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radio cegeste / lee noyes 'to orient themselves with coastlines' released on idealstate recordings

2012-01-11T23:56:00.039+13:00

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'a private swamp / was where this tree grew feathers once' : a radio memorial in four movements

2012-01-04T13:19:00.097+13:00

"It seems to me then as if all the moments of our life occupy the same space, as if future events already existed and were only waiting for us to find our way to them at last, just as when we have accepted an invitation we duly arrive in a certain house at a given time.”- W. G. Sebald, Austerlitz"In my beginning is my end. In succession / Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, / Are removed

"dear friends who have died are all talking to me tonight / all at once..." : a species of spaces transmission at rice & beans

2011-11-28T17:20:00.016+13:00

continuing the 'species of spaces' series of programmes which spatially sonifies gallery spaces via small-scale transmission, radio cegeste set up a radio show after midnight in the empty room of artist run space rice & beans, located in inner city dunedin and run throughout 2011 by a small collective, on the final day of the space's lease by its current occupiers, a few days after the final show

'Garden Aria / a Library for the Birds of Ōtepoti' on TIK (TimeInventorsKabinet) ArtRadio, Bratislava, Slovakia

2011-09-12T04:50:00.104+12:00

-----“The air itself is one vast library, on whose pages are for ever written all that man has ever said or woman whispered. There, in their mutable but unerring characters, mixed with the earliest, as well as with the latest sighs of mortality, stand for ever recorded, vows unredeemed, promises unfulfilled, perpetuating in the united movements of each particle, the testimony of man's changeful

'transfiguration for winter light and folded time (ground wave, sky wave)' broadcast on Radio Real, Lisbon

2011-07-27T00:11:00.021+12:00

a further development of a recent site-specific transmission performance, transfiguration for winter light and folded time (ground wave, sky wave) was aired on Sunday, 24 July, 16:00 – 17:00pm Portugese time, within the programming of Radio Real, an experimental radio project exploring various themes and strategies around the concept of "Neighbourhood radio", located in Rua do Poço dos Negros

Transmission Arts : Artists & Airwaves, edited by Galen Joseph-Hunter of free103point9, published by PAJ

2011-07-26T18:32:00.011+12:00

Radio Cegeste's series of programmes that listens to the links between radio and birdsong, Radio d'Oiseaux, has been included as one of 150 historic and contemporary artist projects in the book Transmission Arts : Artists & Airwaves edited by Galen Joseph-Hunter with Penny Duff and Maria Papadomanolaki, of New York state Transmission Arts organisation free103point9. As the editors put it :"

'transfiguration for winter light and folded time' narrowcast at Rice & Beans

2011-05-30T21:50:00.050+12:00

"....my body [for example] lives in as many spaces as the society, the group or the collectivity have formed; the Euclidian house, the street and its network, the open and closed garden, the church or the enclosed spaces of the sacred, the school and its spatial varieties containing fixed points, and the complex ensemble of flow-charts, those of language, of the factory, of the family of the

'Species of Spaces 0:02 : soundtracks for the city/Melbourne tram conglomerate' on Frequency Oz, hosted by NAISA radio for the Deep Wireless Festival

2011-05-22T23:49:00.028+12:00

my piece Species of Spaces 0:02 – soundtracks for the city / Melbourne tram conglomerate has been selected for inclusion in Frequency Oz, a thematic exhibition of sonic media art and radio art by Australian artists, part of a programme presented and produced by Yanna Black, curated by Colin Black, and hosted by NAISA (New Adventures in Sound Art) radio for the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio &

David Clegg's 'the miserable idea of measurement (refrain)', St Kevin's Arcade, Auckland

2011-05-15T10:31:00.008+12:00

a site-specific mini FM transmission of a radio work by David Clegg, re-siting the Artspace project The Miserable Idea of Measurement for the airwaves.originally commissioned as a program for the Radia network and broadcast internationally by 19 independent radio stations.narrowcast by Radio Cegeste on Saturday 14/5/11 to St. Kevin's Arcade, 177 Karangahape Road, Auckland. Transmission starting

Sounds in Between, SIB Radio Gowanus

2011-04-28T20:24:00.005+12:00

for most of 2011 I have been a presenter of the programme Avant Gardening, which runs from 10:30-12:30 every Sunday on Radio One 91FM, Dunedin, directly after radia at 10pm. On the 24th April I played the first of two 2-hour broadcasts of SiB Radio Gowanus, a four hour edit of a multi-artist narrowcast radio installation project curated by Maria Papadomanolaki, initially sited in Cabinet

how to explain radio to a dead huia

2011-02-18T01:48:00.058+13:00

“This is where we must begin; with the magical power of replication, the image affecting what it is an image of, wherein the representation shares in or takes power from the represented — testimony to the power of the mimetic faculty through whose awakening we might not so much understand that shadow science known as magic… but see anew the spell of the natural where the reproduction of life

