Exhibitions » Exhibition Archive » 2008
Give Us a Sign
17 December 2008 - 14 June 2009 / Entire
Seven artists and/or graphic designers have been invited to each contribute two or three works responding to the call to ‘Give us a sign’.
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One Day Sculpture Project
9 - 9 October 2008 / Entire
Amy Howden Chapman works in a range of media including performative collaborations. Her work considers social and emotional responses to our soundings, particularly sites where urban settings meet natural and environmental phenomena. A dance is created between fable and fact, science and prophecy. Reaction is summoned, and an event becomes a chant.
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Fiona Hall: Force Field
12 July - 19 October 2008 / Entire
In Fiona Hall: Force Field natural curiosity, everyday materials and an exquisitely unpredictable imagination meet. Sardine tins, knitted videotape and birds nests’ made of American dollars feature in a show rife with transformations, where metaphors are used to challenge representation and revisualise everyday objects. Force Field leads the viewer along a provocative route via utopian narratives, the histories of language and colonisation, and the ethics of consumption.
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Aniwaniwa: Brett Graham & Rachael Rakena
23 February - 15 June 2008 / Entire
Aniwaniwa--te hokinga mai. The stunning large-scale collaborative art work by Brett Graham and Rachael Rakena centres on the theme of submersion, as a metaphor for cultural loss, while also exploring Maori indentity as being in a state of flux.
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Reboot: The Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection
23 February - 15 June 2008 / Entire
Reboot: The Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection offers a rare opportunity to view the evolution of one of New Zealand’s most significant private contemporary art collections.
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Last Riot: AES+F
23 February - 15 June 2008 / Entire
AES+F’s Last Riot (2007) is a three-channel video work, where the virtual world is envisaged as a vast self-propagating and mutating organism which is growing exponentially. A new epoch is created, where time collapses in on itself, in this apocalyptic vision heroism is survival, difference a fatal vulnerability and hyper-eroticism naturalised. The ‘last riot’ is merely the latest outbreak of violence and aggression: history, ideology and ethics are dead.
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Tracey Moffatt: Doomed & Love
17 November 2007 - 10 February 2008 / Entire
A hi-octane depiction of war, violence and terror, Doomed is comprised of cinema clips of both fictional and reconstructed events drawn from early silent films to the latest Hollywood blockbuster. Steeped with dark humour, the work will invoke a variety of emotional responses—from amusement to alarm. Made in collaboration with Gary Hillberg, Doomed not only plays with the “disaster” genre but demonstrates how the viewer can be seduced by the emotional hook of imminent tragedy
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