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10/5/2005

Two exhibitions

The Physics Room, Christchurch

Richard Reddaway
BYO Music

Opening preview: Tuesday 10 May 2005, 5.30

In a new installation by Wellington artist Richard Reddaway, BYOMusic explores a tension between art and design. It is a sound work without a soundtrack, a slick and functional design failure - it is an experiment in art. Reddaway writes

“The work is called BYO Music. I hope people will (bring their own music), but it’s not terribly important that they do. The title is an indicator of lack, of failure, of my inability to provide a soundtrack for an installation that so clearly wants one. But, then, it was originally Product. The objects are, after all, sets of hi-fi speakers; they are, or they might have been, objects of design rather than art. They ought to be clad in lush timber veneers and to be attached to high-end audio gear, wonderful to listen to and look at, objects of beauty and desire. They really ought to be.

Instead I suspect they could be nasty: speakers flowering on brown packing taped boxes budding from the floor, cheap used electrical appliance hardware that might just end up playing ZM/FM. Not design, but art.

Our desires, the things we love, spread, proliferating as weeds. I send my disease, here, in a box.

Tell me, what are your seven all-time favourite pieces of music, your desert island discs? If, after the fall, there were to be nothing, what would you, as one of the survivors, keep?

Play them for us, as art. ”

Reddaway has exhibited consistently in New Zealand and abroad. His recent work has explored contemporary theories of chaos; of emergent and processual forms of order that mix kitsch confections with geometric complexity and pattern. Since 1996 Reddaway has been teaching design at Wellington Polytechnic, which became the Massey University College of Design, Fine Arts and Music in 2000, where he currently holds a position as lecturer in the Department of Art and Design Studies.

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Kim Paton
All We Have Is Now

Opening: Tuesday 10 May 2005, 5.30pm

The first in the VOLUME site-specific series, All We Have Is Now comments on the art gallery environment as an artificial space. Kim Paton’s five metre long industrial stage spans the width of the gallery, tracing the exact perimeters of the space. The stage, replete with specialist lighting, suggests the gallery experience could be a performative act for the viewer as the work is by nature participatory – by walking into the space the viewer is caught up in a tension between being on stage or being an onlooker. The immersive potential of the work is thwarted by its minimalist rendering, the silence and lack of fanfare both encourages the functional potential of the work through viewer participation, and objectifies the structure of the stage as an aesthetic object.

Paton is a Wellington based artist. Her first solo show was at Enjoy gallery, Wellington, in 2004, and she has shown in a number of group shows over the last year including Milky Way Bar, Hirschfeld Gallery at the City Gallery, Wellington; The Bed You Lie In, Artspace, Auckland; and Clubmeet, Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin. She is currently a member of the Board of Trustees for Enjoy gallery in Wellington.

Image: Richard Reddaway

The Physics Room
Second Floor
Old Central Post Office Building
209 Tuam Street
Christchurch
New Zealand

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