If the ADA symposium is anything like the (loosely afiliated) Enjoy opening tonight, it's gonna rock!
Friday, June 26, 2009
Friday, June 19, 2009
speak geek
A recent 'speak geek to me' lecture highlighted the ways that cultural organisations are using social and other virtual media to reach and communicate with audiences (they're all doing it apparently people, from the Met to Te Papa). I was introduced to such concepts as webiquette and it all just seemed a bit much.The charasmatic Tee Morris let me in on the idea that social media are not and should not be a substitute for face-to-face contact, but rather a way of facilitating or enhancing it.
I walked out thinking that Facebook and Twitter are perhaps not the all-consuming evil behemoths that I had previously thought...or rather, that they are but have their upsides too. Stay tuned for it, yes, an Enjoy FBook page to be launched soon as.
image: would you trust this man's CMS? lifted from myfitgeek.com (cheers!)
image: would you trust this man's CMS? lifted from myfitgeek.com (cheers!)Monday, June 15, 2009
TRUSTEE OPEN CALL
Enjoy Trust seeks a new trustee to join its small, dynamic and committed team. The Trust is currently looking for a new trustee with experience securing funding and or sponsorship .
Trust members work as a team and consult closely with staff to ensure that the Enjoy Public Art Gallery vision is executed, communicated and achieved effectively and offer strategic support within the organization to ensure its mission is upheld.
A trustee will need to be committed to their position, working within the team to promote and facilitate the Trust's advisory and strategic role. This is a voluntary position and trustees are expected to offer several hours a week to Trust matters as required: including being available to attend and participate in the monthly Trust meetings.
The Trust are currently looking for those with funding/sponsorship skills, however we also seek trustees with a passion for being part of Enjoy's development and the desire to contribute to the integrity, innovation and quality of the Enjoy vision and the gallery's growing community. As Enjoy is an artist run initiative, applicants who are also practicing artists will have an advantage.
Enjoy generates and facilitates contemporary art projects to promote the discourse of contemporary art practice in all its forms. Enjoy is unique in that it is liberated from commercial constraints in order to provide both emerging and established practitioners with opportunities to develop innovative work.
If you think you're the right person to join our team please email an introductory letter and your CV to trust@enjoy.org.nz
Any questions can also be directed to the above email address.
The deadline for applications is 5pm, Friday 3 July 2009.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
in dialogue
Darryl Walker's off-site project in dialogue at Karori Sanctuary went off with a bang last Saturday, among tranquil surroundings. Here are a few images I shot before I squeezed in some bird watching...the resulting sound-sculpture will be installed in Enjoy's stairwell from Wednesday June 10.
Also a date correction: Walker's artist talk will be happening at Enjoy this Saturday, June 13 at 2pm, hope to see you there.
images by Jeremy Booth
Monday, June 8, 2009
Juan Angel Chavez_artist talk
Juan Angel Chavez
Artist Talk
Friday 12th June 6pm
Enjoy Public Art Gallery
Enjoy is pleased to announce that Chicago-based Mexican artist Juan Angel Chavez will be giving an artist talk about his practice and current research in New Zealand this Friday. Chavez started his career doing non-permissioned sculptural interventions in the urban environment. His recent work includes large sculptural installations in the gallery context made of found materials scavenged from the industrial wastelands of Chicago. His work also often involves light, sound, performance and visitor interaction.
Chavez has shown extensively in Chicago including recent exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The National Museum of Mexican Art and the Hyde Park Art Center. Chavez has also exhibited throughout the U.S and internationally including Los Angeles, Boston, Vermont, Ohio and Copenhagen. He has also recently been awarded with the prestigious Richard H. Driehaus Individual Artist Award and the Louis Comfort Tiffany award in New York City. For more information please visit: www.juanangelchavez.com
Chavez is in New Zealand on a research visit in conjunction with the Close Encounters project initiated by the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago. Close Encounters is an evolving project that will result in a series of artists projects in 2010 involving nine artists from New Zealand and across the United States including: Daniel du Bern (NZ), Tania Bruguera (Cuba /U.S.), Juan Angel Chávez (Mexico /U.S.), Walter Hood (U.S.), Truman Lowe (Ho Chunk/U.S.), Maddie Leach (NZ), Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle (U.S.), Lisa Reihana (NZ), Wayne Youle (NZ). Close Encounters is co-curated by Chuck Thurow (Executive Director of the Hyde Park Art Center) and Bruce E. Phillips (independent curator from New Zealand) and is supported by Creative New Zealand, Illinois Arts Council and the Boeing Charitable Trust.
For more information please visit: http://www.hydeparkart.org/
Saturday, June 6, 2009
this is experimental: Australian film art
Some sweet things happening at the Film Archive in Wellington this coming week! A three day festival featuring some of the leading lights of Australian experimental film; including Sally Golding, Joel Stern, and Dirk de Bruyn.
Kicking off on Thursday with an historical exploration of Australian experimental film 'produced largely in isolation' from similar movements in Europe and the U.S., and ending on Saturday with one of Abject Leader's performances of 'expanded cinema', this will be a treat, for sure.
For more details check out the Film Archive's website. Made possible with support from the Australian High Commission.
Thursday 11 June, 7.00pm
Isolationist Eye Openers: Historic Australian Film Art 1962-1998
(AU, 1962-1998, 70 mins, Exempt)
Friday 12 June, 7.00pm
Retinex Reflux - a performance by Dirk de Bruyn
(AU, 60 mins, Exempt)
Saturday 13 June, 7.00pm
Light Piercing the Nerve – a performance by Abject Leader
(AU, 60 minutes, Exempt)
image: Light Piercing the nerve: a performance by Abject Leader. Image courtesy of The Film Archive
Elam information evening
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Thursday, June 4, 2009
kiwis in Venice
Venice seems a lot closer - geographically, and in terms of interest value - if you follow these colourful bloggings on CNZ's website
in (bird) dialogue
As you may have noticed a symphony of native bird song has returned to Te Aro in force, via the work of Wellington artist Darryl Walker, and her show in dialogue at Enjoy. There is an opportunity to become a collaborator in the exhibition this weekend at Karori Sanctuary, Wellington...should be a lot of fun too!
"In conjunction with World Environment Day, Darryl Walker is working with audiences off-site at Karori Sanctuary on 6th June (10.30 – 12.30 & 1.30 – 3.30 pm).
Participants will be given the opportunity to learn the songs of indigenous birds from the Wellington region. Each person’s final rendition will be recorded, forming a sound sculpture to be installed in the historic stairwell leading to Enjoy, as part of Walker's exhibition."
Check out the Sactuary's website for more details
Image: Tui illustration by Artsha, retrieved from http://glenview9.wordpress.com/page/2/ (cheers)
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