Chaos Magic is an exhibition by Matt Joils currently on at Window Gallery. Based in Tāmaki, Joils is a painter whose works draw from visual elements found organically online and graphic design in the urban wild.
In response to Mark Fisher’s publication ‘Capitalist Realism’, the exhibition consists of a series of a small-scale abstract painting installation and a large depiction of Garfield.
Sofia spoke to Matt about his practice and the exhibition, on until October 18th.
Terrifying Thursday Drive has risen from the dead with the help of Milly the Monster!!! Get ready for some terrifying tunes, Hallo-weed with Chris Fowley, Scary Stories with DJ Matthew Creepy Crawly, Halloween potions with Nami Record Bar and two ghost come all the way from the 1960's production of Oliver Twist to tell us about Live Music Bar an online web series presented by UTR, and produced by Sports Team (who are definitely not the ghosts)! Jam packed and sure to scare the s*** out of you!
Thursday's Halloween Special just got better as two ghosts killed while performing 'Oliver Twist' finally reveal themselves as what's been haunting 95bFM this whole time. They chat about all sorts including Live Music Bar, Aotearoa’s new musical web series — presented by UTR, produced by Sports Team, which has released its final episode featuring Who Shot Scott. The ghosts are definitely not Sports Team.
Renowned Aotearoa artist Michael Shepherd’s latest series, The Disasters of War, is currently being exhibited at Two Rooms Gallery.
Two Rooms explains that ‘these latest works show the silent reality faced by New Zealand’s threatened flora. Many endangered species, like Olearia adenocarpa, Carmichaelia muritai, Myosotis brevis and Poa spania endure in small, often highly modified fragments that sit firmly outside the public view (and imagination)’.
The artistic ethos of Romantic painter Goya is a constant throughout The Disasters of War. Each of Shepherd’s works are framed by black and feature the words, ‘Deaf like Goya’.
Beth spoke with Shepherd about the exhibition, which opened today at Two Rooms Gallery.
Dean Rankine is a Ledger and Stanley Award winning comic book artist, illustrator and writer best known for his work on Simpsons Comics and Rick and Morty. He is the writer/illustrator of the new book series Death Metal Emo Elves (Redback Publishing).
Dean is also the creator of Aussie Comic Book Day - an Australia wide celebration of local creators and their work (on the 3rd Saturday in November).
Dean will be an artist at Wintergeddon on June 14th. Beth caught up with Dean about illustrating, working on the Simpsons comics and what he’s up to. Tune in!
Pouring Light is an exhibition by artist Sandra Bushby currently showing at Sumer Gallery. It’s an exploration of the interplay of light and colour, comprising a series of oil paintings as well as watercolours and (goo-arsh) gouache.
Sandra draws inspiration from the late Joanna Margaret Paul, in particular her poem Blue Fleur with the Stations of the Cross (1971). The works in Pouring Light combine the visual with verbal poetry.
Beth caught up with Sandra at Sumer Gallery to kōrero about Pouring Light and her artmaking process.
Simon Grigg chats to Rosetta about the influence of the Harlequin recording studio and the career of Doug Rogers. Check out Simon Grigg's six-part series on the AudioCulture website here.
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.
From the landscapes of New Mexico, jazz affiocinado Delbert Anderson joins Sofia Kent on 95bFM for the upcoming Auckland Arts Festival Indigenous Music Series.
Anderson describes the intepretation of inherited stories and Diné values into the jazz melodies that simultaneously educate and uplift
"I hope it's more than just good music.. taking those stories away and creating awareness, letting people know the Diné tribe is still around and will be around for a very long time"
e kō, nō hea koe is the debut poetry collection by award-winning slam poet and filmmaker Matariki Bennett (Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Hinerangi).
Published by Dead Bird Books, e kō, nō hea koe is “a series of goodbyes and attempts to slow the shedding, it's a group of teenagers sparking up as they watch the great pacific garbage patch catapult into space and become a second moon, it's endless conversations with Grandmama about stars, it is the constant rebirth of whakapapa and learning that silence isn’t the best part of her.”
Sofia caught up with Matariki about the themes of this body of work and how it came to fruition.
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