Archive for the ‘Round Town’ Category
Translit - Kahu Scott - opening friday 10 sep
Monday, September 6th, 2010
CAMPBELL KNEALE Silence one 27th Aug 2010 (Painting exhibition)
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
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CAMPBELL KNEALE has become synonymous with earshattering volume and over the last 15 years
he has cultivated an extensive international following for his particular methods of systematically
reassembling the hearing range of audiences. Conversely, Campbell’s paintings are a deeply quiet act,
with corresponding silent results that function as a ‘pause’ or a ‘rest’ within a creative process that involves an intimidating amount of noise.
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‘SILENCE ONE’ represents the pinnacle of early explorations of the fullness
of emptiness, battles with noise, and discovering ‘the silent’ within a world increasingly unable to function
without electronic mediation. Drawing influence from the silent arcs of
cosmological phenomena, automatic writing, hermeticism, and second-hand Zen
books, Campbell’s intuitive processes allow the paintings to find their
own form, whilst celebrating the habitual and the repetitive. Given their
proper due, habit and repetition are transformed into meditative energies
where ideas of authorship are relaxed and the noise of their own spontaneity
is hushed into laser-guided improvisations whose hazy margins are held in
check by the restrictions and habits of the body.
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The Russian Frost Farmers Gallery
Fri 27th August
2 Eva street, Wellington
6pm
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shannon
ART MARKET # 2
Friday, July 16th, 2010
Our Bro Arlo is hosting some art markets in Wellington next Sat at MYGALAXI GALLERY.
You should go check out the space while browsing some arts. Bring your own candy floss cause you might get sucked up through a worm hole and as far as im aware there ant no food in a worm hole.
shannon.
BLACK BONED ANGEL, LIVE 26TH JUNE AT THE FARMERS
Monday, June 21st, 2010
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.
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JAMES ROBINSON INTERVIEW
Sunday, June 6th, 2010
JAMES ROBINSON, interviewed by Shannon Reed.©
James is having an exhibition at The Russian Frost Farmers Gallery In Wellington on the 26th of June, Hes Been art making his way through New Zealand since 1989, Exhibiting in every corner, he may have even exhibited in your uncles basement, who knows. He has lived all over New Zealand but has recently come to Wellington from Wanganui.
James even won something called the Wallace award for his mixed media work “Taniwha/Dragon” and was given a 6 month residency in New York.
Simply put James is an artist who literally puts everything he has into his work, while drawing through Nepal or painting in Dunedin, James will give it everything, and it shows.
Not only all this he is a super nice guy who has also agreed for an interview.
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The Morning Line:
Friday, June 4th, 2010
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.
About the compositions here.
Matthew Ritchie, Aranda\Lasch and Arup AGU
The Morning Line
Eminonu Square / May 22 - September 19, 2010
.mark.
ROHAN WEALLEANS
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
shannon
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.
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
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