Posted by on 26 March 2010 | 0 Comments
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Awards
Olivia Spencer Bower Foundation are recieving applications for two awards of $30,000 for 2011-12.
Recipients will also be offered a sudio residency at the Christchurch Arts Centre.
Applications are called from emerging artists. Application forms can be dowloaded from www.oliviaspencerbower.org.nz
Applications close 30 June 2010.
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Posted by on 5 March 2010 | 0 Comments
The Wellington Institute of Technology is delighted to announce that applications are now open for the Rita Angus Artist’s Residency for 2010.
The Residency supports an artist to produce a new body of work that reflects upon the interplay between technology and culture. The Residency also encourages the artist to enter into dialogue with the Wellington arts community and to exhibit and discuss their practice. The Rita Angus Residency is being offered in association with the Wellington Institute of Technology’s School of Creative Technologies.
For more information, and to apply, visit the website at http://www.weltec.ac.nz/residency/rita_angus_residency.html
Applications should be received by 5pm, Monday 3 May, 2010. Direct enquiries and applications to hamish.tocher@weltec.ac.nz .
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Posted by on 4 March 2010 | 0 Comments
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Opportunities
HSP presents an open call for proposals for its late-2010/early-2011 programme. The gallery extends this call to both emerging and established artists in all fields, including sound art and experimental music. Proposals are welcome from artists wishing to participate in curated, group or solo shows and projects in and outside the gallery.
Applications should include: A current artist's CV (outline of current work, education, exhibitions, reviews, publications etc); An exhibition proposal including physical and conceptual descriptions, diagrams and sketches. Clearly define the project and state any special requirements.
Email or post proposals to: P.O Box 3733, Christchurch; hsp.coordinator at gmail dot com; phone us, or drop in at level 1, 84 Lichfield Street, Christchurch.
DEADLINE: TUESDAY 30 MARCH 2010.
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Posted by on 2 March 2010 | 0 Comments
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Film,
Dunedin
The Dunedin Film Society remains the only organisation in town that is dedicated to showing a broad cross section of significant films from around the world. Unlike more commercial enterprises, the Dunedin Film Society screens classic and experimental masterpieces from every period of cinema history, as well as more recent creations from many different nations (including our own). So whether you are a film lover, an aspiring film-maker, or simply interested in learning more about other cultures, our 2010 programme has something for all of you. Check it out here: http://dunedinfilmsociety.tripod.com/
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Posted by on 27 January 2010 | 0 Comments
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Otago
Expressions of interest are being sought by Dunedin City Council from creative agencies to develop a new brand strategy for the city.
See http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/news/january-2010/nationwide-search-to-deliver-city-promotion for details.
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Posted by on 20 January 2010 | 0 Comments
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Publication,
Otago
The recently released Volume 30 (2009) of The Journal of New Zealand Art History has a strong Otago focus featuring:
Ruth Pullin on Eugène von Guérard and the geognostic landscape in New Zealand;
Ralph Body on Alfred O’Keeffe’s later paintings;
Warren Feeney on William Baverstock and the arts in Canterbury;
David Bell on New Zealand views of Japan through Ukiyo-e;
Elly van de Wijdeven on the paua jewellery of Alfred Atkinson and Arthur Morrison;
Edward Hanfling on paintings by Douglas Badcock;
Leonard Bell on migrant central European photographers Frank Hofmann and Irene Koppel;
Plus book reviews on The Art Instinct, Charles Heaphy and Rita Angus.
Editors: Mark Stocker and Anna Petersen
Published by The Hocken Collections, Uare Taoka o Hakena, University of Otago, New Zealand
Contact Hocken Collections for more details: http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/hocken/index.html
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Posted by Jaenine Parkinson on 2 December 2009 | 0 Comments
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Dunedin Fringe Festival,
Sylvia Schwenk,
Sudhir Duppati,
Sarah Forgan
The Dunedin Fringe Festival programme will be launched on Thursday 26 February. The Festival will run from 26 March until 5 April.
The Blue Oyster will be hosting three performances as a part of the Fringe Festival:
Sylvia Schwenk - [i]X Dunedin Performance[/i] 1pm Fri 27 March in the Octogan[/i]
Sudhir Duppati -[i]Devoltion #1 "Thus I spoke Silence" 5:30pm Fri 27 March at the Blue Oyster[/i]
Sarah Forgan - [i]Wish: About Spaces 2pm Sat 4 April at the Blue Oyster[/i]
An exhibition of Sylvia Schwenk's work at the Blue Oyster gallery, titled [i]They Paved Paradise Put up a Parking Lot[/i], will be launched on Tuesday 24 March at 5:30pm with an opening performance [i]Boots for Rising Water[/i].
