Dunedin School of Art at Otago Polytechnic Public
Research Seminars, Symposia and Postgraduate Workshop Programme, Semester Two,
2013
19 Riego Street Dunedin, Lecture Theatre P152,
12.30-1.30pm on Thursdays (except where otherwise indicated)
Note: All
Research Seminars and Symposia are open to the public – all welcome, no RSVP
and no charge.
Note: In
accordance with the Otago Polytechnic MoU with local Kai Tahu runaka, we
observe tikanga in our lecture and gallery spaces and thus request all
attendees to refrain from eating and drinking (except water) and from sitting
on tables in those spaces, thank you.
Seminar: Thursday 25 July (12.30-1.30pm)
Alternative
Realities
By: Barry Cleavin
Barry Cleavin has been
involved in the making and exhibiting of prints since 1966. His prints and
drawings generally interface words, images and paradox within the
drawing, etching or digital mediums. Solo exhibitions have been
presented under such titles as The
Bitter Suites, As the Crow Flew,
and Critical Masses. Cleavin has
exhibited in many of the world's most significant Biennales – in Berlin, Krakow,
Ljubljana, Paris, Sapporo, San Francisco, Tokyo, also regularly in New
Zealand with works held in the collections of NZ public art galleries.
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This seminar will be
based around a notion concerning 'graphic literacy'. We have to learn to
read drawing. We have to learn to read the print. Cleavin will present a
series (mostly) of his own works where he will collide words with images
and images with images. The seminar will be about literal / metaphoric /
actual and virtual readings.
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Seminar: Friday 26 July (2-3pm)
What
Should Artists Read when They are Doing Research?
By: Prof. Ross Woodrow
Professor Ross Woodrow is Deputy
Director (Research and Postgraduate Studies) at the Queensland College of
Art, Griffith University in Brisbane. His general research interest in the
operation of visual images converges to a specialist focus on the themes of
nineteenth-century racial representation, physiognomy, caricature and
particularly the history and intersection of these areas. Having completed
over 20 PhD supervisions, and examined a similar number, he is one of
Australia’s most experienced academics in the field of studio research.
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Postgraduate studio programmes vary considerably
across Australia as elsewhere but there seems to be a consensus developing
that candidates begin by defining a “Research Question”. Prof. Woodrow will argue that this is a
strategy to ensure that artists rush to the library or digital databases (if
not Wikipedia) and privilege research methodologies that have little to do
with the reality of studio investigation. To ask a studio practitioner to
answer a research question is to ensure the subjugation of the studio output
to a secondary role in the research. Rather than focus on the mysteries or
metaphysics of the studio, Prof. Woodrow will answer the question in his
title with exemplary suggestions and strategies for reading.
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Seminar in 2 Parts: Thursday 1 August (12.30-1.30pm)
1. Re-turning
the Earth: Painting after a Berlin Residency
By: Michael Greaves
Michael Greaves is a Lecturer in Painting and
International Liaison for the Dunedin School of Art
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Greaves spent three months on an international residency in Berlin, Germany, in 2012. This
seminar reflects on experiences and investigations and focuses on how a sense
of being “alien” in another country inspired a new body of work for
exhibition in New Zealand.
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2. “Got
Money from the Government”: an Augmented Reality Project
By: Ted Whitaker
Ted Whitaker graduated from the Dunedin School of
Art with a BFA in 2010. He has exhibited locally at the Blue Oyster, None
Gallery, Glue Gallery, The Dunedin Fringe Festival and The Anteroom. Ted is
the curator for the DARt Collective (Dunedin Augmented Reality Art Collective),
V-Space and Black Wax Surf Culture Zine. He works extensively with surfing
communities, publishing zines and videos.
Ted is the Technician for Electronic Arts at the Dunedin School of
Art, where he also teaches Digital Literacy.
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A first major project after graduating with a BFA
was to workshop new technology with Augmented Reality tools among a group of
people. This seminar will expand on the process and challenges that came with
obtaining a Creative New Zealand Grant for the project.
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Seminar in 2 Parts: Thursday 8 August
(12.30-1.30pm)
1. Resisting
Africa: a Postcolonial Project
By: Victoria Bell
Victoria Bell is a Lecturer in
Textiles and Print at the Dunedin School of Art. She holds an MFA from Otago
Polytechnic. She was included in Ann
Packer’s 2005 award-winning publication Stitch:
New Zealand Textile Artists and received the Olivia Spencer Bower Award
in 2006.
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This project with soft sculpture textiles
installation work was the culmination of Bell’s MFA research and has recently
travelled on invitation to the Auckland Arts Festival. The seminar will focus
on studio work which engages with tropes of colonialism (e.g. via British
colonial furniture and hunting trophies) ) and how these can be subverted to
critique a colonial desire for the “other”.
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2.
