Adam Art Gallery: The Future is Unwritten Night Talks this Thursday 13 August, 6pm

NIGHT TALKS:
Media ‘after’ modernity
Minette Hillyer speaks at the Adam Art Gallery

This Thursday
13 August 2009
6-7pm

Minette Hillyer, Lecturer in Media Studies will ask the question: What is at stake in claiming an ‘after’ to modernity, politically and historically? While modernity, or rather the myth that it has become, depends on the idea of a rupture, or radical break with the past, an experience of the modern also suggests the persistent significance of local interventions. Hillyer will use the specific context of New Zealand, founded on a process of colonisation, to consider other ways to represent narratives of historical change.

UPCOMING NIGHT TALKS
Academics from Victoria University of Wellington speak at the Adam Art Gallery Thursdays 6pm
27.08.09 Ralph Chapman and Andrew Wilks – The environment

The Future is Unwritten
11 July – 30 August 2009

Onsite: Fiona Connor, William Hsu, Daniel Malone, Kate Newby, Martyn Reynolds, Peter Trevelyan
Online: Amit Charan, Narrow Gauge, Kelvin Soh
Curated by Laura Preston

The starting point for this exhibition project was to invite nine artists, designers and writers to consider how art can engage, by means of its forms and structures, in the political realities of this moment. The artists’ projects will act as a series of proposals for embracing this time of uncertainty, where structures and systems that we have come to know are being brought into focus and re-defined. Using the gallery as a place of proposition, the works presented both in the building and online, will question the political efficacy of contemporary art by suggesting other ways to claim space and be resourceful within it. Furthermore, the exhibition will employ the university as a place for interdisciplinary thinking, to ask whether a pedagogical site can re-think art’s purpose and affect. Accompanied by a public programme of night talks, a workshop and sound event, the Adam Art Gallery will become an active site of discussion and an unfolding resource.

WEBSITE PROJECT
www.adamartgallery.org.nz/thefuture

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