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Installation of Joyce Campbell's Flightdream (2015) at Two Rooms. FD video with audio. Sound by Peter Kolovos. Duration 25 minutes looped

Joyce Campbell’s Evocative Film

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Joyce Campbell
Flightdream

 

24 September - 24 October 2015

JesH
Installation at City Gallery of Shannon Te Ao's two shoots that stretch far out, 2013-14, HD video, cinematography by Iain Frengley.

Searching for a Nonverbal Connection

CITY GALLERY WELLINGTON TE WHARE TOI

Wellington

 

Shannon Te Ao, Susan Te Kahurangi King
From the one I call my own

 

27 June - 8 November 2015

JH
Mickey Smith, installation of South, HD video, at Te Tuhi. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Carnegie’s New Zealand Public Libraries

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Pakuranga

 

Mickey Smith
Cultivate it as you will…

 

1 August - 25 October 2015


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Mark Curtis, The Jackson Experiment as installed at the Wallace Gallery, Morrinsville. Courtesy of the Wallace Trust

Curtis Does Jackson

WALLACE GALLERY

Morrinsville

 

Mark Curtis
The Jackson Experiment

 

24 September - 4 October 2015

JH
Ronnie van Hout, No Exit II, 2003, mixed media, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.

Bringing The Outside In

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Newby, Denny, Buchanan, van Hout, Connor
Inside Outside Upside Down



18 July - 1 November 2015

JH
Shannon Novak, Deep Concinnity, as installed at Te Tuhi. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Novak Wall Drawings

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Shannon Novak
Deep Concinnity

 

1 August 2015 - 21 February 2016


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Brown Council, This is Barbara Cleveland, 2013, single channel HD video, sound (16:42). Photo: Daegan Wells

Performance and Documentation

THE PHYSICS ROOM

Christchurch

 

Brown Council, Emma Fitts, Alex Martinis Roe, and Newspaper Reading Club
Embodying the Archive

5 September - 10 October 2015

SVG
Martin Thompson, Untitled, felt-tip on graph paper

Mathematical Wizardry

DUNEDIN PUBLIC ART GALLERY

Dunedin


Martin Thompson
Sublime Worlds

 

12 September- 29 November, 2015.

 

SVK
Dvd cover: “Alexis Hunter: Approach to Fear,” 2014, 12 min film directed by Lindsey Dryden

Alexis Hunter: The Feminist is in the Room

EyeContact Essay #11

KL
Ella Sutherland's Boring month start to finish, the whole month, at North Projects.  Photo: Daegen Wells

Pondering the Puzzles Page

NORTH PROJECTS

Christchurch

 

Ella Sutherland
Boring month start to finish, the whole month

 

12 September - 17 October 2015

JH
Jenny Gillam & Eugene Hansen with Adrian McCleland, At a Distance of forty-two days, as installed at Te Tuhi. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Art and Entomology

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Jenny Gillam & Eugene Hansen with Adrian McCleland
At a Distance of Forty-Two Days

 

1 August - 25 October 2015

JH
Phil Dadson, Anatomia Sonora da Camera, 2015, single channel video/audio, 18 minutes - as installed at Trish Clark Gallery.

Dadson Drawings and Videos

TRISH CLARK GALLERY

Auckland

 

Phil Dadson
Sound Anatomy

 

16 August - 2 October 2015


SH
The 'Black Passageway' from Vataulua, outside On the Spot ArtSpace. Photograph by Adam Douglass.

Nuku’alofa’s Liberated Zone

ON THE SPOT ARTSPACE

Nuku’alofa

 

On the Spot Arts Initiative
Vataulua

 

5 August - 1 September, 2015

APW

Tom Kreisler Film

Point of View Productions

Shirley Horrocks

Tom Who? The Enigma of Tom Kreisler

73 mins

Producer: Shirley Horrocks, Tony Green

Photography: Adrian Greshoff, Leon Narby, Ron Egozi

JH
Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys, Der Schlamm von Branst, 2008, HD video, 20 min

Lugubrious’ Belgians and others

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

International group exhibition
i) Duplex Cling Mob

26 August - 26 September 2015


LM
Alexander Laurie and Biljana Popovic, Moonlight Garden, 2015, mixed media, courtesy of the artists. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Feels So Real

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

International group exhibition
The Shadow of the Dome of Pleasure


4 September - 10 October 2015

BJP
Zina Swanson, Waterfall, 2015, brass taps, handblown glass rods

Ritual Ecologies

STATE OF PRINCES

Dunedin

 

Zina Swanson
Concrete Dirt Parfait

 

2 September - 19 September 2015

JH
Installation of Campbell Patterson's  new normal music at Michael Lett

Masochism and Play as Art

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Campbell Patterson
new normal music

 

26 August - 26 September 2015


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Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Pioneer City Flag, Winner 2015 National Contemporary Art Award

2015 National Contemporary Art Award

WAIKATO MUSEUM TE WHARE TAONGA O WAIKATO

Hamilton

 

Group exhibition
National Contemporary Art Award


18 July - 1 November 20015

JH
Installation of Bianca Hester's movements materialising momentarily at St Paul St Gallery. Photo: Sam Hartnett.

Bianca Hester in Auckland

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY TWO

Auckland

 

Bianca Hester
movements materialising momentary

 

31 July - 11 September 2015

MA
Andrew Beck, Shadow Strips Cascades, 2015, 29 silver gelatin prints, 210 x 530mm each, 5.5 x 4.0m overall. Courtesy of the artist and Hamish McKay Gallery. Photo: Shaun Waugh

Scrutinising the Present Tense

ADAM ART GALLERY TE PATAKA TOI

Wellington

 

Andrew Beck, Colin McCahon, Keith Tyson, David Claerbout
The Specious Present


11 July - 20 September 2015