The Auckland Film Archive is pleased to present a new exhibition
curated by The Audio Foundation.
OPENING: 3 Sep, 6 pm
3rd Sep – 30th Sep
1st Floor, 300 Karangahape Road, Newton, Auckland
Hours: Mon-Fri 11am - 5pm, Sat 11am - 4pm
Seeking to underline the acoustic perspective in a predominately
visual culture, the Audio Foundation asked five artists to explore
the notion of transforming light or optical information into sound.
Included with the exhibition will be a limited edition CD showcasing
the artists.
Featuring:
Adam Willetts
Solarbotic Guitar Solo 3 was performed on the back porch by a simple,
solar powered robot rolling around on a saucer balanced on the
strings of an electric guitar plugged into a small, battery powered
amp. A human did not touch this guitar at all during the performance.
Adam Willetts is a musician and artist whose practice shifts casually
between hi-tech and handcrafted as he explores relationships and
interfaces between people, technology and popular culture. His use of
DIY electronics, radio, computers and game controllers creates
dynamic and surprising live performances that carefully balance
elements of fragile beauty with violent eruptions of static,
electromagnetic interference and feedback. He also creates sculptures
in a variety of mediums including ceramics and electronics. Adam has
been performing and exhibiting throughout New Zealand and
internationally since the late 1990s featuring at numerous festivals
and exhibitions including, Lines of Flight 2006 (Dunedin), TASIE 2006
(Beijing), S3D 2007 (Auckland), and Cloudland at ISEA 2008 (Singapore).
Joyoti Wylie
Joyoti Wylie was born in Rawene, New Zealand in 1975.
She graduated from Auckland School of Art and Auckland University of
Technology with a Bachelor of Visual Art in 1997.
Director of artist initiative and gallery 'rm 3' with 5 others from
1997-2002.
Works with photography, video, sound and performance.
Has exhibited throughout New Zealand and internationally.
Currently Head of Art Department at Michael Park Rudolf Steiner School.
Most recent performances were at Auckland City Art Gallery, St Paul
Street Gallery and the Blue Oyster Gallery performance series.
Kim Pieters in collaboration with Peter Stapleton
Kim Pieters is an abstract painter with a long history of commitment
to photography, improvisational film and music. Her work in all of
these art forms predominantly finds its point of departure in her
interest in the deictic experience the encounter of human perception
and technology with the 'real'. She engages particularly with those
realms of the real that allude to chance, the trace and notions of
the sublime. What is of especial importance to her is that moment of
space where the proximity with something in its first instance cannot
be named, coded or rationalized.
Peter Stapleton is a musician and sound artist with an extensive
involvement in New Zealand experimental music, playing and recording
with bands such as rain, flies inside the sun, sleep, a handful of
dust and currently with eye and PSN electronic. He runs the Metonymic
label which specializes in improvised music and has provided the
sound component to a number of visual installations and soundtracks
to short experimental films. Peter also curates Lines of Flight, a
festival of experimental music and film.
Stella Corkery
Stella Corkery is an artist and multi instrumentalist whose practice
extends from the mid 80's with the groups Angel Head, Queen Meanie
Puss, Fake Purr and White Saucer. She has had releases on labels such
as Xpressway, Flying Nun , Siltbreeze and CLaudia. She created two
record labels, Girl Alliance to primarily document the nascent Riot
Girl scene of the mid 90’s and a more experimental label Pink Air.
While also self releasing her own solo projects under the name
Sweetcakes she now composes and records as ARROWS with a Pink Air
12” lathe to be released shortly.
As a visual artist she has exhibited in New Zealand with Cuckoo,
Testrip, Fiatlux, Artspace and www.academy.co.nz
Andrew Clifford
Andrew Clifford is an artist, freelance writer, and works as a
curator at The University of Auckland's Centre for New Zealand Art,
Research and Discovery. His own art practice is primarily concerned
with making tangible the seemingly invisible materiality of sound,
often through the invisible presence of radio and the subliminal
effects of light. He has performed and exhibited in venues throughout
New Zealand and Australia.
He is currently a board member for the Audio Foundation and between
2003-2007 co-curated New Zealand's longest-running international
sound-art festival, Altmusic.
As a writer, he has mostly focused on art and music and has made
contributions to a long list of publications locally and abroad,
including The New Zealand Herald, NZ Listener, Pavement, White
Fungus, Real Groove, Rip It Up, Vogue Living, Art & Australia, Art
World, Eyeline, and many more. He has also provided essays for books,
gallery and academic publications, most recently contributing to the
John
Reynolds monograph Certain Words Drawn and the Aotearoa Digital Arts
Reader.
Clifford's involvement with radio is not just an experimental one.
Between 2002-2007 he produced more than 100 programmes for Radio New
Zealand, preceded by 10 years producing and presenting a variety of
programmes for 95bFM, including Art on Air. As a curator, he has
coordinated music programmes and sound-art exhibitions for a number
of galleries, including the Auckland Art Gallery, Govett-Brewster Art
Gallery and Artspace.
www.filmarchive.org.nz
www.audiofoundation.org.nz

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