*Please join us at 5:30pm this Friday 25th at projectspace B431, Elam School of Fine Arts to celebrate the closing of the exhibition 'CAUCASIA' and launch of the free digital exhibition catalogue, with performances by Radio Cegeste, Sam Hamilton & DJ Tom Henry.*
A big thank you to Kirin Beer for their support. These prolific sound artists will perform live works in response to Emil McAvoy's 'CAUCASIA: Selling New Zealand at the 1970 Japan World Expo,' a suite of digitally restored New Zealand Government Publicity photographs documenting the New Zealand Pavilion, alongside a projection of the National Film Unit documentary 'This is Expo.' Sam Hamilton will perform 'Easy Listening Postcards of New Zealand Volcanoes & Other Auto-Tuned Eruptions,' a live sound souvenir processing field recordings of New Zealand volcanic regions put to disco beats. Think Antipodean musique concrete meets Arthur Russell. Sam Hamilton is a prolific Auckland based artist, musician, interdisciplinary collaborator, event organiser and audiovisual festival programmer: http://www.myspace.com/samhamilton0 *http://sounz.org.nz/contributor/composer/1688*<http://sounz.org.nz/contributor/composer/1688> Sally Ann McIntyre AKA Radio Cegeste will perform 'more scenic aviaries of the radio: a collection for the birds of CAUCASIA,' a live mini-FM performance focusing around the cultural place of native New Zealand birds, the bounded transmission space of micro radio and its relation to the territorialisation of birdsong, and the tension between the archival/museological nature of the sonic object and the soundmarks of the living world. McIntyre's performance, part of an ongoing series of performances/programmes focused around such themes, collectively entitled 'Radio d’Oiseaux,' utilises historic, commercially available field recordings in multiple sound formats from the New Zealand radiophonic archives, re-placing them in live radiophonic space alongside contemporary field recordings and other birdsong related popular-cultural and touristic sonic ephemera. In particular it draws from respected National Publicity Studios photographer Kenneth and wife Jean Bigwood's c.1960s recordings of native birds, and references the recordings of endemic avian species heard through speakers within the fabricated 'bush walk' in the 1970 New Zealand Pavilion. It also draws from recordings from the archives of veteran New Zealand Wildlife Service sound recordist John Kendrick, (selected by McIntyre and McAvoy from National Library collections), as well as location recordings taken by McIntyre in the controlled environments of Orokonui Ecosanctuary near Dunedin and the extinct endemic bird collections of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington. Guests are invited to bring FM friendly radio receivers to augment their listening experience. Radio Cegeste is a transmission art project by Sally Ann McIntyre, an independent writer, curator and broadcaster currently based in Dunedin: http://www.myspace.com/radiocegeste http://radiocegeste.blogspot.com/ Also featuring selections from DJ Tom Henry, who will draw inspiration from the cosmopolitan Expo '70 bar scenes, and describes his set as “a nationalist cocktail party hijacked by lysergic revolutionaries.” Tom Henry is an Auckland based artist, regular DJ and a student at the Elam School of Fine Arts. Tom will also be DJing at Golden Dawn from 8-11pm: http://tomhenryart.blogspot.com/ *CAUCASIA closing celebration* 5:30-7pm Friday 25 February projectspace B431 Ground Floor Main Fine Arts Building Elam School of Fine Arts University of Auckland 20 Whitaker Place *www.projectspaceb431.auckland.ac.nz*<http://www.projectspaceb431.auckland.ac.nz/> *CAUCASIA: Selling New Zealand at the 1970 Japan World Expo* Emil McAvoy projectspace B431 24-26 February, 11am-4pm or by appt. ph +64 27 425 6498 www.emilmcavoy.com Free digital exhibition catalogue available at *www.emilmcavoy.com*<http://www.emilmcavoy.com/> from 25 February Media and enquiries about the exhibition or closing event contact * [email protected]* <[email protected]> CAUCASIA is an outcome of a University of Auckland 2010-11 Summer Research Scholarship and is supported by Archives New Zealand and the National Library.
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