The most exciting weekend in the Auckland small press calender has been announced, with the Auckland Zine Fest Marketplace coming up from August 5th-6th at Auckland Art Gallery.
Applicatons to join the marekt and become a stallholder will be open throughout the month of May, so we bought Josh Nelson (@joshprobably on IG) from the Auckland Zine Fest team up to the studio to chat about the market, the plans for this year, and how people can get involved.
More information, including the form to apply for a stall, can be found here.
Frances speaks to Shona Tawhiao who has a new show opening at Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery and to Mags Delaney-Moffatt from Pumphouse Theatre about their Creative Talks evenings
Liam chats to Thomas Barrer from Õtautahi’s Fnife Games about their queer indie game 'Small Town Emo'.
And of course, your local arts guide for Tāmaki Makaurau over the next week. Get amongst it!
We got a Various Artists all sorts on the show today! E Whai Ake Nei:
Frances has a live chat with Eiko Olykan about his show Believe in the Journey, a duo exhibition with Grace Crothall opening on Karangahape Road next week.
Liam had a chat to Jazmine Rose Phillips about their show Their Feet Did Not Touch The Ground, a performance art piece based around recorded conversations with detained refugee Farhad Bandesh.
Frances speaks to award winning author Catherine Chidgey about her new psychological thriller Pet.
I also had a chat with Johanna Cosgrove about her bonkers stand up comedy show Hi, Delusion!
Welcome back to Thursday Morning Glory! This week, Sam brings Liam on for a fairly continuous mix, delving into the deeper side of electronic music. There's a couple tributes to Leon Vynehall, and some Southern Hemisphere producers working in that relm, such as Nice Girl and Sleep D. Keep it on the b!
A radical theatre troupe which emerged out of New Zealand’s counterculture in the early 1970s is the subject of Red Mole: A Romance, a new film by Professor Annie Goldson with strong links to the University of Auckland. It premieres at the 2023 Whānau Mārama International Film Festival (opening 19 July) on 4 and 5 August at the ASB Waterfront Theatre. To hear about the film Frances caught up with Annie on Various Artists this week.
CIRCUIT, the platform dedicated to supporting Moving Image Artists, is about to release Otherwise Worlding, a new reader on artists’ animation featuring essays, conversations, and a playthrough of an interactive game.
CIRCUT ask How can animation in contemporary moving image practices be critical of the commercial demand for spectacle and efficiency? How can it serve as a tool for worldbuilding and re-imagining history beyond imperialist, white, cis, male-dominated narratives?
No small questions. To hear about the reader and the opening event Frances caught up with CIRCUIT director Mark Williams on Various Artists.
On Fashun, Penelope Noir chats about MSCHF’s ginormous boots and their collab with Crocs. Haz and Miloux are in the studio talking about their new EP, Brunette. Jed Parsons talks about his show at Basement Theatre, A Very “Jed Parsons” Christmas, which opens tomorrow night. Whakarongo mai nei!
Just last night at Studio 445 on Karangahape Road, the Without Appeal Collective’s ‘A Garden To Banish Loneliness’ window exhibition had its opening night.
The exhibition will be on until the sixteenth of August, and explore collaborators Will Greeson and Iulia Boscu take on a futuristic sci-fi landscape that reassess the optimism that used to be in futuristic fiction.
Liam had a chat with the duo to learn more about the exhibition and what went into it.
Welcome to another week! Penelope Noir gives us the lowdown on counterfeit luxury items on Fashun. Fiona McDonald and Paul Casserly from Strawpeople are in the studio to talk about their new record, Knucklebones. On Loose Reads, Suri reviews Bibliolepsy by Gina Apostol. Emily Wheatcroft-Snape is in the studio to talk about applications being open for the Record Enable Hardship Award. Whakarongo mai nei!
Coming up on the 19th of August, Te Tuhi will be opening up six new exhibitions in the gallery space in Pakuranga.
The works all deal with conversations around migration, with half of the artists being from Aotearoa and others being from various parts of Asia and reflecting on the human perception of distance.
For a quick runthrough of each of the exhibitions, Liam had a yarn with Te Tuhi’s Communications and Programme Coordinator Alena Kavka about what’s coming up.
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