Texts on and by members of The ADA Network, including reviews, interviews and essays.
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QUICK
ESSAY by MICHELE MENZIES, 2004
for the ‘Quick’ exhibition at Window and the George Fraser Gallery, Auckland
I’m particularly intrigued by work in which the communicative dimension is relayed with a degree of discretion: by which word I’m gesturing towards a quality of containedness, a sense of self-conscious restraint and subtlety, perhaps even humour. When ‘meaning’ is positioned at this kind of oblique angle to “subject“, there is space left for the un-prescribed. -
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. -
Bizarre blooms of engineering: Leigh Martin
LEIGH MARTIN inerviewed by ANDREW CLIFFORD, 2004
for LEIGH MARTIN ‘What:Noise’ at Jensen Gallery, Auckland.
But even a room full of floral prints can push the boundaries of the painterly process, leading him into the parallel realms of photography and experimental music. -
Toki: Hye Rim Lee
ESSAY by JAENINE PARKINSON, 2004
for New Zealand Art Monthly
Through her digital personification, Toki, Lee presents a discussion of the desire and desirability of cuteness evident in Asian visual culture and fashion. -
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. -
Stalling Time, Wasting Space: Michelle Menzies
ESSAY by LISA CROWLEY, 2004
for MICHELLE MENZIES ‘Passings’ exhibition, NZFA Auckland.
Michelle Menzies’ installation Passings, presents us with images taken of various spaces around Auckland. There are two photos, one of an empty carpark, which looks out over the city port, the other a disused quarry in St Johns. A third work, House Study is a video projection of an old, large villa from an inner city Auckland suburb.