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Various Artists with Sofia & Maya

Join Sofia and Maya for kōrero with artists and creative types from the wide art world of Tāmaki Makaurau and beyond!

Ruminations: Encrypting My Mother Tongue w/ Anthony Zemke: 28th February, 2025

Ruminations: Encrypting My Mother Tongue w/ Anthony Zemke: 28th February, 2025 Ruminations: Encrypting My Mother Tongue w/ Anthony Zemke: 28th February, 2025, 14.16 MB
Fri 28 Feb 2025

Ruminations: Encrypting My Mother Tongue is a new exhibition by artist Anthony Zemke showing as part of the Te Ahurei Toi o Tāmaki Auckland Arts Festival. It is a ‘visual exploration of the struggle faced by diasporic and mixed-race individuals to connect with a mother tongue they may never know’ (Auckland Arts Festival).

The exhibition runs through the festival of Naw-Rúz (Nowruz) which is celebrated as a time of renewal, reconnection and reflection by Iranians, Baháʼís, and various other communities.

The series of paintings and drawings aim to transform feelings of shame and guilt into celebrations of heritage and belonging through calligraphic abstraction. 

Beth had a kōrero with Anthony about Ruminations

Various Artists w/ Beth and Sofia: 28th February, 2025

Various Artists w/ Beth and Sofia: 28th February, 2025 Various Artists w/ Beth and Sofia: 28th February, 2025, 109.82 MB
Fri 28 Feb 2025

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Sofia had a kōrero with curator of contemporary art at Gus Fisher Gallery, Lisa Beauchamp, about Having It All, All, All - a new exhibition bringing together international artists whose work has been pivotal for the re-evaluation of female subjectivity in art. 

Beth had a kōrero with artist Anthony Zemke about his new exhibition, Ruminations: Encrypting My Mother Tongue, currently showing at Studio One Toi Tū.

And for Stage Direction this week, Brynley Stent joined Alice Canton in the studio to speak about Frigidton!

Having it All, All, All w/ Lisa Beauchamp: 28th February, 2025

Having it All, All, All w/ Lisa Beauchamp: 28th February, 2025 Having it All, All, All w/ Lisa Beauchamp: 28th February, 2025, 31.97 MB
Fri 28 Feb 2025

Having it All, All, All is a new group exhibition at Gus Fisher Gallery composed of nine international artists whose work has been pivotal in the reimagination of female subjectivity in art.

The exhibition is showing select video and performance art by the likes of Ana Mendieta (Cuba/USA), Yoko Ono (Japan/USA), Howardena Pindell (USA), Pipilotti Rist (Switzerland), Martha Rosler (USA), Christa Schadt (Canada), Janice Tanaka (USA), Hannah Wilke (USA), and Nil Yalter (Turkey/France). 

Spanning the 1960s to 1990s, Having it All, All, All delves into the activism and identity politics associated with Second Wave Feminism and its critics.

Sofia spoke to curator of contemporary art at Gus Fisher Gallery, Lisa Beauchamp, about the exhibition, her curation process, and the impact of these works on feminist politics as seen through a contemporary perspective.

Chicken Poems w/ Oscar and Sophie Bannan: 21st February, 2025

Chicken Poems w/ Oscar and Sophie Bannan: 21st February, 2025 Chicken Poems w/ Oscar and Sophie Bannan: 21st February, 2025, 15.27 MB
Fri 21 Feb 2025

Chicken Poems is a a new body of collaborative and parallel work by artists and siblings Oscar and Sophie Bannan. The exhibition includes collage, photography, video and sculpture.

Artnow writes that ‘each work is conceived as a visual poem that explores radical intimacies with time, and the creation of meaning through image/object relationships. Thematically, their work explores rhythms of living such as cooking and food, domestic chores, personal ritual, familial and romantic relationships’.

For the exhibition, Sophie and Oscar have made a moving image work using existing dance films made of and by the siblings over the past thirty years.

Beth had a kōrero with Oscar and Sophie about Chicken Poems, which is showing at the Gus Fisher Gallery until the 10th of May.

Various Artists w/ Beth and Sofia: 21st February, 2025

Various Artists w/ Beth and Sofia: 21st February, 2025 Various Artists w/ Beth and Sofia: 21st February, 2025, 112.42 MB
Fri 21 Feb 2025

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Sofia had a kōrero with the Assistant Curator at Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery, Hester Rowan, about Soft Spot - a new group exhibition showing Claudia Kogachi, Ming Ranginui, and Erica van Zon. 

