The Art & Industry Trust has announced changes for the next SCAPE Biennial in Christchurch, stating that "SCAPE 2010 will offer fewer pieces, selected against different criteria and a different process. More than two-thirds of the artworks will be from New Zealand artists, with a number of projects targeting the wider community for involvement." A curatorial group has been established, with three members: convenor Blair French, artist Julia Morison and landscape architect William Field.
Meanwhile, artists have been announced for next year's Auckland Triennial: Starkwhite's blog has the details.
That just leaves us waiting for an announcement from City Gallery about whether Prospect (the not-quite-biennial) will be taking place next year.
Showing posts with label Scape Biennial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scape Biennial. Show all posts
Friday, 23 October 2009
Monday, 22 September 2008
Blogging Scape
As part of Marnie Slater's work for the Scape Biennial, two keen beans are blogging the event.
Here's what the first few posts look like (click for full size view):
I also met some Elam students who are doing a student project where they're creating a website for their responses which will eventually be collated into a print publication. At least, that's what they said they were doing: itinerantpress.org doesn't appear to be live yet (nor itineratepress.org. or either variation ending with .nz). Any help, anyone?
Here's what the first few posts look like (click for full size view):
I also met some Elam students who are doing a student project where they're creating a website for their responses which will eventually be collated into a print publication. At least, that's what they said they were doing: itinerantpress.org doesn't appear to be live yet (nor itineratepress.org. or either variation ending with .nz). Any help, anyone?
Sailing away
Christchurch might be laid out in an impeccably logical grid pattern, but that doesn't stop me from getting horribly disoriented. As coping mechanism, I've learnt to use the the city's ample supply of pointy public sculptures as a navigational aid. The latest commission, Regan Gentry's Flour Power, proved a useful addition, erected just in time for the opening of this year's Scape Biennial.
In an event that leaned more towards the subtle than the spectacular, the work that made the strongest impression on me was James Oram's project in Cranmer Square.* His small sailing boat suspended from a crane is a lovely mix of simplicity, effort and daring - possibly too much so, as when I revisited the work yesterday morning the boat was grounded.
On my first visit to Cranmer Square I was spotted by an older lady who announced herself as the wife of the man who owns the crane, and offered to introduce Mr Crane, who was just catching up. My conversation with Mr & Mrs Crane was all that the Scape organisers could have wished for - a healthy debate over what counts as art these days.
Signs of healthy debate were also apparent in the courtyard outside the Christchurch Art Gallery, with local artist Sam Mahon's protest work.
*Unfortunately I tossed all the handouts before coming home, and the title & location of this work don't currently appear on the Scape website - apologies to Oram for the factual lapses.
In an event that leaned more towards the subtle than the spectacular, the work that made the strongest impression on me was James Oram's project in Cranmer Square.* His small sailing boat suspended from a crane is a lovely mix of simplicity, effort and daring - possibly too much so, as when I revisited the work yesterday morning the boat was grounded.
On my first visit to Cranmer Square I was spotted by an older lady who announced herself as the wife of the man who owns the crane, and offered to introduce Mr Crane, who was just catching up. My conversation with Mr & Mrs Crane was all that the Scape organisers could have wished for - a healthy debate over what counts as art these days.
Signs of healthy debate were also apparent in the courtyard outside the Christchurch Art Gallery, with local artist Sam Mahon's protest work.
*Unfortunately I tossed all the handouts before coming home, and the title & location of this work don't currently appear on the Scape website - apologies to Oram for the factual lapses.
Friday, 20 July 2007
Scape Biennial 2008 curators announced
kind of.
Christopher Moore announced the appointment of Danae Mossman (New Zealand) and Fulya Erdemci (Turkey) as the 2008 Scape Biennial curators in his Artbeat column in The Press on Wednesday. Which is correct. Not to mention great.
However, the announcement doesn't currently appear on the official Scape website, and there's no media release posted on Scoop , on the CNZ homepage or on The Big Idea. Resourcing and all other things aside - it's a web-based world these days, and publicists should be exploiting it.
