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Here you’ll find interviews with artists, reading lists and more. Contributed by Enjoy’s interns, staff, artists and friends.
New titles in Enjoy's library
Posted on October 25, 2019
When Enjoy relocated earlier this year, we established a new reading room and multi-use space, and expanded our library collections through a number of generous donations from art spaces and publishers from Aotearoa, as well as new purchases from international art publishers such as World Food Books, Printed Matter and Sternberg Press. In this post, archive and library intern Connie Brown previews some of her favourite new titles. Enjoy’s reading room is an open-access resource for students, artists, writers and the general public for reading, research and collaboration. We invite you to pop in anytime during our opening hours and read some of these new books!
Snapshot #3: On Reflection: Clare Noonan’s Pilgrim Tourist
Posted on August 30, 2019
by Imogen Simmonds
Between May 2018 and April 2019, Enjoy's former archives and library intern Imogen Simmonds catalogued and rehoused our archive, making it easier to navigate and accessible to visitors in our new reading room. In this series of blog posts, Imogen reflects on interesting moments from Enjoy’s 19-year history, and considers how our past projects have helped shape who we are today. Read Snapshot #1 here. Read Snapshot #2 here.
Snapshot #2: Neither Here Nor There: Fiona Connor‘s Inner City Real Estate 174/147
Posted on June 4, 2019
by Imogen Simmonds
Between May 2018 and April 2019, Enjoy's former archives and library intern Imogen Simmonds catalogued and rehoused our archive. In this series of blog posts, Imogen reflects on interesting moments from Enjoy’s 19-year history, and considers how our past projects have helped shape who we are today. Read Snapshot #1 here.
Snapshot #1: Artists at Work: The STAFF Project
Posted on December 20, 2018
by Imogen Simmonds
Archives and library intern Imogen Simmonds has spent the year cataloguing Enjoy’s archive. In this series of blog posts, Imogen reflects on interesting moments from Enjoy’s 18-year history, and considers how our past projects have helped shape who we are today.
Dwelling in the margins: Katie Kerr reflects on A working week
Posted on December 5, 2018
by Katie Kerr
Between 24 and 29 September 2018, designer Katie Kerr was in residence at Enjoy as part of the project A working week. In this blog, Kerr reflects on her time using the gallery as a site of development for her soon-to-be-published project Dirt with GLORIA.
Incursion
Posted on March 23, 2018
At the end of last year, we said goodbye to our long-standing photographer Shaun Matthews, who volunteered with the gallery for over two years. Shaun is an incredible photographer whose work Incursion is currently on display at Otari Wilton's Bush, the Wellington Botanic Gardens, Mount Victoria and Bush City at Te Papa.
An Interview with Bryce Galloway
Posted on March 2, 2018
by Louise Rutledge
Following the publication of his second book Incredibly Hot Sex with Hideous People: Diary Comics, our Communications and Publications Manager Louise Rutledge interviewed artist/zinemaker/lecturer/father/comic-diarist Bryce Galloway to discuss oversharing, feminism, PBRF and how a book of comic panels is edited.
An Interview with George Watson and Hamish Win
Posted on August 31, 2017
by Louise Rutledge
Since launching in 2008 as a modest 20pg, staple bound publication, Matters has established itself, intermittently, as a critical, non-commercial and independent arts journal in Aotearoa New Zealand. Following the release of Issue 7, our Communications and Publications Manager Louise spoke with editors George Watson and Hamish Win on the journal’s history, ethos, and where it might go next.
DOWN TIME: Labour politics, subjectivity and counter-production
Posted on July 18, 2017
There are many points of entry into labour politics. That is the nature of advanced capitalism. Labour has become first nature and our existence demands that we participate in its politics. Yet this ‘we’ is overwhelmingly singular. Representation is exclusive, marking difference invisible or incomprehensible through the lens of the dominant culture. The knowledge of a reduced and individualised subjectivity is being produced elsewhere, sold back to us, transformed beyond any reconcilable image of our own realities.
An Interview with Quishile Charan
Posted on July 7, 2017
by Dilohana Lekamge
Ahead of her exhibition Namesake with Salome Tanuvasa, Quishile Charan talked with artist and writer Dilohana Lekamge about her textile practice, her family, and what the response to her work has been like so far. As an emerging artist of Indo-Fijian heritage living and working in Aotearoa New Zealand, Charan uses traditional modes of textile making to reflect upon the landscape of indentured labour and its ongoing post-colonial effects on the Indo-Fijian community.
An Interview with Lana Lopesi
Posted on March 24, 2017
Lana Lopesi is a multi-disciplinary writer and artist based in Auckland. She is the Visual Arts Co-Editor of The Pantograph Punch and Contributing Editor for Design Assembly. Much of Lopesi’s work deals with themes of her Pacific heritage and the intersections of gender and ethnicity. In this interview I speak with her about the state of criticism in Aotearoa, addressing the preconceptions of who can engage in critique and the ways which we might open more constructive discourses around art.
An Interview with John Vea
Posted on March 21, 2017
by Dilohana Lekamge
Auckland-based artist John Vea’s practice is rooted in the simple act of storytelling—spending time with migrant workers and the cultural minorities of Aotearoa New Zealand, talking through their experiences and what is involved in their daily lives. The research Vea collects is almost solely conducted through talanoa: an experience of sharing ideas, stories and conversation that is almost always face-to-face. Vea translates these verbal accounts into performance art, video and sculptural installations.
TUCAT TELETHON: Watch online
Posted on March 20, 2017
While on summer residency at Enjoy from 30 January – 19 February, Riff Raff co-opted the gallery space as their production house. Their aim was to develop a new contemporary art collection of donated work from artists and the general public throughout the nation, provisionally titled the 'Trust us Contemporary Art Trust' (TUCAT).
A selection
Posted on March 11, 2017
Our wonderful design intern Ellyse Randrup recently sent through some photographs of the posters she designed for Enjoy in 2016.
AGONY ART
Posted on February 14, 2017
by Ruby Joy Eade
Unveiling the first of our TUCAT telethon acts.... AGONY ART with the straight talking but compassionate Ruby Joy Eade. Advice on your art/life/everything in between.
On gravity and fridge magnets—an afterword
Posted on February 3, 2017
by Gabrielle Amodeo
There are four known forces in the universe […] Gravity, electromagnetism, the nuclear strong force, which holds nucleii together, and the nuclear weak force, which causes radioactivity.
Summer Reading List
Posted on December 17, 2016
Summer has arrived! And what better way to spend it than catching up on everything you haven't had time to peruse during the year...
Useful Links
Posted on December 16, 2016
Following our Self-Publishing Mini-Series held in July, Rebecca Boswell left us the following list of recommended publishers, bookstores, distributors, journals and online platforms to check out, based both locally and internationally.
semi formal – the official Buy Enjoy mixtape 2016
Posted on December 15, 2016
Courtesy of DJ MR DAD aka Callum Devlin
An Interview with Ioana Gordon-Smith
Posted on December 5, 2016
by Sophie Davis
On the 7th of December Pātaka Art Museum is hosting If we never met – A wānanga on curating Indigenous art. In the lead up to this, our Manager and Curator Sophie Davis spoke with presenter and panelist Ioana Gordon-Smith about her role at Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery, her recent curatorial projects and some of the conversations that might come out of the wānanga.