Beth spoke with artists and siblings Oscar and Sophie Bannan about Chicken Poems, a new body of collaborative and parallel work opening today at Gus Fisher Gallery.

And for Stage Direction this week, Ahi Karunaharan joined Beth and Sofia in the studio to speak about a mixtape for maladies.

Whakarongo mai e te whānau! x

Soft Spot w/ Assistant Curator at Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery, Hester Rowan: 21st February, 2025

Soft Spot w/ Assistant Curator at Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery, Hester Rowan: 21st February, 2025 Soft Spot w/ Assistant Curator at Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery, Hester Rowan: 21st February, 2025, 13.78 MB
Fri 21 Feb 2025

Soft Spot is a new group exhibition showing Claudia Kogachi, Erica Van Zon, and Ming Ranginui at Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery. 

Through their respective practices, Kogachi, Van Zon, and Ranginui engage with the home conceptually and formally, depicting household items and activities while working with craft modes often associated with domestic furnishings such as rug making, carpentry, and needlework.

Sofia spoke with curator of Soft Spot, Hester Rowan, about the exhibition, her curation process, and the themes of Soft Spot.

Swan Crash w/ artist Tony Guo: 14th February, 2025

Swan Crash w/ artist Tony Guo: 14th February, 2025 Swan Crash w/ artist Tony Guo: 14th February, 2025, 17.26 MB
Fri 14 Feb 2025

Swan Crash is an new exhibition by artist Tony Guo at Season Gallery Aotearoa. 

Guo is a painter born in Aotearoa New Zealand who grew up in Northeast China and moved to Tāmaki Makaurau in 2012. 

Although informed by particular experiences and histories connecting back to his parents’ and grandparents’ experiences in northeastern China in the 20th century and his queerness, Guo’s works invite shifting and multiple interpretations. 

Sofia spoke to Guo about his artistic practice, the ideas within his works, and his process.

Various Artists w/ Beth and Sofia: 14th February, 2025

Various Artists w/ Beth and Sofia: 14th February, 2025 Various Artists w/ Beth and Sofia: 14th February, 2025, 115.01 MB
Fri 14 Feb 2025

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Sofia spoke with artist Tony Guo about his current exhibition at Season Aotearoa, Swan Crash

Beth spoke with board members of LGBTQ+ writers festival Samesame but different, Pip Adam and Nathan Joe, about the programme this year. 

And for Stage Direction this week, Alice Canton spoke with artistic director of Auckland Arts Festival, Bernie Haldane. 

Samesame but different Festival w/ Pip Adam & Nathan Joe: 14th February, 2025

Samesame but different Festival w/ Pip Adam & Nathan Joe: 14th February, 2025 Samesame but different Festival w/ Pip Adam & Nathan Joe: 14th February, 2025, 21.31 MB
Fri 14 Feb 2025

Samesame but different is Tāmaki Makaurau’s annual LGBTQ+ writers festival.

Launched in 2016 by writer Peter Wells, the goal for the festival is to be ‘an exciting event that makes people think about sexuality, difference and community, stretches their understanding, gives them a few laughs and creates a slightly magic space for two days in February’.

Pip Adam, author of Ockham-nominated novel Audition (2023), and Nathan Joe,  award-winning theatre-maker and performance poet, are both board members of Samesame but different.

Beth caught up with Pip and Nathan about the festival this year

Saudade w/ Loren Marks: February 7th, 2025

Saudade w/ Loren Marks: February 7th, 2025 Saudade w/ Loren Marks: February 7th, 2025, 6.75 MB
Fri 7 Feb 2025

Saudade is a solo exhibition showing Naarm/Tāmaki Makaurau based artist, Loren Marks, at Sanderson Gallery.

Sanderson writes that [Loren’s] ‘artworks present ethereal and dreamlike scenes whereby figures emerge from the alchemic realms of paint’.

The works in this exhibition experiment with Helen Frankenthaler’s ‘soak-stain’ technique. Often abstracted, each absorbs the viewer into its individual world of vivid imagery and colour.

Beth had a kōrero with Loren about Saudade and her creative process