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JH
The cover of Iteration Again.

Liveness Quadrupled

Iteration Again
Edited by David Cross
Essays by David Cross and Marco Marcon
Plus assorted curatorial briefs and invited responses with illustrations.
Punctum Books, March 2013

Performance Commodified? Without ‘aura’?

JH
The Bold and The Beautiful at Two Rooms: Elizabeth Thomson, The Cascades; Denis O'Connor, The Verbs; Denis O'Connor, The Whisperants; Gretchen Albrecht, Corona (Roseate). Photo: Sam Hartnett

The Adventurous and the Gorgeous

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Seven artists
The Bold and the Beautiful

 

12 December - 21 December 2013. 28 January - 5 February 2014

Seven artists at Two Rooms

JH
Rob Gardiner's Here and Now at Two Rooms. Untitled (Nos. 2 - 7), 2013, photograph and paint on glass, 1007 x 1007 mm. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Rob Gardiner Photo/Paintings

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Rob Gardiner
The Here and Now

 

13 December - 21 December 2013. 28 January - 5 February 2014

Exploring space with shallow ‘trays’


JH
Richard McWhannell, Crossing the Lake, 2013, oil on canvas, 463 x 550 mm

Pierrot the Melancholic Painter

OREXART

Auckland

 

Richard McWhannell
Crossing the Lake

 

3 December - 21 December 2013

Maudlin or ironic and cynical?

JH
A detail of the installation of Chiara Corbelletto's Morphic Field at Bath St Gallery.

Corbelletto’s Mesh Sculpture

BATH STREET GALLERY

Auckland

 

Chiara Corbelletto
Morphic Field

 

26 November - 21 December 2013

A new direction

JH
Glen Hayward, I don't want you to worry about me. I've met some Beautiful People (detail). Photo: Hamish McLaren

Glen Hayward’s Movie Set

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Glen Hayward
I don’t want you to worry about me. I have met some Beautiful People

 

6 December 2013 - 31 January 2014

The Matrix as footnote


JH
Andrew Kennedy, a hollow action, a room held together by letters, pigment print, harman gloss, baryta 320 320 gsm, oak frames, chip board, aluminium. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Spotlighting Maurice K. Smith

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Andrew Kennedy and Blaine Western
a hollow action, a room held together by letters

 

28 November - 21 December 2013. 14 January - 1 February 2014

Unusual collaboration

JH
Yvonne Todd, Denim Seagull, 2013, HD digital video (ed. 1 of 3, 2 AP),  framed Panasonic 55” LED TV, 130 x 77 x 6 cm

Varied Todd

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Yvonne Todd
Gentle Disco

 

20 November - 21 December 2013

Range of media

JH
Richard Killeen, Images from Image Database, at Ivan Anthony.

Ornamental Hybrids from Killeen’s Database

IVAN ANTHONY GALLERY

Auckland

 

Richard Killeen
Reproductions From Image Database

 

20 November - 21 December 2013

Images on corrugated plastic


JH
Fiona Pardington, Still Life with Colin's Flagon with Precarious Kowhai Flowers and a Pansy, 2013, pigment inks on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag, 412 x 550 mm

Theatrical Pardington Vanitas Works

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Fiona Pardington
An Answering Hark: From the McCahon Artist’s Residency 2013

 

8 November - 7 December 2013

From the McCahon Residency

JH
Dane Mitchell, Rheum (Unconscious Material 4), 2013 inkjet print on cotton paper, frame 820 x 594 mm

Amber from the Psyche

HOPKINSON MOSSMAN

Auckland

 

Dane Mitchell
Other Explications

 

22 November - 21 December 2013

Honeyed ocular secretions

JH
et al., many to many, 2013 (installation detail), roller chairs, signage, metal tubing, sandbags, helium balloons, swiss balls, particle board, original installation in collaboration with Sean Curham one-to-many and many-to-one Khartoum Place 2010.

In Praise of ‘Invention, Forward Thinking and Liberty’

AUCKLAND ART GALLERY TOI O TAMAKI

Auckland

 

Twenty New Zealand artists

Freedom Farmers

 

26 October 2013 - 23 February 2014

Waving the Utopian flag


JH
Pat Brassington, A Rebours at Te Tuhi. Facing us, Radar, 2009, pigment print. Photo by Sam Hartnett

Brassington in Auckland

TE TUHI CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

Auckland

 

Pat Brassington

Á Rebours

 

9 November 2013 - 9 February 2014

Surrealist photography from Tasmania

JH
Richard Maloy's All the Things I did at Starkwhite

Maloy Revisits Art School

STARKWHITE

Auckland

 

Richard Maloy
All the things I did

 

4 November - 30 November 2013

Going through his archives

JH
Seraphine Pick, Pile Up, 2013, oil on canvas, 400 x 500 mm

The Pains (or Pleasures) of Inebriation

MICHAEL LETT

Auckland

 

Seraphine Pick
Wankered Again

 

16 November - 21 December 2013

Condemnation or espousal?


JH
Henry Babbage, Welcome to a world through glass, at Gloria Knight

Babbage at Knight

GLORIA KNIGHT

Auckland

 

Henry Babbage
Welcome to a world through glass

 

8 November - 23 November 2013

Investigating consumerist technology

JH
Judy Darragh, International Beggar at Two Rooms, showing Nos. 1-5. Photos of cardboard signs for Judy Darragh by Sam Hartnett. Gallery documentation by Jennifer French.

Ciphers for the Homeless

TWO ROOMS

Auckland

 

Judy Darragh
International Beggar

 

8 November - 7 December 2013

Poverty invades the white cube

JH
Graham Fletcher at Melanie Roger

Edge and Sprouting Form

MELANIE ROGER GALLERY

Auckland

 

Two person show

Graham Fletcher & Ruth Thomas-Edmond

 

23 October - 16 November 2013

Flat versus relief


JH
Sorawit Songsataya, Jacques, 2013, video still

The Limits of Education

AUDIO FOUNDATION

Auckland

 

Sorawit Songsataya
Jacques

 

8 November - 30 November 2013

Lifestyle crisis

JH
Jorge Satorre's Emic Etic? installation at Artspace. Photo: Sam Hartnett

Interpreting Local Culture

ARTSPACE AOTEAROA

Auckland

 

Jorge Satorre
Emic Etic?

 

25 October - 16 November 2013

Visitor perceptions

JH
Oleg Polounine, Reverse Engineering, 2013, installation detail; photo by Rob Garrett

Thinking Forward by Looking Backward

Corner window gallery

Auckland

 

Oleg Polounine
Reverse Engineering

 

16 October - 4 December 2013

Tinkering as an aid to analysis