Mention in The Dominion Post

Thanks to Mark Amery for the mention of shows at Suite Pop Up Gallery and JJMorgan & Co.

Art is invading Wellington, with new galleries, artist-run-spaces, windows... and there is more to come!

'Doing Art Politically: What Does This Mean?'

Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn delivers the annual lecture at the Royal Academy Schools, London.

http://www.artreview.com/video/thomas-hirschhorn-doing-art
http://www.artreview.com/video/thomas-hirschhorn-doing-art-1
http://www.artreview.com/video/thomas-hirschhorn-doing-art-2

Ragnar Kjartansson

"Ragnar Kjartansson is a musician, actor and an artist. As for his motivation, he says: “Art is for me like the Blues: I use it to purify my soul. Maybe I’m a romantic on a hungry pursuit for the ultimate art kick.” This is what distinguishes him: one who loves the show element, constantly slipping into new roles, changing his identities and realities, will basically always remain authentic. Wherever Kjartansson is at any one time, is also where his stage is". (Christian Schoen, CIA.IS – Center for Icelandic Art)

Ryan Trecartin: it's good because it's awful...

"Camp proposes a comic vision of the world. But not a bitter or polemical comedy. If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment". (Susan Sontag, Notes on Camp, 1964)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR4sHDR-1XE