...performing with Lee Noyes at Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 28/1

2011-02-01T22:50:00.018+13:00

"Lee Noyes and Sally Ann McIntyre performed first. Sally had amassed a curious collection of items to toy with – and in a speculative facebook post early that day she mused over the outcomes of a meeting between “ a mini-FM transmitter, a bakelite valve radio, a homemade kitset theremin, six identical pocket size transistors, a 78rpm record from the 1940s featuring "master radio canaries" (a gift

in the mansion of quiet light

2010-11-22T00:09:00.011+13:00

[richard neave & sally ann mcintyre][recorded in rooms in bangkok & wellington, 2010.][acoustic guitar by richard.][voice, violin, editing & images by sally.][r.i.p. richard, 1975 - 2010][.]

'sound, light, locality : the frederick street sound and light exploration society', radia show #294

2010-11-15T15:42:00.006+13:00

-----my radio documentary about the festival Fredstock, which was submitted as show #294 for season 24 of broadcasts from the radia network, celebrated the Frederick Street Sound and Light Exploration Society's annual gathering of audio experimenters in appropriately non-linear manner.The show, complete with audio, is archived on the radia site here.------sound, light, locality : the frederick

visible city #5 : Radio Cegeste on O’Tomorrow, Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne

2010-10-29T23:58:00.010+13:00

Newcastle-based organisational and musical force Chris Hearn, aka Alps, briefly alighting at None Studios in Dunedin while on his New Zealand tour with Ray Raposa, aka Castanets, from Portland, Oregon, pleasantly coincided his stay with my arrival in the city. As it eventuated, no local support act had been organised for these fine gentlemen's southernmost NZ gig.

...installation at 'Ringworm' open home Christmas show, Wellington

2009-12-19T22:05:00.012+13:00

Wellington based curator Melanie Oliver organised a small group show in her house, a big multi-person flat on a hill whose windows overlook the sea and the wide horizon, which are both such iconic features of that cityscape, as an open home Christmas exhibition. When radio cegeste was invited to participate, I gathered some location recordings from around the long meandering stretch of the

'the desert Homeric'*

2009-12-09T23:51:00.005+13:00

in arid cities we have read as syntax flooded streets, marked tides in museums where classical shadowsbuild birds of dust on their shoulders:the old tongue sleep, forgotten, in patches, but still the thirst: the sky, a desert of tiredness, without imageto drink, but almostthe memory of rain, half-tasted, like jealousy in the back of the throat; the lake, maybe eroded, or a salt, unfedexpanse, a

ship/person/ship

2009-11-05T17:42:00.018+13:00

ship/person/ship, my occasional DJ duo with Matthew Steindl, a musician who works as the music librarian at Wellington's Alexander Turnbull Library, has a focus on 45s and 78s, pre-1960s jazz, op shop found vinyl, and overlooked New Zealand labels such as Kiwi Records.s/p/s happens at a tiny, intimately scaled bar in central Wellington, which has a 50s theme and seems to belong to a different

'Lines of Flight : a Sonic Community', inaugural NZ transmission to the Radia network, broadcast live at Enjoy gallery, Wellington

2009-09-06T20:03:00.015+12:00

To celebrate the transmission of the initial NZ contribution to the international Radia radio art network, Enjoy Gallery kindly agreed to host a live Radio Cegeste MiniFM simulcast of the programme, to its gallery space in central Wellington. This transmission, a documentary on the Lines of Flight festival, was narrowcast as it went to air at 9:30pm on Radio One 91FM in Dunedin, on the Radia

"the bird sings with its fingers" : Alphaville and Orphee

2009-07-11T19:38:00.033+12:00

Chris Darke's 2005 book on Jean Luc Godard's 1965 film Alphaville contains some great lines on the relationship of Godard's sci-fi noir masterpiece to Cocteau's own prior re-contextualisation of the Orpheus myth, and on the Orphic poetics of the filmic / radio relationship.from the chapter entitled Orpheus unbound :---"In Alphaville, Orpheus, bard of Thrace, the poet and singer of classical myth,

radio cegeste presentation at critical-digital-matter, the 5th Aotearoa Digital Arts symposium

2009-07-05T11:16:00.035+12:00

RADIO CEGESTE short presentation for the 5th ADA Symposium, 28 June 2009 --- apologies to Zita for also doing exactly what she suggested to presenters not to do, and bringing my own laptop.... ...hi, I’m Sally Ann McIntyre. In the time permitting I’m going to present a brief overview of - and some associated thoughts around - a performance I did

wunderkammeren, strings and static...

