Dear Friends
Thursday 30th October at 5.30pm, you are warmly invited to attend the
opening of Sriwhana Spong's installation Myth and Practice.
Featuring work developed during a recent New York residence, Myth and
Practice includes video, film and sound.
Faced with the impossibility of documenting the mythic proportions of
the infamous Chelsea hotel, a cartridge of black and white Super 8
film was hand wound as the artist roamed the corridors. Losing the
means of focusing allowed the air, or atmosphere, of this
mythologised building to touch the actual film. What is recorded is
the dust of the machines used in the processing and transfer of this
film. Chelsea Hotel plays with the idea of documentation as a means
of capturing something in order to name it and understand it, but in
the end getting no closer to it.
The Birds is a sound work, created through the direct translation of
an image of birds sitting on a telephone wire into a 21-second piano
piece. It is scored by Godfrey de Grut, and interpreted visually by
Kelvin Soh and Simon Oosterdijk of The Wilderness. The Birds takes a
recorded moment and creates a piece involving collaboration, direct
translation and interpretation.
Room 424 is a series of three photographs taken of what is,
supposedly, Leonard Cohen’s old residence at the Chelsea Hotel.
Although the three images show the same door, what they describe is a
process of capture and framing: with flash/without flash, long shot/
close-up.
PLUS: Tune in to National Radio this Saturday morning at 9:45am to
hear former Dominion Post arts writer Mark Amery discuss art
criticism with Kim Hill.
Sriwhana Spong
Myth and Practice
Opening Thursday 5.30pm, 30th October
New Zealand Film Archive, Wellington

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