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Left to right. Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Mangere Mall, 2011, single channel digital video; Louise Afoa, Reload, 2011, single channel video; Mark Adams, Hinemihi, Clandon Park, Surrey..., 2000, C types, and Hinemihi, Te Wairoa..; Ans Westra, Washday at the Pa.

What is Documentation?

TE WAI NGUTU KĀKĀ GALLERY TWO

Auckland

 

International group show
In Spite of Ourselves: Approaching Documentary

 

25 May - 29 June 2012

JH
Derrick Cherrie: Constituent Parts #4 (Orange Runner) on the left. Constituent Parts #1 (untitled) on the right.

Cherrie at Te Tuhi

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Derrick Cherrie
Constituent Parts: Objects and Their Discontents

 

26 May - 29 July 2012

JH
Richard Serra, Te Tuhirangi Contour, 1999-2001, corten steel, 252 m x 6 m x 50 mm. Photo Marian Kerr.

Visiting the Gibbs Farm

GIBBS FARM

Kaipara

 

International group show
Works commissioned by Alan Gibbs

 

Visit by appointment

 


JH
John B. Turner's Postcards from China at projectspaceB431

Images from Beijing

PROJECTSPACE B431

Auckland

 

John B. Turner
Postcards from China

 

6 June - 23 June 2012

MD
Ben Buchanan's Forever at The Dowse. Photo by Mark Tantrum.

Groove Is In The Art

THE DOWSE ART MUSEUM

Lower Hutt

 

Ben Buchanan
Forever
(Part of Solo)

 

12 May - 19 August 2012

JH
Layla Rudneva-Mackay's Pointing at Trees, installed at Starkwhite. Photo by Sam Hartnett.

Beautiful but Backward

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Layla Rudneva-Mackay
Pointing at Trees

 

31 May - 30 June 2012


AH
Mitch Cairns, Smokey Sad Square 2012, oil on linen, 69 x 69 cm. Photo by Jamie North.

Discussing Painting Without Irony

BREENSPACE

Sydney

 

Mitch Cairns
Bass Principles

 

10 May - 2 June 2012

JH
Alex Monteith, 2.5 Kilometre Mono Action for a Mitage, 2011, super 16 mm/35 mm/digital video, colour, sound, 4.30 mm, detail

Website for NZ Film and Video Artists

CIRCUIT website

 

Curated by Mark Williams

 

Online

APW
Hannah & Aaron Beehre, Waters Above Waters Below (detail) 2012. Installation. Reproduced courtesy of the artists.

Christchurch through a Spectacular Camera Obscura

CHRISTCHURCH ART GALLERY TE PUNA O WAIWHETU

Christchurch

 

Hannah and Aaron Beehre
Waters Above Waters Below

 

26 May - 17 June 2012


AH
Gregory & Watts, Manhattan Sydney, 2011,Digital video. 6:45 Edition of 5

Imbibing Rituals Saluting Place

CHALK HORSE

Sydney

 

Gregory & Watts
Cocktail Hour

 

22 March - 21 April 2012

JH
Sean Snyder's video Alalepsis, 2004, on the wall. Video without sound. On the three plinths, photographs from 2009, Untitled (ideological material, printed materials, celluloid); Untitled (digital image sensing devices, LCD screens). Photo Sam Hartnett

Digital dominance, proliferation and mutability

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Fuyama, Laric, Nerney, Riebeek and Snyder
alienate/demonstrate/edit
Curated by Arron Santry

 

25 May - 30 June 2012

JH

Patterned Paintings From Textile Offcuts

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Zac Langdon-Pole
Nothing by itself

 

18 May - 23 June 2012


CA
Louise Bennett at David Pestorius Projects, Brisbane

Cyberspace as Medium

DAVID PESTORIUS PROJECTS

Brisbane

 

Solo Show
Louise Bennett

 

9 March - 7 April 2012

MA
Murray Hewitt, Recessional, 2010, courtesy of the artist. Marsland Hill Memorial, New Plymouth

Moving Image From a Fixed Position

NEW ZEALAND FILM ARCHIVE

Wellington

 

Group Exhibition
Still

 


10 May - 22 June 2012

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Marker installed at Ramp

Examining The Poster

RAMP

Hamilton

 

Group Show
Marker
Curator: Kim Paton

 

May 29 - June 15


JH
Daniel Crooks, Imaginary Object #23, 2007, lambda print, 109 x 109 cm

Crooks Photographs and Videos

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Daniel Crooks
Imaginary Objects

 

25 May - 7 July 2012

WG
Larry Clark poster outside C/O Berlin

Larry Clark in Berlin

C/O BERLIN

Berlin

 

Solo exhibition

Larry Clark

 

26 May - 12 August 2012

JH
John Reynolds, Kepler's Dream, 2012, silver marker pen, acrylic and rainwater on three canvas panels. 2440 x 3600 mm

John Reynolds: Twenty Years Separation

SUE CROCKFORD GALLERY

Auckland

 

John Reynolds
Diptych of Triptychs

 

8 May - 9 June 2012


JH
Nick Austin's Notebook of a Spider at Hopkinson Cundy

New Austin Works

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Nick Austin
Notebook of a Spider

 

17 May - 16 June 2012

JH
On left, Erica van Zon, Poster Survey, 2007-2012, acrylic on paper. On right, Kirsty Bruce, Untitled, 2012, acrylic and watercolour on paper

Beyond Illustration?

MELANIE ROGER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Group show

Kirsty Bruce / Sam Mitchell / Erica van Zon

 

16 May - 9 June 2012

 

JH
Simon Denny, Performance Video, 2008, screen-printed canvas, fluorescent tube, cardboard, converators tape, aluminium box frame, 1100 x 1300 x 200 mm. Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki

Objects and Latent Performancivity

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Chartwell Collection 
Made Active: The Chartwell Show
Curated by Natasha Conland

 

14 April - 15 July 2012