2009-07-04T13:18:00.046+12:00

the evening of the 3rd of July saw me embarking on further collaborative sonic explorations with Black Boned Angel guitarist, Stumps drummer, Sandoz Lab Technicians multi-instrumentalist and general improv polymath James Kirk. taking the opportunity, while i was in Wellington, to build on some investigations begun in Dunedin at Lines of Flight last May, we began to clarify a method around the

"white and aimless signals" : icecast to free103point9's Noise! festival at the Ontological Hysteric Theater, Manhattan

2009-06-26T15:53:00.037+12:00

The 26th of June was a rainy Friday in New Zealand's capital city, and the aether was filled with reports of Michael Jackson's death (at 11am that day, NZ time), as I prepared a 2pm radio cegeste transmission to the other side of the globe from a lecture theatre at Victoria University of Wellington's school of architecture and design.My half hour set opened the second night of New York state

radio cegeste with Motoko Kikkawa at NONE

2009-06-21T18:31:00.023+12:00

the first public unveiling of the violin / radio duo with Mo Kikkawa on the 20th of June came at the end of my two month stay in Dunedin, as the closing act of a gig which umbrellaed a variety of new combinations of artists from NONE's dynamic, vibrant improvised music community.i've posted the second part, or more correctly the 'encore', herea video of the first part of the performance by Edie

Dunedin winter DIY

2009-06-21T12:10:00.010+12:00

DIY preamp building on the coldest night of the year... many thanks to electronics wunderkind Nigel Bunn for his inventive circuit bendings...

"rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined...." : residual vistas : alexandra bridge, lake te anau, queenstown

2009-06-21T06:39:00.025+12:00

residual vistas, imaginary landscapes: three undated hand coloured framed photographs found in opshop on St Andrews St, Dunedin, June 2009"My working hypothesis was that any reasonably long memory - like every collection - is more structured than it seems at first. I think that a collection of photographs, taken apparently at random, or postcards, chosen on the spur of the

'in morning, reverberant'*

2009-06-14T04:42:00.004+12:00

in morning, reverberant "The memory of a precise colour in the street bounces back on another country, another distance - endlessly." - Chris Marker, Sans Soleil as a day unfolds silently and very fast. as a dawn colour flooding in the lesser lamps and overtaken. as a boundary of lit shards breaking in radial lines opening to graph the bay and further it. as a creeping

owls do cry : field recordings in the grounds of seacliff asylum, dunedin

2009-06-10T18:51:00.011+12:00

a field trip to the grounds of the old seacliff hospital on the outskirts of dunedin produced some recordings of local birdlife, and associated reflections on Janet Frame's history on site during the most troubling period of the writer's life. Her first short story collection The Lagoon and Other Stories was published while she was a patient – advance copies arrived on 4 March 1952. Nine months

Kikkawa/McIntyre/Noyes

2009-06-06T19:55:00.006+12:00

the fertile creative laboratories of Dunedin's NONE community continue to provide ample avenues for collaboration, and opportunities to test out the creative instrumental potential of transmission art as one blip on the experimental music spectrum. An improvisatory exercise with violinist Motoko Kikkawa and percussionist Lee Noyes on June 6 lasted for over two hours. This was the first time i'd

string chamber static...

2009-06-04T19:49:00.016+12:00

collaborative improvisational activities with Japanese born, Dunedin based violinist Motoko Kikkawa, involving transmitter, hand held radios, violin, and voice are proving fertile ground, and bouncing fruitfully off my solo 'bowed airwaves' violin/radio experiments. As with the latter, I am finding with this as yet unnamed duo that the tonal similarities between violin and radio static, and/or

MacKinnon/McIntyre/Noyes

2009-05-31T14:38:00.008+12:00

a collaborative improvisation session on the afternoon of May 30th at NONE with Lee Noyes and Alex MacKinnon produced a 55min recording, an excerpt of which Lee considered strong enough to post to his blog on NetNewMusic, calling it 'Art, I see you Lately in your Energy', herehe had this to say about it:-----A new track:10:22.402min excerpt from 55min improvisation recorded 30 May 2009.

