PAST EXHIBITIONS
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Karin van Roosmalen
30 Jul – 16 Aug 2003
Karin van Roosmalen's work was about space and spaces—how we inhabit our built environments, about the effects of our mobile lives on those environments and about the tension between functioning effectively in the world with minimal means and the compulsion to accumulate stuff.
Enjoy Presents: High Street Project
Ciaran Begley, Eugene Hansen, John Lake, Louise Tulett, Matt Couper, Mike Heynes, Ryan Chadfield, Stephen Clover, Tao Wells
29 Jul – 16 Aug 2003
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.
Reaching Out, Calling New Age Power
9 Jul – 26 Jul 2003
As part of the series of New Zealand artist-run-space gallery exchanges, The High Street Project presented Reaching Out, Calling New Age Power.
Interference
Kaleb Bennett
18 Jun – 5 Jul 2003
An installation using interactive sound based objects, Interference presented the challenge inherent in sharing information.
Home Helper
Mark Harvey
28 May – 14 Jun 2003
Paying dual homage to the kiwi handy man and reality T.V., Harvey performed for us his own home renovation show.
Dial M For Murder
Kristin Perrett
7 May – 24 May 2003
Certain cult films and their obsession with murder form a starting point for Auckland artist Kristin Perrett.
CRAFT DOESN'T PAY
16 Apr – 3 May 2003
A Crafty Novella
exquisite craft: six pieces, six processes, six people, six weeks
Enjoy Toast
Andrew Clifford
26 Mar – 12 Apr 2003
Six toasters and six bread plates borrowed from New Zealand personalities were the focus of the exhibition.
AN EYE FOR AN EYE
5 Mar – 22 Mar 2003
An eye for an eye: but whose eye was first?
Siv B. Fjærestad
Siv B. Fjærestad
1 Jan – 12 Feb 2003
Summer Residency #6
Fjærestad's work references everyday life, and her sensitivity to social and cultural interactions, played out through the materials and techniques she uses. In a previous exhibition she wowed audiences by crocheting fuse wire into the forms of 1980's and 1990's middle class, domestic appliances.
Ex Number 9
11 Dec – 20 Dec 2002
Lissa Mitchell scrutinised the Number Nine series as a sample of contemporary curatorial practice.
Festiva of Enjoyment
Richard Whyte, The Now Romantics
20 Nov – 7 Dec 2002
Art, the closest function. Our closest concept to serendipity and truth, her lover, artifice. Art is our last ditch attempt at understanding perfection (cease the AESTHETIC) at battle with the great paradox, both called by name ARTIFICE. All construction.
Projections
Andi Chapelle, Devon Damonte, Jason O'Dea, Nikki Deeley, Richard Whyte, Rick Jensen, Tim Wyborn
30 Oct – 16 Nov 2002
Projections was an exhibition involving nine artists, working with slide projectors as their medium.
Sleep Over
26 Oct – 26 Oct 2002
Saturday Night Performance Art Night
Rule: Once your mattress is installed you are able to invite, set up, bring, do, sleep when you want. Once your mattress is installed.
Curative Acts
9 Oct – 26 Oct 2002
To have boundaries, one must create boundaries.
Satellite City
Dominic Forde, Douglas Kelaher, Rachel Brunton
17 Sep – 5 Oct 2002
Exploring urban landscapes and their populace is the subject of this exhibition curated by Rosemary Ford of the Physics Room (Christchurch). Although at first the work by artists Douglas Kelaher, Dominic Forde and Rachel Brunton may seem disparate, on closer inspection they work well together. Each piece suggests a different kind of society, fantastical, contemporaneous or futuristic, breaking away from the overwhelming dominance of the rural landscape in New Zealand art practice.
I AM: Individual Artifacts Museum
Clem Devine
28 Aug – 14 Sep 2002
What is identity? How is it manipulated and formed within the construct of Post-Modern culture?
SPAT
Clemency Boyce, Regan Gentry
7 Aug – 24 Aug 2002
Two people collaborating for the first time will focus SPAT on wads - in the form of used chewing gum.
Comfort Blanket
Teresa Andrew
17 Jul – 3 Aug 2002
Teresa Andrew is an installation/performance artist who works with narratives, using the body, whether present or absent, as the locus of behavior.
Rex Republica
Eugene Hansen
26 Jun – 13 Jul 2002
Political spoof involving the intro to the television series Monkey. In Rex Republica (Rex's Cybernautic Dreamscape, releases candidate nine) Tripitaka is Helen Clark, Pigsy is Winston Peters, Sandy is John Campbell (Jonjon), and Monkey is Busta Rhymes.