Christopher Moore announced the appointment of Danae Mossman (New Zealand) and Fulya Erdemci (Turkey) as the 2008 Scape Biennial curators in his Artbeat column in The Press on Wednesday. Which is correct. Not to mention great.
However, the announcement doesn't currently appear on the official Scape website, and there's no media release posted on Scoop , on the CNZ homepage or on The Big Idea. Resourcing and all other things aside - it's a web-based world these days, and publicists should be exploiting it.
Wednesday, 13 December 2006
Museum blogs
My workplace is currently debating the idea of staff blogging - either on the official website, or having links from the official website off to blogs like this one, which have some (tenuous) connection to our working life.
Ideum - a company based on New Mexico who consult on interactive media, web development and exhibition design for cultural, educational and not-for-profit institutions and 'socially responsible' companies - did a survey in March this year of museum blogs and community sites. Using blog searches like Technorati, Ideum found a grand total of 26 blogs that are either produced by museums for the public, or are about museums.
Ideum's research report
As Ideum point out: using Technorati's stats that it searches 29.6 million blogs, museum blogs are rarer than one in a million.
The museum blog that generates the most heat in these discussions is that of the Walker Art Center. There are five staff blogging at the Walker: a new media designer, an ex-new media designer who's now freelancing, a web guy, another web guy and the New Media Director (the only woman). Interestingly, when you hit the 'Curators' blogs' link, you get a big, fat, zero. I would have thought that at least the public programmes team would be blogging. However, it is titled New Media Initiatives Blog, so fair's fair.
CORRECTION. Thanks to the Walker for getting in touch and sending me the link to their full set of blogs. Mea culpa - I got a bit lost inside the NMI blog and assumed that the right-hand nav covered all the blogs available. Check out their full offering - including curators, outside bloggers (plein air bloggers?) and artists at their main blog aggregator.
New Zealand attempts to run online forums or blogs are, sadly, a bit lame. Case in point 1: City Gallery Wellington's Prospect 2004 online forum - way too prescriptive.. Case in point 2: the Scape Biennial blog - mostly institutional messaging, has been spammed (and not cleaned up) and got bagged on Art Bash.
A few reasons why we might be even further behind than normal: our art galleries don't have tech-savvy employees or new media departments; our scene is still small enough for people to communicate in analogue ways; our art scene isn't that interested in the public; everyone is avidly reading this stuff, but too shy to post ....
Ideum - a company based on New Mexico who consult on interactive media, web development and exhibition design for cultural, educational and not-for-profit institutions and 'socially responsible' companies - did a survey in March this year of museum blogs and community sites. Using blog searches like Technorati, Ideum found a grand total of 26 blogs that are either produced by museums for the public, or are about museums.
Ideum's research report
As Ideum point out: using Technorati's stats that it searches 29.6 million blogs, museum blogs are rarer than one in a million.
The museum blog that generates the most heat in these discussions is that of the Walker Art Center. There are five staff blogging at the Walker: a new media designer, an ex-new media designer who's now freelancing, a web guy, another web guy and the New Media Director (the only woman). Interestingly, when you hit the 'Curators' blogs' link, you get a big, fat, zero. I would have thought that at least the public programmes team would be blogging. However, it is titled New Media Initiatives Blog, so fair's fair.
CORRECTION. Thanks to the Walker for getting in touch and sending me the link to their full set of blogs. Mea culpa - I got a bit lost inside the NMI blog and assumed that the right-hand nav covered all the blogs available. Check out their full offering - including curators, outside bloggers (plein air bloggers?) and artists at their main blog aggregator.
New Zealand attempts to run online forums or blogs are, sadly, a bit lame. Case in point 1: City Gallery Wellington's Prospect 2004 online forum - way too prescriptive.. Case in point 2: the Scape Biennial blog - mostly institutional messaging, has been spammed (and not cleaned up) and got bagged on Art Bash.
A few reasons why we might be even further behind than normal: our art galleries don't have tech-savvy employees or new media departments; our scene is still small enough for people to communicate in analogue ways; our art scene isn't that interested in the public; everyone is avidly reading this stuff, but too shy to post ....
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