“A Novel Excuse”: Being an Aratoi Fellow
at the New Pacific Studio in the Wairarapa
By: Anita DeSoto
Anita DeSoto is a Lecturer in Drawing at the Dunedin
School of Art. She has exhibited for 12 years, especially in Auckland and
Dunedin. Her painting is located within the Neo-Romantic genre and highlights
the uncanny, desire, seduction, pain and pleasure.
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This seminar reflects on experiences while being an
Aratoi Fellow on Residency in the Wairarapa during 2013. The residency culminated in an invited
exhibition at the Aratoi Public Gallery and new directions within the body of
work shown there are discussed in the seminar.
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Seminar in 2 Parts: Thursday 15 August
(12.30-1.30pm)
1.
Analogue and Dialogue Drawing
By: Kyung-Joo Kim
Kyung-Joo Kim (KJ) is currently the Asia:NZ
Foundation Artist-in-Residence at the Dunedin School of Art. She comes to us
from the Goyang Studio at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Korea.
KJ has exhibited widely in many countries and contexts and will show her new
work in the DSA Gallery during her residency.
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ThT This seminar will focus on different types of
drawing within the context of contemporary art. Drawing has come off the page
in an era of expanded fields in the arts. The seminar will focus on how the artist
responds to new opportunities.
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2.
Drawing Your Way Across New Zealand
By: Hannah Joynt
Hannah Joynt is a Lecturer in the School of Design
at Otago Polytechnic and an alumnus of the Dunedin School of Art. She won the
Christchurch Centre of Contemporary Art Anthony Harper Contemporary Art Award
in 2009.
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Hannah Joynt took some time off work to walk from
Cape Reinga in the north to Bluff in the south over five months, drawing most
days along the way. This seminar reflects on her experience, on drawing
processes and the outcomes of the project.
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Seminar Day: Friday 16 August: (9am – 5pm)
WHOLE DAY MFA SEMINARS (Separate Program TBC – 9 presenters,
including lunch) – all welcome
Organised by: Alex Kennedy
A range of seminars will present the current work of
postgraduate students at the Dunedin School of Art. Programme to be confirmed nearer the date.
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Seminar: Thursday 22 August (12.30-1.30pm)
What’s
it Doing: Recent Art Projects
By: Sean Kerr
Sean Kerr lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand,
where he is a Senior Lecturer at Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland
. He is currently undertaking further studies as a candidate for DOCFA and
has produced two books, Bruce is in the garden, so someone is in
the garden, and Pop. Both were
published by Clouds Publishing.
Selected exhibitions include: Song and Dance, The
Physics Room, Christchurch, 2012; Super music, Superdeluxe, Tokyo, 2011; Run
Artist Run, 55 Sydenham, Sydney; Donkey Pong, I.C.A.N. Sydney, 2011; Bruce
danced if Victoria sang, and Victoria sang; so Bruce danced, part II , The
Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, 2011; Bruce danced if Victoria sang, and
Victoria sang; so Bruce danced, part I ,Artspace and Gus Fisher Gallery,
Auckland, 2010; CMC, Superdeluxe, Sydney Biennale, Sydney, 2010; Ping Pong
Pop, Electrosmog, Debalie, Amsterdam, 2010;Friends Reunited Part 3,Mirror
States, Campbell- town Public Art Gallery, Sydney, 2008; Music 4 4
Blackberrys, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland, 2007; Neigh-bourhood Watch, SCAPE,
Christchurch, 2006; Music 4 100 Computers, Rhizome.org Commis- sion, New York, 2006; The Mountain, Prospect 2004,
Wellington, 2004; The Conversation, Seoul Biennale, Seoul, 2002; and The
Binney Project, Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand, 2002.
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Sean Kerr will talk about his recent art projects
that investigate the emergent area of new media technologies, incorporating
internet art, installation and sonic practices, but with a particular focus
on the expectations and effects of interactivity. This often includes
ill-mannered scenarios and 'misbehaving' machines that owe as much to
communication theory as slapstick comedy, exploring both social and
technological dynamics.
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Thursday 29 August (12.30-1.30pm)
Paradigmatic
Phases in Visual Representation
By: Prof. Estelle Maré
Professor Estelle Maré is a Research Fellow of the
University of the Free State and of Tshwane University of Technology in South
Africa. She is the editor of the South
African Journal of Art History. She was awarded the Stals Prize for her
contributions to South African art and architecture.
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Symposium Day: Friday 30 August (8.30am –
8.00pm)
WHOLE DAY Art and Money Symposium (Separate Programme TBC – lunch and
dinner included – all welcome.)
Collaboration between the Dunedin School of Art, the
Culinary Arts Programme at Otago Polytechnic and Brandbach, a division of the
University of Otago School of Business.