Work by Sudhir Duppati and Sarah Forgan will also be exhibited at the Blue Oyster Gallery from 24 March - 18 April.
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Posted by Jaenine on 21 October 2009 | 0 Comments
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Dance
Dunedin's contemporary dance group Dance Lab is set to premiere its season of new work Underground Renaissance in Dunedin on 23 and 24 October, featuring the choreography of Ojeya Cruz-Banks (University of Otago Dance Studies), Lisa Wilkinson (Rasa School of Dance), Jack Gray (Atamira Dance Collective) and Kilda Northcott (Bipeds Productions), with lighting design by the award winning Martyn Roberts (University of Otago Theatre Studies).
Underground Renaissance presents a collage of bold dance pieces that explore themes of counterculture, freedom, resistance, cultural diversity and identity.
DATES: Friday 23 and Saturday 24 October
TIME: 7.30pm
VENUE: Allen Hall Theatre, cnr Union/Leith Streets, Dunedin.
DOOR SALES: $20/$15, Group 6+ $15/$10 Cash only.
Bookings: dancelab.otago@gmail.com
A conversational-style forum directly follows the performance where the audience will gain insight into the creative process of this performance experience.
Underground Renaissance is being produced with the support of the Dunedin City Council Creative Communities Scheme and the Humanities Department Performing Arts Fund.
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Posted by Jaenine on 25 September 2009 | 0 Comments
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Oppotunities
Enjoy Public Art Gallery is currently seeking proposals from artists and curators for our 2010 Summer Residency. The residency has been part of Enjoy's programme since 2001, and it is designed to assist practitioners develop a significant new project, through research and critical discourse in a stimulating and supportive environment. This residency will mark Enjoy's 10th Anniversary.
The 2010 Residency is a free-form opportunity for a practitioner to spend four weeks in Wellington, to research and develop a new and experimental body of work. The residency does not need to take the form of an exhibition.
The residency provides practitioners with the opportunity to work from Enjoy, and utilise the gallery as a studio or research space. It is our hope that during the residency the gallery will also provide a place of discussion and interaction with social or critical networks, the gallery’s staff and community.
Maintaining a critical platform for the development of the project is an integral part of the residency. The successful applicant will be asked to present a public seminar or workshop relating to their particular research process or project. This could involve another professional artist or other specialist practitioner relevant to the resident’s research process.
Throughout the residency the practitioner/s will receive curatorial and administrative support from Enjoy.
Some past Enjoy Summer Residencies include Kate Montgomery and Hamish Win, Eve Armstrong, Liz Allan, and Laura Preston.
Proposals should contain sufficient information to communicate the concepts behind the project. Documentation of past projects is desirable. We offer a modest practitioner fee and materials fee for the residency, subject to budgets.
If you would like any further information regarding submitting a proposal, please contact the Gallery Manager and Curator, Siv B. Fjærestad, siv@enjoy.org.nz
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Posted by Jaenine on 17 September 2009 | 0 Comments
Please join us at the Blue Oyster Art Project Space on Wednesday 23 September at 5:30pm for the next Blue Oyster Session.
For our fourth discussion we are going to tackle the many questions and implications behind how artists are selected for inclusion in exhibitions and other programmes.
Specifically, we want to address issues around trying to provide access and representation versus an intention to stimulate discussion and innovation and to what extent these things are mutually exclusive. This paradox is not unique to the Blue Oyster, but it is one that has been grappled with constantly over the ten years of our existence, as Ali Bramwell articulates in the publication produced for the Blue Oyster's tenth anniversary:
"One of the most pressing philosophical arguments to occur in this institution over the years concerns how artists’ works are selected or rejected for exhibition. This issue has a social dimension and repercussion; a cooperative model is not easily compatible with a system that also seeks conceptual rigor and strives to promote quality standard. Some kind of balance is required." - Ali Bramwell
Joining us to share their experiences and approaches to artist selection will be:
* Jodie Dalgleish - Independent curator
* Paul Smith - Director of the Dunedin Fringe Festival
* Ali Bramwell - Curator of Unstable Institutional Memory: 10 Years at the Blue Oyster and Lecturer at Otago Polytechnic School of Art
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