Media/Digital/Film

This year the Auckland Library spills out onto the Lorne Street concourse with Roving Performances and Live Entertainment!

5.45pm - *White Face Crew - *Roving Performance.

Open late at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.

6:00pm - 10:00pm - *Air New Zealand 75 Years -* Meet a couple of ‘high-flying’ characters in our exhibition: Air New Zealand 75 Years.

Te Tuhi

THE HIVE HUMS WITH MANY MINDS: PART ONE features an eclectic constellation of artworks from large immersive video installations to contemplative photographs and drawings that addresses the significance of vast global infrastructures from the context of Aotearoa.

Papakura Art Gallery

Large vertical panoramic black and white photographs of an expanse of driftwood at the Waiapu River mouth taken twenty years ago (1996) reflect upon the environmental impacts of deforestation. These are positioned ‘in conversation’ with detailed video images of the surface of the river after rain, with drifting branches passing through the current.

Auckland Art Gallery

5:00pm - 7:00pm - *Family Drop In/ Creative Learning Center - *North atrium

Auckland Art Gallery

With more than 100 photographs on display, A Beautiful Hesitation is a comprehensive presentation of 30 years of Fiona Pardington’s artistic practice. Revealing the key elements that have helped to shape her work - death, sex, flesh and the female gaze.

Objectspace

A Storage Problem is an interactive installation of ceramics created by renowened painter, designer and ceramicist Martin Poppelwell. Like other artists, Poppelwell holds pieces from many different bodies of work that he wishes to ‘realign’ into new combinations. He has created a ‘storage unit’ for his ceramics that allows visitors to consider ideas of possession and placement and simultaneously physically engage with the work.

Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery,

A Study of a Samoan Savage responds, in part, to the recent problematic treatment of Polynesian men as powerful but primitive players in rugby culture. Large format photographs and a life-sized projection are displayed alongside rare archives to critique the historical and ongoing fetishising of Samoan men as athletic specimens.  

ST PAUL Street Gallery One and Two

Pauline Rhodes’ artwork is characterised by her long-term concern with the environment. Dark Watch combines new photographic works of forms in the intertidal zone watching rising sea levels (an ongoing series since 1972), and a gallery installation that places the images within a landscape of materials and forms. 

Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery

Bepen Bhana’s large-scale diptyches situate Bollywood stars in renowned West Auckland locations. European painting conventions are integrated with filmi graphicwallahs (billboawrd hoarding painters) practices to foreground the pervasive idealisation and commercialissation of landscape and imagery. Named in te reo Māori and Hindi, the diptychs interrogate the issues of ownership, identity, profiteering, and belonging embedded in representations of a place.

ST PAUL Street Gallery One and Two

Referencing Leach’s time as artist in residence in Mandurah, Western Australia in 2014, this project follows and extends a curious historical narrative between a rock, a meteor and a missing plaque in small town Western Australia. 

Silo 6, Silo Park

Vibrant and fully immersive, Full Moon Kingdom reveals the secret and magical nightlife of Auckland Zoo. Taking the audience to a world of infinite beauty that unfolds unnoticed every night in our city, Full Moon Kingdom features not only full-moon photography but poetry, lighting and an enchanting nocturnal soundscape. 

The Pah Homestead

*Scape by Hoseph Michael + Michael Hodgson, Olivier Jean, Jan Baxter, Puck Murphy*

Mangere Arts Centre – Ngā Tohu o Uenuku

Angela Tiatia’s Survey / [fā’aliga] is the first solo exhibition in Māngere for this emerging video/performance artist. Currently residing in Sydney, Australia, Tiatia was born and raised in Ōtara, Auckland. This exhibition will survey her video works from 2008 to the present. Tiatia’s work discusses the impact of globalization on the Pacific as well as stereotypes of the Other and the use and misuse of femininity in mass consumer culture. 

Artspace

In 1986 gay sex was decriminalized in Aotearoa. The Bill marks the 30th anniversary of the Homosexual Law Reform Bill. The group exhibition brings together artists who were born into a legal system where LGBT identities were illegitimate, and who, throughout their careers have witnessed changes that are part of an on-going global transformation. The Bill sets out to generate new perspectives on the history of queer identity in Aotearoa.

ST PAUL Street Gallery Three

Seven contemporary artists* from Australia and New Zealand have developed new works after collaborating on a research project investigating the practice of Fijian female tattooing. Through a shared online forum and examination of Fijian collections within Museums in Australia, Fiji and New Zealand, the Artists have generated an Indigenous Research archive driven by personal, artistic and relational connections.

The Pah Homestead

Tracing nearly twenty-five years of living in Hong Kong,香 HONG 港 KONG 嗓 SONG presents the poetry, poverty, and generosity of Hong Kong, drawing attention to Madeleine Slavick’s multi-faceted practice as writer and photographer, artist and activist. The work shows the many natures of Hong Kong – the natural beauty and the pollution, the rural and the urban, insects and high-rises, grit and wealth.  