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This symposium will include 18 presentations by
academics and artists from New Zealand, Australia, Greece, South Africa and elsewhere. It will commence with a mihi whakatau at 8.30am and end with
an exhibition opening and an art & food extravaganza from 5.30 –
8pm.
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Thursday 5 September (12.30-1.30pm)
Prawat
Laucharoen and TR5 (Temporary Residency 5) Cork, Ireland
By: Neil Emmerson
Neil Emmerson is an Australian artist living and
working in New Zealand. He is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Print Studio at
the Dunedin School of Art at Otago Polytechnic. Noted for both his print
works and his sculptural installations, he freely combines printed images
with a wide assortment of other media (including plastics, fabrics and
recorded sound) to create complex 3 dimensional structures and site specific
installations. Through such assemblages he makes gentle play with notional
oppositions, masculine/feminine, Eastern/Western and the public and the
personal, variously exploring cultural traditions, sexual politics and
personal desires. Since 1983 he has held over 25 solo exhibitions and his
work has been collected by major Australian institutions such as the National
Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Monash University Museum
of Art and the Queensland Art Gallery.
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Neil Emmerson attended the 5th Temporary Residency
run by Prawat Lauchanoen in Cork, Ireland in June, 2013. Previous residencies
have been held in New York, Hawai and Tasmania and are facilitated by Prawat
and Anne Kirker. These residencies bring together a small number of print
practitioners from around the world to work together and investigate the
possibilities for contemporary print. Prawat is a Thai expat who has lived in
New York since the 1960s where he has been a master printer and an artist
working with print.
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Symposium Day: Tuesday 10 September (10am—4pm)
WHOLE DAY Kai Tahu Visual Culture Symposium (Separate Programme TBC – lunch
included, all welcome.)
Organised by: Simon Kaan and Pam McKinlay in
conjunction with Kai Tahu artists and academics.
A number of Kai Tahu artists and academics will
present on their own work and issues raised in this work.
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Seminar: Thursday 19 September
(12.30-1.30pm)
The Importance of Makeshift Structures: “House”
and Identity.
By: Ron Bull
Ron Bull is a Senior Lecturer in
the Treaty Education Training Unit of Staff Capability. He is from a strong ‘mutton birding’ family
and regularly makes the trip to the islands off the coast of Stewart Island
to participate in the annual harvest.
This activity provides both a practical and a theoretical basis which
helps to inform his self-identity both personally and within a larger
socio-cultural construct. His current
area of research interest is the political economy of identity politics, in
particular around landscape, food and economic practice.
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The ‘wharerau’ or round house is a
design structure commonly used in Southern Maori architecture. While they have been referred to as “makeshift
structures of little importance”, this will be explored in context, using
Claude Lévi-Strauss’ concept of “house”, the physical and metaphysical
arrangements around the social and political structures that tie an interest
group together.
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Film Screening: Thursday 26 September
(12.30-1.30pm)
Excerpts
from “Paranesia” and the “Arts of Oceania” (TBC)
By: Peter Stupples, David Green and Simon Kaan
Peter Stupples is a Senior Lecturer in Art History
& Theory at the Dunedin School of Art. David Green is a Lecturer in
Electronic Arts in the same School. They collaborated on making the film
called Paranesia, which includes
interviews with contemporary Māori artists.
They also collaborated on
creating a series of online lectures
on the Arts of Oceania. Simon Kaan
is the Kai Tahu advisor and mentor in the Dunedin School of Art.
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Seminar: Thursday 31 October
(12.30-1.30pm)
Choreographing the
Screen
By: Daniel Belton
Internationally recognised choreographer and film
maker, Daniel Belton, shows his latest work and shares insights behind their
making. This opportunity offers a rare chance to see inside the artist’s
process and talk with him directly about his work for stage and screen.
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"My work explores the dance-screen
relationship through a conceptual framework of time and space. Choreography in moving image is sculpting
with light. We are working the plastic space of the screen in a very physical
way. This film window is as much instrument as the body is instrument. Both
speak to each other in a kinetic sense. I look to produce work which
challenges the way we perceive the moving body and how we interface with
boundaries set by screens, cameras, projectors and post-production
technologies." (Daniel Belton)
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Seminar : Thursday 7 November
(12.30-1.30pm)
Report:
“place_ment” , an exhibition in Florence, Italy, October 2013
By: Johanna Zellmer
Johanna Zellmer is a Senior Lecturer in Jewellery
& Metalsmithing in the Dunedin School of Art. She exhibits at Alchemie:
The School of Contemporary Jewellery in Florence, Italy, in October and
returns to report on a collaborative studio project and publication with two
German associates.
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Johanna Zellmer’s work in place_ment explores
experiences of migration and finding oneself in a new and strange country.
She works with people from different countries who have come to New Zealand.
National signage, passports and re-placement of objects on the body deploy
jewellery and metalsmithing skills together with photography and bookbinding
in a project consisting of many dimensions.
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