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Elizabeth Thomson's Subliminal as installed at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Thomson at Two Rooms

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Elizabeth Thomson
Subliminal

 

19 August - 17 September 2016

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Image from the 100% Pure New Zealand website, used in campaign advertisements.

Against purity: or, why we need Emily Jackson

EyeContact Essay #16

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Joyce Campbell's subtilis upstairs at Two Rooms. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Campbell’s Manipulated Bacteria

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Joyce Campbell
subtilis

 

18 August - 17 September 2016


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Installation of Tjalling de Vries' no guts no glory at Antoinette Godkin.

Intestinal Art

ANTOINETTE GODKIN

Auckland

 

Tjalling de Vries
no guts no glory

 

13 August - 10 September 2016

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Lonnie Hutchinson's Light My Fire at Ramp. Photo: Geoff Ridder

Lonnie Hutchinson in Waikato

RAMP

Hamilton

 

Lonnie Hutchinson
Light My Fire

 

8 August - 31 August 2016

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Installation of Daniel Crooks' Persistence of Vision,  At Cross Purposes, In My Beginning Is My End, and for( ; ; ){} at Starkwhite. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Crooks’ Panoramic, Time-Fixated, Videos

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Daniel Crooks
Vanishing Point

 

3 August - 27 August 2016


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Jeena Shin's Motus in Jar, near the corner of New North and Western Springs Roads.

Jeena Shin in Jar

JAR

Auckland

 

Jeena Shin
Motus

 

6 August 2016 - 6 August 2017

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Cat Fooks' Pleasant St exhibition as installed at Anna Miles

Encrusted Agitation Galore

ANNA MILES GALLERY

Auckland

 

Cat Fooks
Pleasant St

 

31 July - 2 September 2016

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Estuary Art Awards 10th Anniversary, as installed in the Malcolm Smith Gallery. In the centre (on the floor) is the winning video work by Emily Parr, Te Wai Mokoia. Photo: Courtesy of Malcolm Smith Gallery.

Saving the Tamaki Estuary

MALCOLM SMITH GALLERY

Howick

 

Selected group exhibition
Estuary Art Awards 2016 - Tenth Anniversary



29 July - 27 August 2016


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Britten V1000 installed in GREAT BRITTEN! A Work by Billy Apple at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, July 2016. F002–92 collection of Kevin Grant. Photo: John Collie

Apple’s Britten Tribute

CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY TE PUNA O WAIWHETU

Christchurch

 

Billy Apple
Great Britten!

 

16 July - 9 November 2016

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Nikau Hindin's wananga aute at work. Still from Maori Television.

The First Bite for Five Hundred Years

NATHAN HOMESTEAD GALLERY

Manurewa

 

Nikau Hindin
Te Kiri o Tane: Maori Tapa

 

2 July - 7 August, 2016

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James Cousins' Resident, as installed at Gow Langsford.

Image Fragmentation & Torture

GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

James Cousins
Resident

 

3 August - 27 August 2016


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John Akomfrah, Vertigo Sea, 2015, as installed at Centre of Contemporary Art Toi Moroki

John Akomfrah’s Dizzying Disgust

CENTRE OF CONTEMPORARY ART TOI MOROKI

Christchurch

 

John Akomfrah
Vertigo Sea

 

21 May - 7 August 2016

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Joyce Campbell, Flightdream II, 2016, (installation view), Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2016

More Is Less: The Walters Prize 2016

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Joyce Campbell, Nathan Pohio, Lisa Reihana, Shannon Te Ao
The Walters Prize 2016

 

16 July - 30 October 2016

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Billy Apple's Bruce and Denny Show as installed at Two Rooms, April 2008. Photo: Sam hartnett

Fuck Art; Let’s Race

EyeContact Essay #15

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Sabelo Mlangeni's Heartbreaker exhibition of hand-printed gelatin prints, as installed at Artspace. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Mlangeni in Auckland

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Sabelo Mlangeni
Heartbreaker

 

1 July - 27 August 2016

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Mikala Dwyer, In the Head of Humans, as installed at Hopkinson Mossman

Mikala Dwyer in Auckland

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Mikala Dwyer
In the Head of Humans

 

29 July - 27 August 2016

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Chen Chieh-jen, Realm of Reverberations (2014) 104 mins Taiwanese, Chinese with English subtitles. Single channel video with sound. Courtesy of the artist and Artspace. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Chen Chieh-jen Presentation

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Chen Chieh-jen
Realm of Reverberations

 

1 July - 27 August 2016


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Generational

PARLOUR PROJECTS

Hastings

 

Meg Porteous
Apparatus

 

15 July - 20 August 2016

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Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph installation view (Credit: Bryan James)

Primordial Representation

LEN LYE CENTRE / GOVETT-BREWSTER ART GALLERY

New Plymouth

 

Group show
Emanations: the art of the cameraless photograph


29 April - 14 August 2016.

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On the wall, Abigail Jensen's Big Black Painting.

Black

SKINROOM

Hamilton

 

Abigail Jensen and Eliza Webster
Creep

 

8 July 8 - 23 July 2016.