Plastic Maori @ The New Dowse, with Andre Te Hira, Aroha Armstrong, Christina Wirihana, Gina Matchitt, Hemi MacGregor, Inez Crawford, Jacob Scott, Michael Parekowhai, Ngatai Taepa, Rangi Kipa, Dr Robert Jahnke, Suzanne Tamaki, Tawa Hunter and Wayne Youle.
July 27, 2009
Exhibition of the week
Plastic Maori @ The New Dowse, with Andre Te Hira, Aroha Armstrong, Christina Wirihana, Gina Matchitt, Hemi MacGregor, Inez Crawford, Jacob Scott, Michael Parekowhai, Ngatai Taepa, Rangi Kipa, Dr Robert Jahnke, Suzanne Tamaki, Tawa Hunter and Wayne Youle.
July 23, 2009
July 13, 2009
July 11, 2009
July 10, 2009
Contemporary legend: The Mythology of Urban Bohemia (article/project to develop)
Urban bohemia and creation of mythologies and personal tales, living on the edge.
Notes:
-Bohemian is defined in The American College Dictionary as "a person with artistic or intellectual tendencies, who lives and acts with no regard for conventional rules of behavior."
-Laren Stover, breaks down the Bohemian into five distinct mind-sets/styles in Bohemian Manifesto: a Field Guide to Living on the Edge. The five types are:
Nouveau:- bohemians with money who attempt to join traditional bohemianism with contemporary culture
Gypsy:- drifters, neo-hippies, and others with nostalgia for previous, romanticized eras
Beat:- also drifters, but non-materialist and art-focused
Zen:- "post-beat," focus on spirituality rather than art
Dandy:- no money, but try to appear as if they have it by expensive or rare items
-Bohemia's ongoing engagement with popular culture, urban experience and modernity
-The bohemian artist's identity is forged in dialogue with popular performance in urban spaces within the context of a mass market economy.
Notions:
legend (as in story and legendary), obsession, emotional life as subject, blurring distinction between life and art, apperance and reality, sexuality and gender, marginal and traditional...
Notes:
-Bohemian is defined in The American College Dictionary as "a person with artistic or intellectual tendencies, who lives and acts with no regard for conventional rules of behavior."
-Laren Stover, breaks down the Bohemian into five distinct mind-sets/styles in Bohemian Manifesto: a Field Guide to Living on the Edge. The five types are:
Nouveau:- bohemians with money who attempt to join traditional bohemianism with contemporary culture
Gypsy:- drifters, neo-hippies, and others with nostalgia for previous, romanticized eras
Beat:- also drifters, but non-materialist and art-focused
Zen:- "post-beat," focus on spirituality rather than art
Dandy:- no money, but try to appear as if they have it by expensive or rare items
-Bohemia's ongoing engagement with popular culture, urban experience and modernity
-The bohemian artist's identity is forged in dialogue with popular performance in urban spaces within the context of a mass market economy.
Notions:
legend (as in story and legendary), obsession, emotional life as subject, blurring distinction between life and art, apperance and reality, sexuality and gender, marginal and traditional...
July 9, 2009
Rust Never Sleeps (1981, 103 min, Dir. Neil Young)
Or how the dream of authenticity doesn't die easily.
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