FUNKY RAZORS

ArionWhere applying and enrolled students can access AUT course information, check your enrolment status, make fee payments, update your personal details and view your academic results.
AUTOnlineOnline access to course resources and learning activities through AUT's central learning management system.
UnicentralUniCentral is the AUT University Student Portal. Here you will find useful information about you as a student and quicklinks to all the important online systems you will need to use while studying at AUT University.

Learning Environment

ST PAUL St Gallery

Home > Study at AUT > Study areas > Art and Design > Learning Environment > ST PAUL St Gallery > Exhibition 2007 > FUNKY RAZORS

FUNKY RAZORS

May 3 – June 8, 2007
Opening Thursday, May 3, 5.30 pm
Blessing by Reverend Mua Strickson-Pua
With performances by Base FM DJ’s

Events:

May 12, 6 pm Edward Gains and friends
May 16, 6 pm Stroke of Happiness film premiere
May 23, 6 pm Performances by Golden Axe and Sideroom.com magazine launch, and Fleet FM presents...
May 30, 6 pm Craftwerk meet...

FUNKY RAZORS, initiated by ST PAUL ST, is curated by Ross Liew with Emma Bugden and Leonhard Emmerling. It is the first joint exhibition between ST PAUL ST and Te Tuhi, The Mark, Pakuranga, Manukau City funky razors opens at Te Tuhi on May 12, 2 pm.

FUNKY RAZORS
'Who's got the funk?' asks George Clinton - surely not a household razor.

So what's with Funky Razors then?

Funky Razors draws on the idea of funk to survey cultural production outside of the art gallery.

Curator Ross Liew says of this visual mash-up: “Funky Razors examines the cultural product and productions that come from these diverse communities, extending to elements of behavior, dress, style, attitudes, and approach. Culture is the participant as much as it is the process and product.“

The gallery space is used to uncover the richness of cultural life throughout Auckland, to make visible what is hidden, make public what is private, and to give value to what is often regarded as trash. Established collectives such as Fleet FM and the Craftwerk fair are profiled alongside little known groups such as The Shoe Kings, with one of Auckland’s largest sneaker collections, and a host of individual artists and musicians. Stretching across a multitude of cultural and social groups, the exhibition also spans two galleries in separate cities; St Paul ST in central Auckland, and Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts in Manukau City.

EVENTS:

May 12, 6 pm Edward Gains and friends