This week Sofie flies solo, sans Jude! Joined by the wonderful Gabi, the show storms through the miserable weather with some sunny feel-good tracks and a sprinkling of English & Russian Post Punk.
Heaven is the place where nothing ever happens, ya frothers! Heaven is the mighty B. ⛅🧘💫🌌🪄
Zac Langdon-Pole is a Tāmaki-based artist whose primarily sculptural-based practice explores contrasting concepts and imagery, proposing unlikely juxtapositions into these often hybrid forms.
His current solo exhibition at Lett Thomas Gallery, Caterpillar Soup, presents a series of jigsaw puzzle collages, whereby the artist has placed the pieces of puzzles to make these combined collaged images. Imagery of warfare, volcanic matter, nature, and diagnostic imaging melded together, creating this almost pixelated, technological material language, the works question what these juxtaposing forms could mean in conversation with each other.
Sof caught up with Zac about the show at Lett Thomas and his wider practice. They also touched briefly on his project currently showing at the Domain Wintergardens titled Memory Garden (The Kiss).
This week we heard from Jeremy Cosmo Potts, about his first ever solo art show, which is a sort of hilarious/slightly hideous selection paintings and drawings, full of frogs, crab claws, watering cans, sex and debauchery. Then we talked to Sarah Mohawk about her show at Window Gallery, called Electronic Super Highway. Its stems from a paper titled ‘Autonomous Vehicles Need Experimental Ethics: Are We Ready for Utilitarian Cars?’ and explores the ethics involved when a self driving car is about to hit a group of people. Finally we hear from Dan Sanders about his contribution to the show titled "I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, because I don’t hate you; I love you…", which is associated with the Auckland Pride Festival.
Ayesha Green's solo show "The Spirit of the Thing Given (Māori)" is on now at RM Gallery. She also has a show at Papakura Art Gallery opening on Saturday, and work in Artspace. We had a hearty chat about the context from which her paintings and ceramics spring - a Māori history of tourism in New Zealand, the relationship between the earth and the crown, the likes of Sherpa Tenzing's role in our national consciousness.
We also recognise the significant role the Vito Acconci (January 24, 1940 – April 27, 2017)
played in the world of performance and installation art, and architecture. Theo gives us a bit of a run down and we hear some clips from his work.
We speak to lawyer Graeme Edgeler about The Taxpayers' Union 'invoicing' Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei, saying she must pay back the "money she stole from taxpayers", before she can have any credibility as a Member of Parliament. They put the figure at $57,000 but Edgeler says that number doesn't add up.
The statment is referring to Turei's admission that when she was a solo mum in the early 90's she lied to WINZ about her living situation so that her benefit wouldn't get cut.
We then speak to the Executive Director of The Taxpayers Union about Edgeler’s concerns with the figures, and our own calculations which showed the figure to be much lower.
Raukura Turei, of Ngaitai ki Tāmaki and Ngā Rauru is a registered architect who has found her visual art practice a powerful tool to clearly communicate ideas without the constraints found in architecture. Turei is about to launch her first ever solo exhibition in a gallery.
Currently she has a show at Objectspace but at the beginning of next month, her own show, titled Self is her way of giving back to women around her. It offers an intimate reflection of the body, and on our embodied relationships to space and each other. The works are a cathartic meditation saturated in the female form, sitting between self expansion and self obsession.
I spoke with her for quite a long time about how she came to be an artist as well as an architect and how these works came about. If you want to hear the full interview, check out the bcasts on our website. For now, here’s a section from the interview where she tells us about the show at Objectspace, her more recent influences, and the upcoming show.
On the wire today, Allan Blackman tells us how dogs can add years to a human's life, discusses what a head transplant is as opposed to a body transplant, and whether Chuck Norris will win in the courts.
Tracey Martin from NZ First tells us about their position on the newly adjusted CPTPPA and her response to the Green Party's accidental email last week.
The West Coast Regional Council and Buller District Council today granted resource consent for the approximately 150 hectare opencast coal mine, Jen Miller from Forest and Bird tells us why this is a bad idea.
Raukura Turei is an architect and an artist, her first solo exhibition in a gallery, SELF, opens next month. We hear about the show and her influences.
Annabelle Lee is executive producer of The Hui and has a chat with Lillian Hanly about working toward more accurate and empathetic journalism.
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