Date: | Thursday 29 Nov, 5:30pm - 6:30pm |
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Location: | ST PAUL St Gallery 40 St Paul Street Auckland New Zealand |
Contact: | janine.randerson@aut.ac.nz |
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You're invited to the launch of AUT senior lecturer Janine Randerson’s new book, Weather as Medium: Toward a Meteorological Art.
The book launch will be accompanied by a screening of Hoop Flags (1970) by Phil Dadson and an excerpt from He Wai Mou! He Wai Mau! (2017) by Natalie Robertson. Phil and Natalie, and Marcus Williams (from F4 Collective), will kōrero about their involvement with the artworks featured in this book.
The exhibition Paul Cullen: Building Structures + curated by Marcus Moore and Allan Smith will also be showing at ST PAUL St Gallery at this time.
Weather as Medium is an exploration of artworks that use weather or atmosphere as the primary medium, creating new coalitions of collective engagement with the climate crisis. Randerson finds a precursor to today's meteorological art in 1960s artworks that were weather-driven and infused with the new sciences of chaos and indeterminacy, and she examines work from this period by artists including Hans Haacke, Fujiko Nakaya, and Aotearoa-New Zealand kinetic sculptor Len Lye.
Read a full description of the book on the MIT Press website.
Weather as Medium: Toward a Meteorological Art (MIT Press website)