Opening of Hito Steyerl video exhibition at Adam Art Gallery

Please join Christina Barton, Sophie Jerram and me at 5.30pm on Friday 4 July at the Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi for a special screening and discussion to launch the second in the RELOAD │Kirk Gallery Series 2014:

Hito Steyerl
Is a Museum a Battlefield?
4 July – 10 August

Refreshments will be served.

For full details of the public programme associated with the RELOAD series and Kim Pieters’ exhibition, what is a life? visit www.adamartgallery.org.nz

My review of Cinema and Painting in this week's NZ Listener

My (mixed) review of the Adam Art Gallery's current exhibition Cinema and Painting appears in this week's NZ Listener. 

Cinema and Painting Screening Tonight at NZ Film Archive

Screening: Turbulence: The Ocean as Cinematic Space
Curated with Philippe-Alain Michaud, Curator of Film, Georges Pompidou Centre, France

Nathaniel Dorsky, Alaya, 1976-87, 16mm, b/w, silent, 28 mins

Heinrich Hauser, WINDJAMMER UND JANMAATEN. DIE LETZTE SEGELSCHIFFE (Windjammer and Sailors: The Last Sailboats), 1930, 35mm, b/w, silent, 48 mins
Live music accompaniment by Jonathan Berkahn on piano accordion

Two film poems explore the atmospheric drama of an interaction of sea, sky, and sand in this special “live” cinema event. Generously supported by the Embassy of France.

The river is within us, the sea is all about us. – T.S. Eliot

Saturday 22 February, 6pm
New Zealand Film Archive Wellington
$10/$8 entry

We Will Work With You: Wellington Media Collective

My book review of the catalogue on the Wellington Media Collective published last year by Victoria University Press, subsequent to a major exhibition at the Adam Art Gallery has just been posted on EyeContact. As I stated in my introductory paragraph:

"While reading the richly detailed and illustrated retrospective compilation of the Wellington Media Collective‘s activist graphics, mainly consisting of screen-printed posters, handbills, and flyers, I recalled George Orwell’s statement that “all art is propaganda” along with the aphorism of Marshall McLuhan that “art is anything you can get away with.” Both of these came to mind as for two decades it seems that the Collective embodied the lively and irreverent spirit of both these rather tendentious but rousing claims...."