Artbank has got you sussed for arty stuff happening in Tāmaki Makaurau and beyond. With interviews, live performances, your weekly gallery guide and more - come get some culture in ya with Theo. Ka rawe!
This week Theo is joined by Teresa Peters, discussing her work ECHOES, which has won the premier award at the 2021 Portage Ceramic awards, and Chelsea Nichols and Aaron Lister, talking about their instagram-based project Curator of Screams.
Playlist
Julien Dyne - Scoop feat. Che Fu
Betamax Vs Clive Bell - Luminosity Cuffs
Gong Gong Gong 工工工 - Some Kind of Demon 某一種惡魔 [Yu Su Remix]
The week's first guest is Emelia French, an artist and researcher whose work “thingamajiggies” is on display now at Te Uru Gallery within the 2021 Portage Ceramic Awards.The second guest is Alexandra Turner, a graphic designer with Inhouse Design, who won the HACHETTE AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND EMERGING DESIGNER AWARD, and shares the PANZ AWARD FOR BEST TYPOGRAPHY (for Billy Apple®: Life/Work by Christina Barton), at the 2021 PANZ Book Design Awards.
Filmmaking is a theme of this morning’s program. In the first half of the show Theo spoke to Tim Wong about The Gosden Years, a new book out from Victoria University Press which collects the programming notes of New Zealand International Film Festival director Bill Gosden. In the second half he was joined from Pōneke by Max Fleury and Anna Brimer to discuss their joint exhibition Be The Hero of Your Own Movie.
Playlist
Pigeon - Yagana
bb gurl - ttyl feat. Amamelia & Treenurse
Rick Shrimp - Ultraviolet
Michael James Keane - Ceramic Tide
Big Thief - Time Escaping
Ben LaMar Gay - Lean Back. Try Igbo feat. Onye Ozuzu
Theo spoke with Daniel and Rebecca Nash about their new picture book Wilbur’s Walk, and then Hanahiva Rose, who has curated Stars Start Falling at Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Art Gallery.
Playlist
The Glass Picture - CD Ballad
Eden Burns - Harderthan
LIPS - Heave Ho
Vera Ellen - Heart In Reaction
Courtney Barnett - Turning Green
Mitski - The Only Heartbreaker
Logic1000 - It's All Around
Dimmer - Drift
Roy Montgomery - Rhymes of Chance Pt 5 feat. Emma Johnston
In the first half of the programme, Theo spoke to Gale Mahood, director of Artistic planning at the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, about the APO's 2022 Season. In the second half of the show, author and journalist Steve Braunias discussed his new book Cover Story, 100 beautiful, strange, and frankly incredible New Zealand LP covers.
Playlist
Obongjayar - Message In A Hammer
Miss Leading - Self Help
Yaeji - PAC-TIVE feat. DiAN
Roy Montgomery - Rhymes of Chance Pt 5 feat. Emma Johnston
In the first half of the program, Theo spoke to Nââwié Tutugoro about their contributions to Bling Ring, a group exhibition at Enjoy Contemporary art space. Later on, Honey Brown discussed their work in the group exhibition World Made of steel, made of stone, at The Physics Room.
A spooky Halloween Artbank today! Theo is joined by artist Ronnie van Hout to talk about Ronnie's career-long interest in b-movies and outcasts. Later on, novelist Kirsten McDougall discusses She’s a Killer, available now from Victoria University Press.
In the first half of this week's Artbank, Claire Harris talks about medicine, suspense, and stop-motion in relation to her exhibition Wound Whistled Air at Toi Pōneke. Later on, Daphne Simons joins Theo for a chat about adapting her RM Gallery exhibition Poison Pawn to an online format.
Playlist
serpentwithfeet - Down Nuh River
Uncanny Valley - Money or Time
Space Bats, Attack! - 90s
Race Banyon - Attention
Reb Fountain - Invisible Man
The Biscuits - She's Strong
Look Blue Go Purple - Circumspect Penelope
Princess Chelsea - The Loneliest Girl
Eartheater - Scripture
The Slits - Love Und Romance
Talking Heads - Who is it? [Live]
Drake - Share
Frank Zappa - The Uncle Meat Variations
Little Simz - Time Travels (ft. Tilla, Chuck20 x Josh Arcé)
In the first half of the show, cartoonist and filmmaker Dash Shaw joins Theo to discuss his new book Discipline, available now from New York Review Books. Later on, Courtney from Lamplight Books in Parnell tells Theo about new releases for the latter half of the year, and talks about what it is like operating a bookstore at level three.
Playlist
Race Banyon - Attention
The KVB - Unité
Yeule - Don't Be So Hard on Your Own Beauty
BUB - King of Wands
Bonobo - Rosewood
CHAII - Get It Done
christoph el' truento - orbit
King Softy - Drembot feat. Yuki
Marlin's Dreaming - Sink or Swim
Lunavela - Six-out-of-Ten Friend
Vera Ellen - The Language of Flowers
Wale - The Opening Title Sequence
Noname - Forever (ft. Ravyn Lenar & Joseph Chilliams)
Chris Price and Bruce Foster joined Theo in part one of this week’s show to discuss The Lobster’s Tale, their collaborative book available now from Massey University Press. In the latter half, Adam Art Gallery curator Christina Barton came on to talk about the exhibition Image Processors
Artists in the Medium – A Short History 1968–2020.
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