A MECHANISM OF LIFE 

Combining a self-conscious performance of Bon Jovi anthem 'You Give Love a Bad Name' with cutesy adolescent wall drawings in makeup and biro My Sister's Lashes treads the fine line between parody and reverence.

TAKE: 001 came about from the desire of curator Louise Tulett to run a video programme that considered moving image as a medium well suited to capturing experiences in relation to their length. Essentially, as quoted from the submission call: "I want to make a show of screenings about the decision to press record and the decision to stop". The videos on show are a varied and intriguing response to this initially open-ended parameter.

6pm Friday 23rd - 6pm Sunday 25th April 2004

Another 48 Hours: 24 hours to make the work, 24 hours to see it. 24 hours is a loop. A day. A night. A cell. A window.

With overtones of frustration and failure, I've given up on you tapped into the unavoidable expectations and ambitions we place on ourselves, our surroundings and not in the least, the experience of art.

Til Tomorrow examined time in flux, the construction of moments and the temporary. It employed the mechanics of the everyday to create a collection of interchangeable moments.

On behalf of Ryan Chadfield and Tao Wells and the Enjoy Public Art Gallery we bring you a show. Death and beauty in young naked people is a timeless subject explored here by two of Wellington's most enigmatic officers of insight.

The Length series opened with the 1999 calendar year of Shana Brown's project, The Nine O'clock Photos. As descriptive as the title suggests, for six years and counting, every evening at nine o'clock Brown takes a photograph. Operating as a retrospective slice of her on-going project, this first installment presents a whole year gathered in one room. 

FLOORED was a two-part installation project. The first part of the project was in the hallway from 17th February to 19th June, the second part opened in the gallery on 22nd June and ran until 3rd July.

After successful shows during 2003 at the High Street Project and the Blue Oyster gallery, the Enjoy Presents show returns home for a Wellington debut before heading north for the finale later this year at Rm 103. 

Mendt: Garment Repair Services. 

The second half of the Feature Wall series hosts a confronting challenge to the activity of space. Kim Paton's installation TIME WILL BREAK THE WORLD presented a sharply site responsive work calling on Minimalist traditions of monumentality and physicality through a use of distorted scale and a grandness of structure.

Colour, a constant companion of nearly all forms of life on this earth, has, like other great forces, potentials of good and evil.

In Dear Dancer Maddie Leach continued her inquiry into what has been termed 'sentimental minimalism' through the presentation of works that operated both as aesthetic objects and venues for participation, layering nostalgia and popular entertainment over minimalist formality.

Portable portrayed Dunedin's transient and nostalgic existence, and developed an almost tongue-in-cheek take on 'the other', looking to the local art community's perceived position as gently marginalised in the national context.

Do you watch film to understand?
She said something about life for her parent's generation.

Newall's residency at the Whangerei Polytechnic resulted in her investigation of materials such as glass and clay. Kelvin S. C. Corpus stemmed from these observations and experiments with materials and associated ideas of scientific processes and the creation of new beings.

In response to the organisation of the exhibition swap between Blue Oyster Gallery and the artist run spaces Enjoy Public Art Gallery in Wellington and High Street Project in Christchurch, Enjoy Presents seeks to reveal the gestures of union and support that constitute the community of spaces such as Enjoy.

Utilising robotics and animation, combining the domestic and the industrial Save the Robots observed the constant arrival of technology presenting hybrids of the human/machine interface.

A mix of works that made a fresh and persuasive play with what constituted the desired destinations and imagined locations of contemporary travel.