Digital Art Live, Level 2, Aotea Centre

French artists, Guillaumit and Yann Van der Cruyssen have created a new digital playground -

Auckland Libraries - Lorne Street

Student artists, writers, speakers, thinkers and makers from the University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts invite you to become immersed in dorf – a community focused exhibition transforming Lorne Street into a forest full of radical dialogue, unconventional and interactive installations and social-based practices.

Kerr Street Art Space

Depot Artspace presents - Uniform !No Venues!  Takarunga:  an audio /visual environment of live-lava film and sound, looking out from the Kerr Street Artspace on the slopes of Takarunga (Mt Victoria).

New Zealand Herald Festival Garden (Aotea Square)

A unique experience where your photo becomes a little silhouette - A moment in time. Get creative and let your shadow speak at this pocket printer interactive event. Appear with a favourite object, person or just you –side on, upside down or just being...... Take your cameo home and also leave your shape on the wall with the other inhabitants and objects of our Silhouette City.

Audio Foundation

Longtime and prolific participant in the Wellington music scene, Gerard Crewdson presents an exhibition of works on Paper and Sound at the Audio Foundation for the first time.

Scarecrow

A visual, auditary and taste experience -  Floral artistery and film footage of meadow scenes transforms Scarecrow into a whimsical meadow for the night. A place to graze on your White Night adventure.

Trish Clarke Gallery

Kade’s Cognition | Tim Gruchy performs live sound and vision - A live set of original sound and vision, utilising sensors and interfaces, creates a striking subtly complex vista. Ambient dub soundscapes integrate to vision traversing artificial life, biomorphology and mathematical visualization.

Pierre Peeters Gallery

An exhibition bridging the borders that we set up between each other as individuals as well as nations - across North, South, East and Western.

Canada Lane

Canapé Canopy is an outdoor art project space based in Auckland, New Zealand. Initiated and co-organised by Daphne Simons and Mark O'Donnell, it focuses on showing temporary and experimental art practises from both local and international artists. Projects run for approximately 2 weeks.

Stirlings Garden Centre

A celebration of the garden suburb era, this living installation showcases historic images of Greenwoods Corner in a white themed garden.  

Kismet café

Frolian Travels is an interactive experience for all ages. Learn about and create your own Frolian creature and see our own Frolian character being 3D printed live!

The heart of the Remuera shopping centre

Wolf Boy and Parade is a series of hand stitched soft sculptures. The work uses humour and melancholy to present issues relevant to daily life regarding human/animal relations.

in Collaboration with Gerald Friedrich Spelsberg

As part of THE BILL programme Artspace presents two forms of performance by Berlin based, American artist and musician Black Cracker, in collaboration with Berlin based art director/designer Gerald Friedrich Spelsberg (GFS). Rather than any form of image making or a visual reference, in this project Artspace develops a sound based production that aims to extend our imagination and rediscover our landscape through another contemporary voice. Artspace is interested in not only connecting with another potential audience, but also utilises a new form of event that we have not considered yet; a hip hop gig. 

Simply Wonderful Clothes

Two girls who are from other space want to discover resources from the earth. Unfortunately, the earth has been severely polluted that they only can find some rubbish.

Kismet café

Plus is a photo series of five surreal self-portraits, displayed in custom made light boxes. The images show different conceptual iterations of the artist’s reflection on her identity.

Media Design School is Asia Pacific’s No.1 digital design school and ranked among the top 3 schools to provide VFX/Animation and Game Development qualifications worldwide by the CG Student Awards.

Mr Barber

Photo Exhibition of Barber Skills.

Neck of the Woods

A collection of 10 short films by some of New Zealand’s most creative filmmakers, set on New Zealand’s most iconic street.

Roving through the Remuera precinct

Every Dubtext analogue electronica performance is a set of unique compositions and styles ranging from ambient dub to psychedelic techno. 

The heart of the Remuera shopping centre

After debuting at 'The Experiment' last year, DJ Jimmy Olsen is back to mix another vinyl only soundtrack to a silver screen classic.  Cinema taking a whole new spin.

Audio Foundation

Christoph el’ Truento, Petrichor, & Julien Dyne present; Live Electronics at Audio Foundation. A showcase of analogue and digital electronic performance.

Hearing Life Window

Janina Gaudin and Dominika Marcisz are the boutique design studio, Pepperbot Studios. This exhibition is a collection of animations and cinemagraphs featuring their illustration, design and animation work.

Viewing from Takutai Square (The Grass), Britomart

Without number there is nothing. Maths underlies everything. Tim spreads a little light-ly on (onto the Australis Hous Building Façade, Galway Street side), the ever-changing face of Britomart.