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a mixtape for maladies w/ Ahi Karunaharan: 21st February, 2025

a mixtape for maladies w/ Ahi Karunaharan: 21st February, 2025 a mixtape for maladies w/ Ahi Karunaharan: 21st February, 2025, 17.57 MB
Fri 21 Feb 2025

Ahi Karunaharan joined Beth and Sofia in the studio to talk about a mixtape for maladies, the final chapter of Karunaharan's trilogy. The play tells the story of 17 nostalgic pop tracks which chart the deeply moving journey of Sangeetha and her family in 1950s Sri Lanka. a mixtape for maladies is on at ASB Waterfront Theatre from the 4th March. You can get your tickets here.

Soft Spot w/ Assistant Curator at Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery, Hester Rowan: 21st February, 2025

Soft Spot w/ Assistant Curator at Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery, Hester Rowan: 21st February, 2025 Soft Spot w/ Assistant Curator at Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery, Hester Rowan: 21st February, 2025, 13.78 MB
Fri 21 Feb 2025

Soft Spot is a new group exhibition showing Claudia Kogachi, Erica Van Zon, and Ming Ranginui at Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery. 

Through their respective practices, Kogachi, Van Zon, and Ranginui engage with the home conceptually and formally, depicting household items and activities while working with craft modes often associated with domestic furnishings such as rug making, carpentry, and needlework.

Sofia spoke with curator of Soft Spot, Hester Rowan, about the exhibition, her curation process, and the themes of Soft Spot.

Chicken Poems w/ Oscar and Sophie Bannan: 21st February, 2025

Chicken Poems w/ Oscar and Sophie Bannan: 21st February, 2025 Chicken Poems w/ Oscar and Sophie Bannan: 21st February, 2025, 15.27 MB
Fri 21 Feb 2025

Chicken Poems is a a new body of collaborative and parallel work by artists and siblings Oscar and Sophie Bannan. The exhibition includes collage, photography, video and sculpture.

Artnow writes that ‘each work is conceived as a visual poem that explores radical intimacies with time, and the creation of meaning through image/object relationships. Thematically, their work explores rhythms of living such as cooking and food, domestic chores, personal ritual, familial and romantic relationships’.

For the exhibition, Sophie and Oscar have made a moving image work using existing dance films made of and by the siblings over the past thirty years.

Beth had a kōrero with Oscar and Sophie about Chicken Poems, which is showing at the Gus Fisher Gallery until the 10th of May.

Swan Crash w/ artist Tony Guo: 14th February, 2025

Swan Crash w/ artist Tony Guo: 14th February, 2025 Swan Crash w/ artist Tony Guo: 14th February, 2025, 17.26 MB
Fri 14 Feb 2025

Swan Crash is an new exhibition by artist Tony Guo at Season Gallery Aotearoa. 

Guo is a painter born in Aotearoa New Zealand who grew up in Northeast China and moved to Tāmaki Makaurau in 2012. 

Although informed by particular experiences and histories connecting back to his parents’ and grandparents’ experiences in northeastern China in the 20th century and his queerness, Guo’s works invite shifting and multiple interpretations. 

Sofia spoke to Guo about his artistic practice, the ideas within his works, and his process.

Various Artists w/ Beth and Sofia: 14th February, 2025

Various Artists w/ Beth and Sofia: 14th February, 2025 Various Artists w/ Beth and Sofia: 14th February, 2025, 115.01 MB
Fri 14 Feb 2025

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Sofia spoke with artist Tony Guo about his current exhibition at Season Aotearoa, Swan Crash

Beth spoke with board members of LGBTQ+ writers festival Samesame but different, Pip Adam and Nathan Joe, about the programme this year. 

And for Stage Direction this week, Alice Canton spoke with artistic director of Auckland Arts Festival, Bernie Haldane. 

