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MIC Toi Rerehiko presents Mirror Me
*Unfortunately Geekosystem which was planned to run in Gallery 3 alongside Mirror Me has been postponed. See below for updated media release.
MEDIA RELEASE for immediate release
MIC Toi Rerehiko presents
Mirror Me
MIC Toi Rerehiko will be displaying breathtaking new work from renowned performance artist Shona McCullagh.
Mirror Me is an interactive work by New Zealand Arts Foundation Laureate filmmaker and award winning choreographer Shona McCullagh. The work has been created in collaboration with multimedia artist Michael Hodgson (from electronic dub band Pitch Black) and composer John Gibson. McCullagh’s CNZ Choreographic Fellowship allowed her to join forces with Hodgson to explore interactive software and its relationship with the moving body. A collection of scenes were created which culminated in a series of installations that the artists now improvise with. Passionate about the body’s ability to communicate in ways words cannot, McCullagh’s shift towards moving installations provides an opportunity for the audience to become the work itself. Michael Hodgson and John Gibson provide the intriguing soundscape to the work, which audiences will move to and be moved by.
This
installation will be housed in Gallery One at MIC Toi
Rerehiko, it will be a site-specific space for the audience
to play in. McCullagh and Hodgson have developed four
installations on the theme of the self being welcomed and
translated into an ever-changing new art work. The screens
are only activated by human presence. Without the audience,
this art barely exists - they act as a vital trigger for the
screen based works which offer a relationship with the
viewer: a mirror, of sorts. Mirror Me also premieres the
launch of the first of McCullagh’s limited edition
interactive art works and screenings of her latest short
film, Mondo Nuovo.
Mirror Me
MIC Toi Rerehiko, 321
Karangahape Rd, City
March 28 – 3 May
Gallery Opening
Hours:
Tue - Fri, 10am – 6pm
Sat, 11am -
4pm
*Unfortunately Geekosystem which was planned to run in Gallery 3 has been postponed.
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