Jodie Salmond: Hopes for the Future, is a rare public
sculpture brought to you by the Blue Oyster. This temporary
off-site installation offers a communal space for
reflection. Hopes for the Future will be open from 8-10pm
every evening between 7 - 12 December. It will be located on
the corner of Gowland and Albany Streets behind the National
Bank, Dunedin.
Read more >>
A Museum of Obsessions pays homage to the late swiss curator
Harald Szeemann who coined the phrase and established the
kind of speculative thought that drives contemporary
curatorial practice. Szeemann identified a ‘museum of
obsessions’ as the space that artists occupy when they are
driven by the intense individual energies of obsession to
create their own intellectual and sensorial worlds. Picking
up and expanding on this idea, curator Jodie Dalgleish
brings together fourteen artists whose work manifests the
creative obsession that drives artistic practice and
generates concepts of the self.
Read more >>
The Blue Oyster is pleased to present Juan James Sydney
Simon: Papillon et Merci et au Revoir, Liz Rowe: Never Too
Careful and Max Bellamy: 99 Ways to Solve Global Warming, at
5:30pm on Tuesday 2 November at the Blue Oyster. With these
shows the artists confront us with contemporary social and
environmental problems and the barriers to change that
continue to exist. Their works stand as a challenge to
revise set patterns of thinking and doing and a provocation
to look for solutions at a personal level. The exhibitions
run until the 27 of October.
Read more >>
Artists blog: http://inachronologicalmanor.tumblr.com/
Read more >>
Introduced Birds is an exhibition by the artist collective
ffffff involving a series of interlinked environments that
conjure up a nervous tension and feeling of barren
isolation. Visitors become performers are as they move
through three minimalist environments, activating the space
with movement and sound. Their psychological terrains tap
into an undercurrent of individual alienation and anxiety
symptomatic of the mechanisms of modern socialisation.
Read more >>
The Blue Oyster is pleased to present Roger Boyce and
Marie-Claire Brehaut: Nature Morte | Joe Worley: Bewildering
Scheme | Melissa Laing: a small metal pin, a piece of
rubber, a section of metal pipe with securing nut...
exhibitions which spiral around our morbid fascination with
death, depravity, disorientation, disaster, doubt, danger
and destruction. The shows will open on Tuesday 10 August at
5:30pm and run until 4 September.
Read more >>
*Media Povera: Brett Ian Balogh, Radio Cegeste, Ryan
Cockburn, Edie Eves, Helga Fassonaki, Alexander MacKinnon.
Curated by Sally Ann McIntyre*
Read more >>
The Blue Oyster is pleased to present Light Sensitive:
Alternative Photographic Technologies and Anna Perry: Fog.
These exhibitions converge with a focus on alternative
chemical and analogue technologies for the synthetic
construction of sensations, whether in the replication of an
image or scent. They share too an interest in our proclivity
for creating and clinging to those things that hold an
ability to trigger our memories. The exhibitions will open
on Tuesday 18 May at 5:30pm and run until 12 June.
Read more >>
This month the Blue Oyster is pleased to present the
exhibitions Simon Kaan: The Asian, Anna Muirhead: Polytears
and Bryce Galloway: Same Same (Incredibly Hot Sex with
Hideous People) and a new public artwork by James Voller:
Displacement.
Read more >>
*Blue Oyster Performance Series*
Read more >>
The Blue Oyster is pleased to present RE-FIBRA: Contemporary
Textile Art - A Dialogue Between New Zealand and Sweden
opening on Tuesday 23 February at 5:30pm and running until
Saturday 20 March.
Read more >>
Every year the Blue Oyster stages a Grad Show to showcase
experimental and innovative art works created by recent
graduates from the Otago Polytechnic School of Fine Arts.
This year's exhibition will feature works by Debbie Adamson,
Gwen Hudson, John Paxie, Alex MacKinnon, Lars Preisser and
Jesse Simons. As a new twist the 2010 Grad Show has been
curated by recent graduate of the Otago University Art
History and Theory programme Lauren Gutsell; making this a
truly pan-institutional graduate exhibition.
Read more >>
The Blue Oyster is pleased to present Nice to meet you Eddie
Clemens and Simon Lawrence opening on Tuesday 15 June at
5:30pm and running until Saturday 10 July. Having studied
together in Christchurch over a decade ago, Eddie Clemens
and Simon Lawrence have always perceived an affinity in
their approaches to art making. They nevertheless take very
different trajectories and always end up in very different
places. This exhibition provides a rare opportunity for them
to set their works on a collision path. Within the confines
of the Blue Oyster gallery spaces they will test out
intersecting hypotheses and conduct pseudo-scientific
experiments, in what may appear to be entirely parallel
universes.
Read more >>