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Phil of the Antarctic: Phil Dadson
ESSAY by BRIDIE LONIE, 2004.
for The New Zealand Listener
Collectively called Polar Projects, Dadson’s suite of works was built from footage recorded over a single week of camping with science teams in the Taylor and Garwood Dry Valleys. It takes seriously the job of providing information, simulation and analysis. -
Quick Fix
ESSAY and PHOTOGRAPHS by MARK HARVEY, 2004
for the ‘QUICK’ exhibition at Window and George Fraser Gallery, Auckland
Perhaps it is tiring to think of how fast we try to live? It seems normal for us to feel that we didn’t get what we planned done, because there’s too much to do. -
Ape Living: Annie Bradley & Jamie Kydd
ESSAY and PHOTOGRAPHS by MICHELLE MENZIES, 2004
for ANNIE BRADLEY and JAMIE KIDD ‘Ape Living’ exhibition at Window, Auckland
Accepting that ’a poem, even though it is composed in the language of information, is not used in the language game of giving information’, what we need is reading which does not attempt to codify meaning, but acknowledges (happily) its insufficiency to embody a text. -
The Electric Playground
ESSAY by STELLA BRENNAN, 2003
for ‘Arcadia: The Other Life of Video Games’ curated by Hanna Scott, Govett Brewster Art Gallery New Plymouth.
The Arcades in question aren’t distant tree-filled realms but those garishly-carpeted, dimly-lit caverns crammed with everything from Dance Dance Revolution to Mortal Kombat.