ARTICULATE

16.9.15

Opening night of The Immaterial - film and object - open till 27 September

opening night images by Lucinda Clutterbuck

7.9.15

The Immaterial opens on Friday 11 September 6-8pm

Video works and object relations.

Kiri Mitchel, Rebecca Agnew, Joe Worley, Phoebe Thompson, The Yellow Men.

Curated by Michele Beevors

Video is a compromised word. To describe the work in this exhibition as video is misrepresentative. Video tape has been outmoded and replaced by the digital and yet it seems to describe the work produced by these New Zealand artists better than digital video and computer generated imagery (CGI) associations with wiz bang technology and multimillion dollar effects. These works sit more easily with the concreteness, the thingness of video tape. Here the material world of toffee, rubber gloves, hair, and architecture to examine the relationships we as humans have to objects rendered present through the video camera and projector.

The artists in this exhibition have all graduated at some point from the Sculpture Department at Dunedin School of Art. This perspective of literally thinking through the implications of the relationship of film to object have developed as a direct result of the programme and result in works rendered through Claymation, performance and architecture.

17.8.15

Triangulation 2 opens Friday 21 August at 6-8pm

A collaborative project by Julie Brooke & Susan Buret

Opening Friday 21 August 6-8pm

Open 11am - 5pm Friday - Sunday 22 Aug - 6 Sept

Artists' talks - 3 pm on Sunday 6 September

Triangulation refers to a dialogue between Brooke and Buret that concerns not only the geometric forms with which they
work, but also the mathematical process of using two fixed points to determine a new, unknown value. Working two
hundred kilometers apart, this dialogue often takes the form of intuitive responses to ideas expressed in emails
and conversations, as well looking at and responding to works in progress.

In the summer of 2014 Brooke and Buret both began making work using the colours and forms of butterflies.
Brooke’s paintings arose from a collaboration with applied mathematicians who analyse complex structures inside
butterfly wing scales, while Buret’s work was informed by her observations of Blue Jewel butterflies,
Hypochrysops delicia, in her garden. Using the shared visual language of grids and geometric forms, Brooke and Buret
explore the possibilities of tapestry, painting and modular constructions to establish the third point of the triangle.