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Art, space and climate change: Janine Randerson
JANINE RANDERSON interviewed by ISAAC DAVISON, 2006
Janine Randerson discusses the way her work addresses intersections between space, science and art. Interview by Isaac Davison originally published on The Big Idea in 2006. -
Sound Stories: Phil Dadson
ESSAY by PHIL DADSON, 2006
Some years back, having written a few sound stories of my own, I began collecting anecdotes from sound artists and experimental instrument builders I met with whilst travelling in the USA. Each artist would be asked to tell a yarn about a sound experience imprinted on their memory that may have influenced the direction or path they were to take as artists. -
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. -
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.