhon, which is based on the 1972 novel by Samuel Butler. The film's narrator Mia Blake and composer Rachel Shearer will deliver a live soundtrack and voice performance in conjunction with the screening which takes place from 1-2pm.

Erewhon: the Book of the Machines, which combines photographs from the film with a 26 minute film extract, is also showing at the Forrester Gallery, timed to coincide with Oamuaru's 2015 Steampunk festival.
Images: Gavin Hipkins Erewhon (Mountains)Erewhon (Planet) and Erewhon (Forest) 2014, archival pigment prints, 600 x 337mm  

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Laith McGregor opens tonight at Starkwhite



Laith McGregor's exhibition Somewhere Anywhere opens at tonight Starkwhite, 6-8pm, and runs to 4 July 2015.
Image: Laith McGregor, Terry (2015), pencil on paper, 30 x 40 cm; installation view of Somewhere Anywhere, Starkwhite July 2015