Auckland Arts Festival 2025 programme w/ artistic director, Bernie Haldane: 14th February, 2025

Auckland Arts Festival 2025 programme w/ artistic director, Bernie Haldane: 14th February, 2025 Auckland Arts Festival 2025 programme w/ artistic director, Bernie Haldane: 14th February, 2025, 21.82 MB
Fri 14 Feb 2025

Alice Canton spoke to artistic director of Auckland Arts Festival, Bernie Haldane, about the programme this year. The festival is running from 6-23 March. More info here!

Samesame but different Festival w/ Pip Adam & Nathan Joe: 14th February, 2025

Samesame but different Festival w/ Pip Adam & Nathan Joe: 14th February, 2025 Samesame but different Festival w/ Pip Adam & Nathan Joe: 14th February, 2025, 21.31 MB
Fri 14 Feb 2025

Samesame but different is Tāmaki Makaurau’s annual LGBTQ+ writers festival.

Launched in 2016 by writer Peter Wells, the goal for the festival is to be ‘an exciting event that makes people think about sexuality, difference and community, stretches their understanding, gives them a few laughs and creates a slightly magic space for two days in February’.

Pip Adam, author of Ockham-nominated novel Audition (2023), and Nathan Joe,  award-winning theatre-maker and performance poet, are both board members of Samesame but different.

Beth caught up with Pip and Nathan about the festival this year

Saudade w/ Loren Marks: February 7th, 2025

Saudade w/ Loren Marks: February 7th, 2025 Saudade w/ Loren Marks: February 7th, 2025, 6.75 MB
Fri 7 Feb 2025

Saudade is a solo exhibition showing Naarm/Tāmaki Makaurau based artist, Loren Marks, at Sanderson Gallery.

Sanderson writes that [Loren’s] ‘artworks present ethereal and dreamlike scenes whereby figures emerge from the alchemic realms of paint’.

The works in this exhibition experiment with Helen Frankenthaler’s ‘soak-stain’ technique. Often abstracted, each absorbs the viewer into its individual world of vivid imagery and colour.

Beth had a kōrero with Loren about Saudade and her creative process

Arena w/ Anto Yeldezian: February 7th, 2025

Arena w/ Anto Yeldezian: February 7th, 2025 Arena w/ Anto Yeldezian: February 7th, 2025, 11.36 MB
Fri 7 Feb 2025

Anto Yeldezian is a Tāmaki Makaurau based artist of Armenian heritage. His latest exhibition, Arena, is currently showing at Coastal Signs Gallery.

The works in Arena often play with bright and bold colours - often being mixed medium, with images, sketches and painting superimposed onto one another. Coastal Signs writes that in Anto’s paintings, ‘[. . . ] images from a myriad of sources are layered on top of one another and synthesized, very adeptly, into painterly tableau. 'The works in Arena are, as the title suggests, often organised around game boards – such as Snakes & Ladders and Noughts & Crosses – and representations of contested territories, both fictional and otherwise’.

Beth had a kōrero with Anto about Arena and his artistic process

Prompts: Lubaina Himid and Michael Parekōwhai w/ Artspace Aotearoa Kaitohu Director, Ruth Buchanan: 7th February, 2025

Prompts: Lubaina Himid and Michael Parekōwhai w/ Artspace Aotearoa Kaitohu Director, Ruth Buchanan: 7th February, 2025 Prompts: Lubaina Himid and Michael Parekōwhai w/ Artspace Aotearoa Kaitohu Director, Ruth Buchanan: 7th February, 2025, 13.3 MB
Fri 7 Feb 2025

Prompts is Artspace Aotearoa’s latest exhibition, showing the early work of leading Aotearoa practitioner Michael Parekōwhai and Turner Prize-winning UK artist Lubaina Himid.

Presenting a large body of work on paper from Himid alongside the early and significant sculptural work, The Indefinite Article, by Parekōwhai, Prompts is Artspace Aotearoa’s first exhibition of 2025, which seeks to explore the gallery’s question this year: Is language large enough? 

Sofia had a kōrero with Kaitohu Director of Artspace Aotearoa, Ruth Buchanan, about the show.