This week we have curator Kari Schmidt in studio to talk about 125 years of women's suffrage through and intersectional femist lens. Kari and her sister are co-curating an exhibition around these themes to be held in Dunedin in September. Plus Theo wraps up his film fest reviews for another year, and Jackson has you sussed with Sunday Painter. Cool!
Berlin-based artist Biljana Popovic chats to Rachel about her work Synthetic Babyat the Physics Room in Christchurch. Plus the team from Mayonez gallery in Grey Lynn chat about making an artist-run space work in expenny Auckland. Finally we hear from Ellie Rowsell, frontwoman of Wolf Alice (the winners of the 2018 Mercury Award Prize) ahead of their gig at the Powerstation tonight. Wild!
Rachel's back from Te Wai Pounamu this week with plenty of good tunes and arty stuff for ya Sunday morning. Arapeta Ashton is in studio to talk about their art practice and traditional Māori cloak weaving; plus Sam Longmore from the Audio Foundation brings us some top picks from the upcoming Nowhere! festival- showcasing avant-garde sonics from Aotearoa and beyond. Sweet!
It's Labour Day! Rachel and Jenn (and Paddy!) are in studio playing tunes for your long weekend brekky. Listen back for plenty of good music from the likes of Talking Heads, Japanese Breakfast, Blood Orange and Billy Bragg- plus a Labour day themed final call chosen by you guys!
This week Sophie Bannan chats to Rachel about her show with Daegan Wells at Meanwhile Gallery: Hut For a Sensuous Goldminer, opening this wednesday. Plus Kraus and Floris Vanhoof are in studio talking about their tour of New Zealand and Floris' upcoming exhibition at the Audio Foundation. Floris Vanhoof is a Belgian filmmaker, musician, instrument builder, performer and visual artist based in Antwerp.
Rachel's back this week with a conversation from Meanwhile gallery in wellington. Plus Lisa Beauchamp from the Gus Fisher gallery has a few exciting details about the new direction the gallery will be taking next year with its grand reopening in April!
On Wednesday drive we've got Steve up for Flicks And That to discuss cinema ettiqute, and Lisa up for So Many Sports to discuss bowls3five. Plus Finn Andrews from The Veils.
It's the Elam Grad show this weekend and Gyorgika Farrelly, the galleries coordinator, is up in the studio to tell us about it. We also listen back to an earlier interview with Ayesha Green in honour of her show Māori Girl opening at Blue Oyster Art Space. Plus Rachel's brother Ben gives us a run down of Childish Gambino's brainchild festival Pharos. Sick!
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