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10/7/2009

The Future is Unwritten

Adam Art Gallery, Wellington

Onsite: Fiona Connor, William Hsu, Daniel Malone, Kate Newby,
Martyn Reynolds, Peter Trevelyan
Online: Amit Charan, Narrow Gauge, Kelvin Soh

Curated by Laura Preston

This exhibition project doesn't really have much to do with imagining the future. Although time is being used as a medium to circumvent, re-think, and problematise historical structures and narratives, at base the exhibition claims a space for dialogue to begin. The exhibition has become a series of artist's projects, each modelling a way through the current milieu, where systems that we have come to know are being brought into focus and re-defined. Though these artists don't presume to present definitive prognoses for these times, anarchic, utopian or otherwise, but instead embrace irresolution as both a state of grace and a political act.

The nine artists' projects, both onsite and online, consider the university gallery and its online resource to be a useful site to reflect on the shape of power. They make visible the perfomativity latent within the institution, creating new situations that are purposeful because they are propositional. Gestural in intent, the works are actions that either exist as duration or will be revealed later, acknowledging that to politicise deeply you have to historicise, and that true power is invisible.

The Future is Unwritten asks whether a pedagogical site can re-think art's affect, taking advantage of the university as a place for interdisciplinary thinking. Accompanied by a public programme of talks, a workshop and sound event, the Adam Art Gallery will become an active site for discussion and an unfolding resource.

NIGHT TALKS
Academics from Victoria University of Wellington speak at the Adam Art Gallery
Thursdays 6pm
16.07.09 Raymond Spiteri - Art History and the political
30.07.09 Paul James - Architecture and latency
13.08.09 Minette Hillyer - Media after modernity
27.08.09 Ralph Chapman and Andrew Wilks – The environment and energy use

WORKSHOP
06.08.09
Discussion on contemporary curatorial practice in New Zealand

SOUNDCHECK
04.09.09
Deep Listening Performance Series
Sam Hamilton and Eve Gordon - Parasitic Fantasy Band
Live experiential expanded cinema, sound and celluloid
Adam Art Gallery
8pm

Further information: Laura Preston. Email: laura.preston@vuw.ac.nz Phone: +64 4 4635229

Opening
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Adam Art Gallery
Victoria University of Wellington
Gate 3, Kelburn Parade PO Box 600, Wellington 6140 New Zealand
Tuesday – Sunday, 11am - 5pm
FREE ENTRY

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