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

Sleepless nights

Two festivals will take place for one night only, from sunset to sunrise: Glow in Santa Monica (25 Sept) and Nuit Blanche in Toronto (2 Oct). Glow 2010 will commission 20 original artworks specifically for this one-night event. Artists include Anne Bray (Los Angeles), Céleste Boursier-Mougenot (Séte, France), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (Montreal, Canada), Yoshua Okón (Mexico City) and Steve Roden (Los Angeles) . Nuit Blanche Toronto will organize more than 130 free and accessible contemporary art projects within 3 zones. Each zone features a mixture of Exhibition Projects and Independent Projects.

Experience art in unexpected places...

Exhibition of the week: Lisa Munnelly

The artist is interested in providing a ‘temporal and corporeal account of the drawing process’; that is, in investigating the relationship between drawing, time and the body. These are works which acknowledge that seeing takes time; the title of the exhibition refers not only to the work involved in their conception and realisation, but also to the physical experience of seeing them. Rather than re-present an image or idea, according to the practice of conventional drawing, these works operate in the immediate tense, to present energy, time and space on visual terms.

Compelling, mesmerising... pure poetry. Don't miss out on her performance films too.