Archive for the ‘Performance’ Category

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

Firestarters

Friday, July 2nd, 2010



A few piks from the recent opening of James Robinson - Palimpsest with Black Boned Angel.


Gallery NOW open - Wednesday to Saturday 11am - 4pm


palimsest candles (more…)

REFAIT

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

Refait from Pied La Biche on Vimeo.

There is nothing you could say to describe the share awesomeness of this video, Im sure its pretty viral but if you have not seen this then you wont be able to contribute to the water cooler conversation on Mon which might start off something like.

You : Well Brian, the conceptual totality of juxtaposing a bannana with the year 1984 speaks of Dadas absurdness in the collective psyche of post post VHS inspired modernisim, which lends to itself, through repeatitive vibrations that tap into the pointlessness of the human condition.

BRIAN : There is something wrong with your personal understanding of post post VHS inspired modernism, its more to do with the glitch of capitalist values which have dropped in the marketplace which has inspired the new DIY generation breaking down nostalgic dreams into geometric patterns. So yeah, you need to check your instinctual mind map and get the hell away from my water. Bitch!

Shannon

BLACK BONED ANGEL, LIVE 26TH JUNE AT THE FARMERS

Monday, June 21st, 2010

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BLACK BONED ANGEL is CAMPBELL KNEALE and JAMES KIRK

They produce a kind of transcendence as if time stopped and all the pylons in outer suburbia gathered together all the heaviest metal band albums from under every Iron Maiden t shirt wearing long hairs nose, flew them to Scandinavia and feed them to Agorogoths brain while he was in a mental hospital that he came out shitting his pants to thought of having to milk one of his own goats again.

What Im trying to say is that im not as bad ass as I guy called Agorogoth from some mountainous Scando village but i reckon he would be impressed with this amount of  impending Doom.

I have seen these guys live a couple of times and i always feel like im a leaf, being blown across an ocean, not sure were im gonna land or if ill ever even find land again.

If you have the stamina and like the word experience, you my friend are in for a treat because

BLACK BONED ANGEL are playing on the 26th June at THE RUSSIAN FROST FARMERS #2 Eva St, Wellington, 6pm, as part of PALIMPSEST a JAMES ROBINSON EXHIBITION.

shannon

The Morning Line:

Friday, June 4th, 2010

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ISTANBUL, TURKEY - Public Sculpture touches down in Istanbul taking the form of geometric-crystaline structure. The Morning Line: is a world traveling temporary sonic pavilion cum platform for experimental sound composition. Revolving curation sees the  audio works change from venue to venue.

Listen to links below for the Russell Haswell curated sound program for Istanbul.

Chris Watson - snaesfellsnes

Florian Hecker - Rotating

Lee Ranaldo - Maelstrom

About the compositions here.


Matthew Ritchie, Aranda\Lasch and Arup AGU
The Morning Line

Eminonu Square / May 22 - September 19, 2010


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AIDS - 3D

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Network Of Love from Aids-3D on Vimeo.

Best shit we’ve seen in ages…

SPEND A FEW HOURS OVER THE WEBSITE PLEASE
AIDS-3D
ART (belief systems, technology, activism)

2010 ARTICLE

2009 INTERVIEW

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Need i say more… ‘A Club for Computers’

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

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http://www.computersclub.org/

‘Each week or so, Computers Club introduce a new work by an artist. Many of the Computer Clubbers have helped to define the current crop of internet-based art influenced by Larry Cuba and Tron-style computer graphics, such as Laura Brothers, Nicholas Sassoon, and Elna Frederic’
- Ceci Moss, rhizome.org

ILL BE WEARING A MOUSTACHE AND A BLUE BEANIE

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

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On the agenda this week…..



SUNDAY 23rd May, 7:30pm     $5

FRED’s EXPERIMENTAL VARIETY SHOW!!

James Robinson (live drawing/painting) / Kieran Monaghan (percussion) / Jeff Henderson (misc) / Daniel Beban (electronics)

In recent years, artist James Robinson has had a string of residencies in New York and NZ and worked in an old grain store in Whanganui.
His paintings have been called “jarring, antagonistic, like overgrown cultures on a sterile laboratory bench. Torn and scorched, their massive canvases are stuck with thick worms of white paint, deflated sacs of resin, coarse sutures of woollen yarn, and mandalas of nails.”

James will be making a live drawing/painting to the sounds of the wonderful Kieran Monaghan (Mr. Sterile Assembly) along with Jeff Henderson and Daniel Beban.

www.jamesrobinson.co.nz/
Mr Sterile - www.skirted.net

Warwick Donald (piano mate) and Nell Thomas (theremin)

This is not something you’d want to miss out on. Warwick has just bought this really crazy old contraption call the Piano Mate that turns an ordinary upright piano into a a beautiful bleeping, glitching, squealing wall of electronic sound! You have to witness it to believe it! It’s like Derek Bailey playing piano. Rising theremin star Nell Thomas will take this cathedral of noise to another dimension!

Hermione Johnson (prepared piano) / Isaac Smith (double bass) / Gerard Crewdson (trombone)

The brilliant improvising pianist Hermione Johnson in a trio with the two of the greats!!

plus a film!!
Xogenesis James Robinson, Rowan Wernham and others with original sound and music by Chris Knox!



MONDAY 24th May, 7pm,    $gold coin

Violist extraordinaire Chris Prosser hosts a listening session
exploring the work of 3 contemporary improvising solo violinists: Mark Feldman, Iva Bittova and Leroy Jenkins.


OTHER EVENTS AROUND WELLINGTON THIS WEEK:

Orchestra of Spheres - live to air on Radio Active, Wednesday 19th, 6pm - tune in and bliss out!

Bill Orcutt - Happy, Thursday 20th, 9pm $10. with THE STUMPS + SETH FRIGHTENING/GEORGE D ANGUS

Bill Orcutt emerged as one of the most influential guitar players of the 1990s, alongside drummer Adris Hoyos in the seminal Miami-based free rock band, Harry Pussy.

Orcutt’s plucked lacerations, spooky boogie, and ballistic extraterrestrial blues, bordered by the severe candour of his own ulterior, vocal utterances makes for an unsettling but downright melodious sound invoking the spirits of the late Derek Bailey and John Fahey, Fred McDowell and Joseph Spence.


FREDERICK STREET SOUND AND LIGHT EXPLORATION SOCIETY
46 FREDERICK STREET, WELLINGTON
www.soundexplorers.co.nz
shannon