Night Talks At Adam Gallery

Architecture and its latency
Paul James speaks at the Adam Art Gallery

This Thursday
30 July 2009
6-7pm

Paul James from the School of Architecture will discuss two questions raised by the exhibition project The Future is Unwritten.
How can artworks activate the latent cultural content of a site? And, how have the artists in this exhibition negotiated the legacy of institutional critique generated by conceptual artists and art theorists during the 1960’s and 70’s?

UPCOMING NIGHT TALKS
Academics from Victoria University of Wellington speak at the Adam Art Gallery
Thursdays 6pm
13.08.09          Minette Hillyer - Media after modernity
27.08.09          Ralph Chapman and Andrew Wilks – The environment and energy use

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The Future is Unwritten
11 July – 30 August 2009

Onsite: Fiona Connor, William Hsu, Daniel Malone, Kate Newby, Martyn Reynolds, Peter Trevelyan
Online: Amit Charan, Narrow Gauge, Kelvin Soh
Curated by Laura Preston

The starting point for this exhibition project was to invite nine artists, designers and writers to consider how art can engage, by means of its forms and structures, in the political realities of this moment. The artists’ projects will act as a series of proposals for embracing this time of uncertainty, where structures and systems that we have come to know are being brought into focus and re-defined. Using the gallery as a place of proposition, the works presented both in the building and online, will question the political efficacy of contemporary art by suggesting other ways to claim space and be resourceful within it. Furthermore, the exhibition will employ the university as a place for interdisciplinary thinking, to ask whether a pedagogical site can re-think art’s purpose and affect. Accompanied by a public programme of night talks, a workshop and sound event, the Adam Art Gallery will become an active site of discussion and an unfolding resource.

WEBSITE PROJECT
www.adamartgallery.org.nz/thefuture

We are open Tuesday to Sunday 11-5

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Architecture and its latency
Paul James speaks at the Adam Art Gallery

This Thursday
30 July 2009
6-7pm

Paul James from the School of Architecture will discuss two questions raised by the exhibition project The Future is Unwritten.
How can artworks activate the latent cultural content of a site? And, how have the artists in this exhibition negotiated the legacy of institutional critique generated by conceptual artists and art theorists during the 1960’s and 70’s?

UPCOMING NIGHT TALKS
Academics from Victoria University of Wellington speak at the Adam Art Gallery
Thursdays 6pm
13.08.09          Minette Hillyer - Media after modernity
27.08.09          Ralph Chapman and Andrew Wilks – The environment and energy use

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