Event Highlights: 30 April – 13 May 2008
Welcome to the Christchurch Art Gallery e-Newsletter. Highlights this fortnight include the beginning of a great line-up of events for NZ Music Month, kicking off with a folk/pop performance by The Broken Heartbreakers. Also of interest is Ben Cauchi: Dead Time, a haunting photographic exhibition opening 3 May. Make sure you check out the new Outer Spaces feature in the foyer - a gigantic canine sculpture by Grant Takle.
NZ Music Month 2008
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Subsonic - Sound Art in the Bunker:
Bruce Russell & Greg Malcolm: Sound Art Installation
'I'll Come Following You' (2007)
All of May
The Bunker (stairway from underground car park to Gallery forecourt), free
This piece was recorded live at the opening of Bill Hammond's show 'Jingle Jangle Morning', using guitar, electronics, and multiple tape recorders.
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The Broken Heartbreakers
Folk / Pop: A special trio session with John Guy Howell, Rachel Bailey & Sam Prebble
Wed 7 May
7 – 9pm, Foyer Lounge Bar, free
Auckland-based "folk-pop" group The Broken Heartbreakers released their self-titled album in late 2007 to rave reviews the length & breadth of New Zealand.
Formed in 2002, the group have developed a strong live following and played with international acts such as Lou Barlow, Gina Villalobos and The Handsome Family.
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Wednesday Evenings
6pm, Auditorium, free unless otherwise stated
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French Documentary Film Festival
Wed 30 April
Public $5, Friends & Alliance Française members free
Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers
This unrivalled film documents the ruined lives & spiritual deaths of young prostitutes in Phnom Penh.
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Fashioning Loose Women: Dress Reformers of the 19th Century
Wed 7 May
Jennifer Queree, senior curator of decorative arts at Canterbury Museum, explores the revolutionary fashion ideas of the pre-Raphaelite, aesthetic, hygienic and socialist dress movements of the 19th century.
To be followed by:
Lecture and presentation by corset designer Jo Drysdall and her models.
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Corset and crinoline in steel by Jo Drysdall of Bastet Creations.
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William Morris and the Art of Everyday Life
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Sat 10 May, 9:30am - 5pm, Auditorium
$50, $25 students and unwaged
This one-day conference convened by the Australasian Victorian Studies Association and the University of Otago explores the relationship between Morris and the art of everyday life.
Professor Florence Boos of the University of Iowa, distinguished Morris scholar and president of the US Morris Society, is the keynote speaker.
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Morris & Company, London, Britain, 1861 - 1940. Attributed to May MORRIS, designer, Britain, 1862 - 1938. Attributed to Mary Isobel BARR SMITH, embroiderer,
Australia, 1863 - 1941. Hanging 1890s, embroidered Adelaide, London. Silk embroidery on silk. Mrs Mary Overton Gift Fund 1999. Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
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Opening soon!
Ben Cauchi False Light 2007. Ambrotype. Collection of the artist.
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Ben Cauchi: Dead Time
3 May - 3 August
Burdon Family Gallery
Ben Cauchi deftly manipulates light sources, studio effects and darkroom techniques to create a mysterious, illusory zone. Known for his use of mid-19th-century photographic processes, Dead Time reveals the results of a recently completed residency as Frances Hodgkins Fellow in Dunedin.
Catalogue and iPod Audio Tour available
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Now at the Gallery!
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Christchurch Art Gallery's foyer and forecourt have hosted some unexpected wildlife in the last eighteen months, from Gregor Kregar's colour-coordinated sheep to Michael Parekowhai's colossal cartoon rabbit.
Now Christchurch artist Grant Takle has supplied the Gallery with its own gigantic canine companion, guarding the building and mischievously marking this piece of cultural turf. Reignmaker will be on view at the Gallery through April and May.
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Grant Takle, Reignmaker, 2002/2008. Wood and Playing Cards. Collection of the Artist.
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