Opening weekend
9-12 MARCH 2007
Don't miss daily talks by international and local artists as well as performances and a symposium over the opening weekend.
All venues will be open on Sunday 11 March.
FRIDAY 9 MARCH
SATURDAY 10 MARCH
SUNDAY 11 MARCH
MONDAY 12 MARCH
11.30am - 3pm
Eve Armstrong - Trading Table
Visitors are invited to participate in Eve Armstrong's
Trading Table. Set up in the streets of Auckland, the artist encourages you
to 'trade' an object, or service for something on the table.
Freyberg Place, off High Street
Midday
FILM SCREENING
From the Other Side by Chantal Akerman, introduced by Catherine Fowler,
Senior Lecturer in Film at the University of Otago.
Academy Cinemas
1pm
ARTIST'S TALK
Lynette Wallworth
Lynette Wallworth discusses her installation work
Evolution of
Fearlessness in turbulence and gives a brief overview of her practice
that spans video, installation, photography and short film.
Auckland Art Gallery - Main Gallery -
auditorium
Free
3pm
IN CONVERSATION
Shane Cotton and Victoria Lynn
New Zealand
artist Shane Cotton (Nga Puhi) discusses his work with Victoria Lynn,
Melbourne based international curator and guest curator for turbulence: the
3rd Auckland Triennial 2007.
Auckland Art Gallery - NEW gallery
Exhibition entry charge
3pm
ARTISTS TALK
Isaac Julien
ST PAUL ST
6pm
SYMPOSIUM
Keynote address
Gerardo Mosquera - "Walking with the Devil: Notes on Art, Culture and
Internationalisation"
Gerardo Mosquera, Cuban writer and co-curator of the 2006 Liverpool
Biennial, addresses some of the themes of turbulence.
Auckland Art Gallery - Main gallery -
Grey Gallery
$10 adult, $8 concession. Pre-bookings are essential and seating limited -
Credit card bookings can be made on 307 4540, or in person at the Gallery Shop,
or by email to:
gallery@aucklandartgallery.govt.nz
7.30pm
OPENING NIGHT
Opening at St Paul St Gallery: Isaac Julien, Julie Rrap, The Long March with Kah
Bee Chow and Daniel Malone
ST PAUL ST
11am
IN CONVERSATION
Isaac Julien & Nikos Papastergiadis
London based artist Isaac Julien discusses his practice and triennial
installation True North with Nikos
Papastergiadis, Associate Professor and Reader in the School of Culture and
Communication, University of Melbourne.
AUT lecture theatre WE230
Free
11.30am
FILM SCREENING
Muxima by Alfredo Jaar and Border
by Laura Waddington,
screened as a double feature.
Academy Cinemas
1pm - 3.30pm
SYMPOSIUM
Auckland Art Gallery - Main
Gallery - auditorium
Free
1pm
FILM SCREENING
Soundtrack to War by George Gittoes.
Academy Cinemas
4-6pm
OPENING NIGHT - ARTSPACE
Sriwhana Spong, Alexandros Georgiou, Long March Project with Kah Bee Chow and
Daniel Malone. Artists will be attending. Speeches at 4.30pm.
ARTSPACE
6pm
PERFORMANCE
The Atlas Group/Walid Raad - The Loudest Muttering Is Over: Documents from
The Atlas Group Archive
Attempting to research and document the history of contemporary Lebanon the
performances of The Atlas Group are populated by imaginary figures, archival
documents, video projections and memories of the turmoil of Lebanon.
Design Theatre, Conference Centre, The University of Auckland, 22 Symonds St
Free
- Bookings essential, ph 3074540
11am
IN CONVERSATION
r e a and Rhana Devenport
Australian artist r e a (of the Gamilaraay and Wailwan People of
Coonabarabran, New South Wales) discusses her work with Rhana Devenport,
Director, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.
Auckland Art Gallery - Main Gallery -
auditorium
Free
Midday
FILM SCREENING
Soundtrack to War by George Gittoes.
Academy Cinemas
1pm - 3.30pm
Symposium
Auckland Art Gallery - Main Gallery -
auditorium
Free
1.45pm
FILM SCREENING
From the Other Side by Chantal Akerman.
Academy Cinemas
11am
ARTIST'S TALK - Fiona Hall
Fiona Hall is a celebrated Australian artist whose work has long been
concerned with global environmental conditions, economic botany, and the
histories and futures associated with ecology and commerce. She will give an
illustrated talk on her practice and discuss her work When my boat comes in
that is part of the exhibition.
Auckland Art Gallery -
NEW Gallery
Free
12.30pm
IN CONVERSATION
Victoria Lynn, Carlos Capelán, John Pule, Gabríela Fridriksdóttir, artists from
Mirror Worlds
This diverse panel of New Zealand and international visual artists discuss the
political or cultural influences that inform their work. Speakers include
Victoria Lynn, Australian based guest curator of turbulence: the 3rd Auckland
Triennial with triennial artists Carlos Capelán (Uruguay/Sweden) and John Pule
(Niue/New Zealand) as well as AK07 exhibition artists Gabríela Fridriksdóttir
(Iceland), whose work features in Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? and
international artists from the exhibition Mirror Worlds.
The Famous Spiegeltent
- Red Square at Britomart - free
2pm
ARTIST'S TALK
Carlos Garaicoa
Cuban artist Carlos Garaicoa comments on society through architecture
working with photography, architectural models, installation and printmaking.
His new work takes the imagery from bank notes from around the world: creating a
model of the global 'market' place.
Auckland Art Gallery - NEW Gallery
Free
3pm
CURATOR'S INISIGHT
Victoria Lynn
Melbourne based international curator and guest curator for
turbulence: the 3rd Auckland Triennial, Victoria Lynn gives an
introduction to and overview of the themes and artists she has selected for the
exhibition.
Auckland Art Gallery -
Main Gallery - auditorium
Free
5.30pm
IN CONVERSATION
Victoria Lynn with Julian Hooper, Areta Wilkinson and Dr Erika Wolf
Curator Victoria Lynn in conversation with Triennial artists and Dr Erika Wolf,
Art History, University of Otago.
The Gus Fisher Gallery - Gallery 1
8pm
PERFORMANCE
The Atlas Group/Walid Raad - My Neck Is Thinner Than A Hair: A History of the
Car Bomb in the Lebanese Wars_Volume 1: January 21, 1986
Attempting to research and document the history of contemporary Lebanon the
performances of The Atlas Group are populated by imaginary figures, archival
documents, video projections and memories of the turmoil of Lebanon.
Design Theatre. Conference Centre, The University of Auckland, 22 Symonds St
Free - Bookings essential, ph 3074540
