Texts on and by members of The ADA Network, including reviews, interviews and essays.
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Strange land singing: the video art of Bridget Reweti by Cassandra Barnett
Bridget Reweti’s whenua-based video artworks exude an everydayness so disarming it almost camouflages their wero to colonial landscape conventions (picturesque, sublime, wild, pure, natural). Almost, but not quite – because the everydayness is the wero. Reviewed by Cassandra Barnett
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PBPR
Tim Gentles introduces PBPR a “fictional public relations firm” founded in 2012 by the then Auckland-based artists Zhoe Granger and Ashlin Raymond and discusses their 100% Pure You video – completed as part of the artist duo’s Blue Oyster Summer Residency in 2013, and their 2013 video Vanitas for Window Gallery.
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Emotion: Notes on Jordana Bragg’s practice by Hana Aoake
The work of Jordana Bragg aims to reclaim the fraught space in which we mitigate the politicisation of our bodies. The body is central to her work, because even online the female body is not free or without implication.
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Desert Tomb (Atacama)
Phil Dadson’s exploration of the incredibly dry and arid region of Chile creates a beautifully hypnotic and evocative meditation on the foundational forces of nature.
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Cyposium – the book
Cyposium – the book, a compilation of the 12 hour online event presenting and discussing the history and breadth of online and networked performance edited by Annie Abrahams and Helen Varley Jamieson.
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ADA RoundTable at ISEA2013
Attendance at ISEA 2013, supported by Creative New Zealand is an output of the ADA Mesh Cities project. ADA members presented a panel titled Media Art and the Transitional City. The ISEA roundtable conversation has been worked into a paper for publication in the ISEA conference proceedings.