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We are not Prepared
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Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū
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A time-stretching mini-festival of night art performance events: long-duration sound performance, artists' talks, performance art, and actual film.
The evening stars Michael Morley’s drone installation-performance, fresh from touring in the US and Europe. Music for The Never Quartet features acoustic guitars mic’d up on wooden tables for mutual blissful, layered resonance. Morley is an Aotearoa sound luminary (if that is not crossing sense descriptions there) known and loved for his work in the Dead C (with Robbie Yeats and Bruce Russell) and his solo act Gate.
We will project Nova Paul’s 16mm film, This is Not Dying – a work based on filmed studies of daily life around Paul’s Ngāpuhi marae. By using three-colour separation in the printing of the film, she produces prismatic, multi-layered images where perceived reality takes a strange shift into a more unfamiliar realm.
Performance artist Audrey Baldwin will don the mantle of therapist, mystic, and well-intentioned bureaucrat in Gallery Guide. Gallery-goers are invited to step into her salon for a one-on-one performance. Drawing on psychic tropes and the idea of the artist as translator for the subconscious, this playful yet earnest performance promises to change the way you look at art in the gallery’s collection.
Join artists Séraphine Pick and Marie Shannon in conversation about their painting, video and installation work in Now, Then, Next, an exhibition exploring art and temporality in recent Gallery acquisitions.
Includes Richard Till-produced soup kitchen! Free kai for all made with love by this amazing cook.
Mess with clock-time and make friends with something else. Bring your people and take over the gallery. Bar, food and altered states supplied. (GA)
In case you are wondering why this night is called ‘We are not prepared’ it refers to the improvisation of filmmaker Nicolas Roeg who used to say this phrase over and over to his cast and crew as they made films (like Don't Look Back), encouraging them to pay attention to the script, but also to wing it. The artists involved in this programme all have practices that can be seen to be emergent - the work forming out of the process of making and doing, unfolding over time.
Related reading: Free event, Gigs at the Gallery
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Public programmes take centre stage at the Gallery this spring
Visitors to the Gallery will be spoilt for choice this month, with some of the best art in New Zealand on display alongside a rich calendar of public programmes.
In addition to amazing art and exhibitions, our impressive spring events calendar brings together a range of artist talks, films and activities, so there’s bound to be something for everyone to enjoy.
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Remix Committee: We Need You!
We are looking for a small group of passionate taste-makers to join our ReMix Committee. Come and ensure YOUR voice is represented at Christchurch Art Gallery by working with our team to plan an event (and other activities) that is all about, and for, young people. We don’t want to tell you what you might like, we want you to tell us! You pick the theme, you pick the bands, you pick the performers, you pick the film, you pick the speakers.
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Countdown to Fifteen
Fifteen is our birthday party (guess how old we are…) and it’s less than two weeks away! It’s also the opening event for Tony de Lautour’s US V THEM, which is our big winter exhibition. We asked curator Peter Vangioni and visitor programmes coordinator Amy Marr what they’re most excited about in the incredible line-up for this grand birthday bash.
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Been to some lame ‘youth’ events lately?
Now’s your chance to help create a cool event for you and your friends!
The Mix is Christchurch’s Art Gallery bi-monthly late-night event – an interactive mix of art, music, film and good people. We want to run a Mix designed, curated and for under 18s – ReMix.
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Gallery Happenings: Grayson Gilmour
In early March we were lucky enough to have the incredibly talented Grayson Gilmour performing at the Gallery, supported by the equally talented Purple Pilgrims and New Dawn. I love these gigs, but there is a lot of work to be done behind the scenes to make sure that, by the time the public walk in the door, the foyer is gig ready. The process normally feels like a long, slow marathon with a sprint at the final corner. So here’s a guide to how you too can get the NZI Foyer gig-ready in five (or six) easy steps.
