With a focus more on fun than funny, Flight of the Conchords’ Bret McKenzie breaks down Freak Out City, chatting about it track by track with Hunter for Long Player.
Séraphine Pick is one of Aotearoa’s most celebrated painters, with a career spanning 30 years in which Pick investigates human experience through the material language of paint.
Her paintings circulate this tension between figuration and its collapse, often bringing the figure forth into her ethereal compositions and then dissolving them back into themselves.
This new body of work presented within Paintingscontinues Pick's exploration of material dissolution and figural density, displaying a rich navigation of material applications. Each work leans into its own materiality, some soft and delicate, while others thick and textural. An act of deep listening and responding to the paintings themselves, with pic circling back to former ways of making through a new lens.
Maya had a kōrero with Séraphine about the show and overall practice.
Happy Rāmere e hoa mā! Today on show, Milly and Rosetta chat all things Ska for Travelling Tunes, Ninajirachi is up in studio for a kōrero about her new album + shows in Aotearoa, and Cam from Southbound chats about some of the new releases out on the shelves today for From The Crate! Whakarongo mai nei!
Playlist
Tippa Lee meets the Naram Rhythm Section - Musically Bad
Kennebec, Joe Armon-Jones, Sudan Archives, Hemlock Ernst - Tall Tales
Milly and Rosetta are fizzing to have Australian DJ and producer Ninajirachi up in the studio - chatting about her new album I Love My Computer, and shows with Nympho in Tāmaki Makaurau and Te Whanganui a Tara this weekend! Whakarongo mai nei!
We Went to the Edges of Time is a new solo exhibition by artist Kathy Barry currently on at Melanie Roger Gallery.
Based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Barry represented Aotearoa on the international stage at the 32nd São Paolo Biennal in 2016, and was selected in 2023 as the recipient of the prestigious C Art Trust Award. Her first substantial survey exhibition in a public installation, Energy Work, with artist Sarah Smuts-Kennedy, was curated by Christina Barton for Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery in 2022.
In We Went to the Edges of Time, Barry has further explored the mode of making that has underpinned her practice since 2012, where she lets go of artistic agency, letting energy fields guide her watercolour drawings.
Through a series of geometric mappings, the viewer is pulled into the energetic frequencies of Barry’s work and invited down a pathway of sorts to healing beyond familiar dimensions.
Sofia had a kōrero with Kathy Barry about the exhibition, her process, and these ideas of relinquishing artistic agency.
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