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What's coming up at City Gallery 16-19 November
We’ve got a jam-packed few days here at the Gallery with a new season of exhibitions opening, exhibition closing, a live quadraphonic-sound performance, exhibition tours, two artist talks, Gordon H. Brown Lecture, and NZIA talk.
Read on to find out more about our events and exhibitions.
Weekend
Exhibition Tours
Saturdays and Sundays, 12:15pm |
Free
Get more out of your visit this weekend with an
exhibition tour of our closing exhibition
Eavesdropping. No bookings needed, meet in the
foyer.
https://citygallery.org.nz/events/weekend-exhibition-tours-8/
News from the Sun Artists Talks
Sat 16 November, 2pm
| Free
On the opening day of News from the Sun,
join us for short conversations with the artists: Justine
Varga talks with Kirsty Baker, Shaun Waugh with Geoffrey
Batchen, and Harry Culy with Senior Curator Aaron
Lister.
https://citygallery.org.nz/events/news-from-the-sun-artist-talks/
Performance: How Does a Straight Line Feel?
Sat 16
November, 4pm | Free
Artists Bryan Phillips and Fayen
d’Evie present a live quadraphonic-sound performance. They
are in Wellington as part of the Te Whare Hēra Eavesdropping Residency,
a partnership with Massey University's Te Whare Hēra,
supported by Liquid Architecture through Creative Victoria's
International Engagement programme. In association with
Eavesdropping.
https://citygallery.org.nz/events/performance-how-does-a-straight-line-feel/
Hoda Afshar Artist Talk
Sun 17 November, 2pm |
Free
Iranian-Australian artist Hoda Afshar discusses her
photographic practice, including her award-winning portrait
of Behrouz Boochani—the Iranian-Kurdish writer and asylum
seeker detained on Manus Island. Afshar will also show an
excerpt of her film Remain.
She is joined in
conversation with Murdoch Stephens, editor and refugee
campaigner #DoubletheQuota. In association with Eavesdropping.
https://citygallery.org.nz/events/hoda-afshar-artist-talk/
NZIA City Talks: Elizabeth Cox: Make Room for Her
Story
Mon 18 Nov, 6pm | Free
Elizabeth Cox, a
Wellington architectural historian, discusses women’s
contributions to New Zealand’s architectural
history.
https://citygallery.org.nz/events/nzia-city-talks-elizabeth-cox-make-room-for-her-story/
Gordon H. Brown Lecture: Anthony Byrt on Simon
Denny
Tues 19 Nov, 6pm | Free
Byrt will discuss the
ways Denny's work examines the growing and pervasive impact
of ‘surveillance capitalism’ on our lives and how Denny
and a handful of his contemporaries internationally are
deploying monsters and the grotesque to create new visions
of how digital technologies are reshaping the world around
us. In partnership with Victoria University of
Wellington.
https://citygallery.org.nz/events/gordon-h-brown-lecture-anthony-byrt/
Closing exhibitions
Eavesdropping
Closing this
Sun 17 November
Eavesdropping used to be a
crime, but now it’s everywhere This exhibition explores
the politics of listening in our post-Snowden moment. But it
isn’t just about big data, surveillance, and security,
it’s also about our personal responsibilities as
earwitnesses. Featuring an international line up of artists,
Eavesdropping is an ongoing collaboration between
Liquid Architecture and Melbourne Law School. It was first
presented last year at Ian Potter Museum of Art, University
of Melbourne.
Steve
Carr: Chasing the Light
16 November–15 March 2020
In
a six-screen video installation, drone-mounted cameras
observe a fireworks display from multiple viewpoints
simultaneously, placing viewers inside the action. Presented
without sound, Christchurch artist Steve Carr undercuts the
anticipated drama, offering a chilled-out take on a familiar
spectacle. A Christchurch Art Gallery exhibition.
https://citygallery.org.nz/exhibitions/steve-carr-chasing-the-light/
News from the Sun
16 November–15 March
2020
Wellington’s Harry Culy and Shaun Waugh and
Sydney’s Justine Varga put new spins on familiar
photographic motifs: the horizon, the still life, the
window. Reiterating, abstracting, and transforming their
motifs, they traverse the cliché.
https://citygallery.org.nz/exhibitions/news-from-the-sun/
ends
Braden Currie: Sets Sights On The Ironman North American Championships In Texas
Whanganui Regional Museum: Historic Wedding Dress Unveiled, A Piece Of Marton’s Heritage
Donovan Ryan: Local Runner Takes Out Frontrunner Christchurch Marathon
University of Auckland: Tributes Flow For Much Loved Pacific Leader Melegalenu’u Ah Sam
NZEI: Ministry Of Education Cuts Will Disproportionately Affect Pasifika
Day One Hapai te Haeata: Call To Action For Young Filmmakers Against The Backdrop Of Funding Cuts