Night Talks At Adam Art Gallery

Night Talks At Adam Art Gallery

NIGHT TALKS:
The resource of art and the environment

Ralph Chapman and Andrew Wilks speak at the Adam Art Gallery

This Thursday
27 August 2009
6-7pm

Ralph Chapman, Director of Postgraduate Environmental Studies, and Andrew Wilks, Environmental Manager of Facilities Management at Victoria University of Wellington will discuss how their research and work on energy efficiency, renewable energy and other sustainability actions is both aligned with, and addresses different questions from, the intentions of contemporary art. In keeping with the premise of the exhibition project, this talk will consider how the implementation of their work looks to various timeframes – including a long future that we may not get to see.

LAST WEEK OF
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, question the political efficacy of contemporary art by suggesting other ways to claim space and be resourceful within it. Furthermore, the exhibition has employed 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 talks and a curatorial workshop, the Adam Art Gallery has become an active site of discussion and an unfolding resource.

WEBSITE PROJECT
www.adamartgallery.org.nz/thefuture
ends

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