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Miranda Parkes
7 - 24 November 2011 / Square²
A glinting light, refracted off the edge of an ashtray, snags one’s peripheral vision. Upside down poplar trees appear reflected in a pool…in a frying pan. Sparkling Ashtray and Pan of Trees (both 2011) are a pair of new short films by Miranda Parkes, the most recent works in a filmed catalogue of such small moments framed by the artist.
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Richard Shepherd
17 October - 6 November 2011 / Square²
In this work Richard Shepherd silently performs a gesture of reclamation, tracing the boundary of Wellington's pre-1840 shoreline.
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Rob Hood
19 September - 16 October 2011 / Square²
Drawing upon two very different histories of adventure and settlement, Rob Hood's 2007 video Samuel Butler (My Rifle, My Pony and Me) is an engaging work that effortlessly complicates our initial reading of the scene at hand.
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Mei Ling Cooper
29 August - 18 September 2011 / Square²
In her film and sculptural installation works artist Mei Ling Cooper uses simple and functional objects, often with strong symbolic or allegorical associations.
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Nathan Pohio
6 - 28 August 2011 / Square²
Drawn from the physical manipulation of a lenticular image in front of the artist's camera, Nathan Pohio's silent work captures a galleon at sail with all of the attendant atmospherics that could be expected of such a scene.
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Candice Stock
15 July - 16 August 2011 / Square²
Running in the Starlight is part music video part self-portrait, realised in sumptuous and glittery handmade detail.
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Bryce Galloway
4 April - 5 May 2011 / Square²
Untitled (Hair Transposal Video) is the latest video by Bryce Galloway. It finds the artist in his bathroom, topless, attempting to transfer and glue the hair from his chest to the bald patch on his scalp.
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Kate Walker
7 March - 3 April 2011 / Square²
A work by video artist Kate Walker, made in collaboration with the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered) community in Nelson. It documents a public event staged by the artist, where members of this community participated in a mass hula hooping event.
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Dan Taulapapa-McMullin
16 February - 6 March 2011 / Square²
Sinalela is a cross cultural fairy tale, one which draws on the Western fable of Cinderella and the Samoan faagono (proverbial tale) of Sina and the Tuna (eel).
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Amy Howden-Chapman
16 January - 13 February 2011 / Square²
A new video work from Amy Howden-Chapman, a Wellingtonian now studying at the California Institute of Arts in Los Angeles.
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Tiffany Rewa Newrick: Untitled (a conversation with the body)
13 December 2010 - 15 January 2011 / Square²
Untitled (a conversation with the body) investigates how objects ‘perform’ in space as an amorphous inflated sculptural form advances gradually down a corridor towards us, then recedes, apparently moving without prompt.
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Murray Hewitt: Stations
15 November - 12 December 2010 / Square²
Desolate, derelict, deserted - Murray Hewitt's Stations turns the camera on abandoned petrol stations, casualties of oil price rises and economic recession.
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Michael Sperring
18 October - 14 November 2010 / Square²
Danse Le Discipline (2010) documents the artist’s performance of a highly singular routine. It is a solo dance, one which appears at once comic, intimate and strictly choreographed.
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Alex Martinis Roe
20 September - 17 October 2010 / Square²
The book features as body metaphor in Cut and Blätter, two recent films by Berlin based artist Alex Martinis Roe, which works continue the artist’s investigations into the body through performance, video and installation.
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Alicia Frankovich
30 August - 19 September 2010 / Square²
Alicia Frankovich’s recent work focuses on the body in performance. Often poised, suspended or in a state of restraint, her body evokes the perfectionist discipline of an athlete, and conversely, the provisionality of the apparatus or structure involved.
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