Main Gallery: Sunday October 29, 1pm
Performance Project: Joyoti Wylie
Multimedia artist Joyoti Wylie uses poetry and voice to explore multiple
identities. Like a bird that hears a machine and mimics it, she copies voices
of filmic icons with those overheard in private conversations, incorporating
her own ruminations and delusional night voices. In response to the Main
Gallery's imminent closure for redevelopment, this performance reflects on the
constantly changing faces of galleries.
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MEDIA RELEASE 26 October 2006
Intermedia artist Joyoti Wylie performs at Auckland Art Gallery this Sunday at
1pm. Her performance is part of the exhibition 5 4 3 2 1: Auckland Artist
Projects, which counts down to the gallery's landmark $90 million restoration
and expansion.
Wylie uses her voice to play out multiple characters. She samples segments of
poems and writings, layered with sound from guitars and household objects to
create a jarring anti-narrative quality.
"Like a bird that hears a machine and mimics it, I copy voices of filmic icons
and those overheard in private conversations," she says. Accompanied by live
video and sound projections, the end result is "a filmic landscape steeped in
sorrow, vanity and desire".
The 31-year-old co-founded the artist run space rm3, now rm103, after
graduating from AUT in 1997.
She has recorded five CDs including No Nipples 1998, Pussyphilosopher 1999,
Some Kind of Horror 2000 and Ancient Pain-Hate Joy Machine 2002, and has
exhibited in Australasia, England, Ireland, Holland, Germany and Taiwan.
"Joyoti Wylie's charming and disarming songs are recited in myriad voices,
across 1950s telephone wires, like voices from another life and another time.
Infused with sentimental and candid quotations her poetic narratives and
musical compositions are laced with alternately playful and disturbing
overtones." - Hannah Scott, Artspace New Artists 2002
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And another one for your diary.
Main Gallery: Saturday November 25, 3pm
Performance Project: The Dominion Centenary Concert Band
Formed in 1907 to celebrate New Zealand's dominion status and now gearing up
for next year's centenary, the Dominion Centenary Concert Band are without
doubt New Zealand's longest running ensemble and are nearly as old as the
Auckland Art Gallery itself. A favourite for civic functions, they will give
the gallery a rousing send-off with their distinctive brand of improvised music.
Regards,
Andrew
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