RESIDENCY PROGRAM 2012/2013 at K3

Zentrum für Choreographie | Tanzplan Hamburg
Deadline: September 15, 2011

For the sixth time K3 – Zentrum für Choreographie | Tanzplan Hamburg is offering an eight-month residency to three emerging choreographers. The applicants should have already created their own artistic works. Duration of the residency is August 2012 to April 2013. The residency includes amongst others, a monthly grant, a production budget as well as a qualifying course program.
 
The call for applications is also open for international choreographers.

McNamara Gallery
7 – 25 August, 2011

This new suite of works critiques the impact of spiritual colonisation on indigenous Pacific culture and its belief systems. It follows on from the Battle of the Noble Savage, 2007 which referenced physical colonisation by European forces.

Through reference to classical paintings, and their encoded iconography, these works introduce a visual dialogue anticipating a deeper understanding.

Warwick Henderson Gallery
16 August – 3 September, 2011

A stunning new selection of work by major south Pacific artist Fatu Feu’u.

Te Tuhi- centre for the arts
27 August – 6 November 2011

Auckland-based artist Angela Tiatia considers the effect of foreign investment on a developing country by documenting the failed Sheraton Resort in Rarotonga, Cook Islands. The NZ$122 million resort development, with allegations of Italian Mafia involvement, was stalled in 1998 following the arrest of several key people involved. As guarantors, the Cook Island Government was almost financially crippled by the abandoned development – the balance totalling approximately half of the nation’s debt.

Tiatia’s documentation brings the current reality of the abandoned resort into slow focus. The incomplete luxury chalets are overcome by vegetation and standing as derelict concrete shells on an island paradise. Exhibited as a dual projection, footage of the decaying resort is coupled with a single long take of a nearby tour boat pictured floating, solitary and unused. Also exhibited, is actual framed evidence of the debt incurred including purchase agreements, bank statements and architectural plans found onsite by the artist. As a solemn memorial to the Cook Island’s tourism industry, Tiatia’s Neo-colonial Extracts also reflects the consequences of globalisation on a developing island nation.

The original art work Fata ‘O Fu’itonga by artist Filipe Tohi will be on display at The Langham for the duration of the upcoming rugby tournament.

Auckland Council’s ‘Adopt a Second Team’ festivities are off to an early start with the official launch of K’ Road’s partnership with Tonga.  Karangahape Road Business Association (KBA) will be marking its support of Tonga and its ‘Ikale Tahi team for the Rugby World Cup 2011 period with the installation and blessing of an artwork by esteemed Tongan artist Filipe Tohi.  A photographic representation of a new work by Filipe, entitled Fata ‘O Fu’itonga, meaning carrying the kings, has been rendered on a 22m long by 4m high billboard and installed on a building owned by The Langham overlooking K’ Road. 

The unveiling of the banner is the first time Filipe’s work, which takes inspiration from the traditional Pacific Island practice of binding or lalava, has been exhibited in such a format and its prominent position at the intersections of K’Road, Symonds St and Grafton Bridge means it is expected to be widely viewed by both pedestrians and motorists.

It is Filipe’s hope that the physical and metaphorical layers of the piece will reveal themselves gradually to passers-by through repeated viewings and that his contemporary employment of the historical Tongan practice of lashing, will bring people together as lalava has bound structures together in Tongan building practice over time.  Visitors, he believes, ‘will be interested to see something that’s new to them.’

‘The partnering of K’ Road with Tonga for RWC 2011, will be stimulating creative as well as business opportunities for retailers and forging new partnerships,’ says KBA Precinct Manager Barbara Holloway.  And there are plans for the link up to continue beyond the world’s most prestigious rugby tournament.

‘We want it to have a legacy.  We aim to have an annual celebration of partnership with Tonga focusing on promoting trade with the Island and maintaining this as a long-term partnership stream.’

The original art work 'Fata ‘O Fu’itonga' by artist Filipe Tohi

5 August – 3 September 2011
The Tin City Collective – Troy Ahotolu, Peter Hila, Leilani Unasa, Shona Tarai, James O’Brien, Pritika Lal, Hweiling Ow, Venus Stephens at Fresh Gallery Otara, Auckland South.

A collaborative exhibition featuring photography of people from Mangere and Otara reproduced as large-scale black and white posters. The project is part of the international Inside Out project and for the first time uses Fresh Gallery Otara’s outside walls and neighbouring roller doors! Check out more photos from SEE ME at Fresh Gallery Otara here.

Photo Credit: Marlaina Key and Simon Ashforth

Special thanks to Auckland based multimedia artist Melanie Rands for her performance.

PHOTO CREDIT: Dr Melissa Laing,  St Paul St Gallery