the regent theatre 24hour booksale

2009-05-15T12:30:00.020+12:00

the regent theatre 24 hour booksale is a bit of an institution in Dunedin. set in the grand environs of the centrally located old proscenium palace, it seems like the whole city comes out for the event. the live music played here in the past has included such under-appreciated milestones as the set by Alastair Galbraith committed to tape and released by Bruce Russell on Xpressway in 1987 as side

last gasp of the DJ, Lines of Flight 2009

2009-05-15T12:12:00.015+12:00

I was offered an impromptu DJ slot at the legendary Dunedin experimental music festival Lines of Flight on Friday, filling in for Peter Kirk, who hosts the experimental radio show A'sides for Betaville, which I have been sporadically involved with since its beginnings in late 2007 on Lyttelton's independent broadcast station Volcano 88:5FM.Despite being currently fairly uninterested in live DJing

imaginary media / the legacy of professor robert jack

2009-05-11T01:34:00.031+12:00

In the “Second Introduction to an Archaeology of Imaginary Media,” Eric Kluitenberg writes that one of the tasks of the discipline of media archaeology is to scour the historical archive – “stories, drawings, prints, films, songs, advertisements or quasi-philosophical imaginaries” – for the utopian dreams of potential or possible media forms that might “compensate for the inherent flaws and

environmental radio : radio d' Oiseaux

2009-05-11T01:23:00.027+12:00

radio d'Oiseaux is a solar powered radio station for New Zealand native birds. Currently a fieldwork project, it will eventually manifest as series of radio cegeste site specific performances.as an "environmental radio" and conceptual media project, radio d'Oiseaux looks at the links between transmission, locality and territory. as a sound-site, the birdsong is a place of

repetition and difference

2009-04-27T04:38:00.012+12:00

my arrival back in Christchurch to witness the final performance of local experimental supergroup Grunge Genesis in the week noise guitarist, G'n'G member and amateur ethnomusicologist Richard Neave was preparing to leave the country for another Orientalist foray also produced a subsequent flurry [Apr 18-25] of last-minute home recording sessions, a concentrated creative space and an accompanying

(species of spaces, 00:1)*

2009-03-22T06:45:00.009+13:00

a radio cegeste programme was performed / transmitted as a 5min acousmatic / radiophonic event score, as part of the marsupial gallery project PRANK ETUDES WRONG PETCHERA KTCUTCHHA, at Maca’s burger bar, High Street, Christchurch, Saturday 21 March 2009, 8pm-9pm. transmitted material was comprised of 8 discrete 5min field recordings collected while doing the rounds of Christchurch’s gallery

radio free NONE / the book of margins

2009-02-12T19:49:00.009+13:00

an improvisatory radio cegeste broadcast was recorded on the afternoon of the 11th of February, in the main gallery of NONE, at 24 Stafford street, Dunedin. For just over an hour, my transmissions were channelled through the instruments, bodies and sensibilities of None denziens and multitalented improvisers Alex MacKinnon, Toki Wilson, and Edwina Stevens.For most of this time, the Mini FM

McIntyre/MacKinnon/Bunn/Gorman

2009-02-02T17:11:00.004+13:00

a half-hour excerpt of Pete Gorman's video documentation of an improvised radiophonic / lo-fi electronic / sound-light translation soundramble on Sunday 1st February, 2009, at NONE, Dunedin, with input as listed from: Sally McIntyre – Radiophonics Alex MacKinnon - Circuit-bent devices Nigel Bunn - Hand-made light controlled synth unit Pete Gorman - Hand-made quadtrature

2009-01-31T07:52:00.001+13:00

For the exhibition and performance event Oh9 at None studios, 24 Stafford St, Dunedin, radio cegeste created a radio program as a localised homage to Stafford Street's grass-roots warehouse culture, reflecting on Dunedin's long history of underground artist run spaces and associated public and private environments as facilitative of experimental and improvised music, and a personal history as an

radiophonics and noise in the Cannan Downs ambient zone

2009-01-02T20:13:00.002+13:00

radio cegeste played to a clearing of trees and a smattering of listeners at sundown on New Years day in the Ambient zone at the Cannan Downs music festival, experimenting with layering mobile, small scale lo-fi radiophonics with the sounds of distant large PA systems belting out electronic beats, the occasional sounds of wandering danceparty hedonists, and the area's intricate natural soundscape

radio cegeste at Chicks Hotel, Dunedin

2008-12-13T06:51:00.008+13:00

the inaugural radio cegeste live micro radio performance on 12th Dec 2008 involved creating a site-specific radio programme for the iconic, historically notorious Chicks Hotel, in Port Chalmers, Dunedin. a playlist of environmental and anecdotal field recordings collected around the Port Chalmers area within 24 hours of broadcast were played back via itunes, handmade Mini FM transmitter and

Orson Welles' War of the Worlds 70th anniversary broadcast

2008-10-30T21:33:00.007+13:00

with the help of of Plains FM programme director Petal Largie, I re-broadcast Orson Welles' classic elaborate Halloween prank and seminal intervention into radio space on the evening of its 70th anniversary, at 10:30pm on the night of Thursday October 30, 2008.the original radio play is archived in its entirety on the website of its umbrella broadcast series, Mercury Theatre on the Air, here this

Adrian Hall - Line Drawings 1971, at the High Street Project

2008-10-16T14:45:00.005+13:00

my chance 'discovery' of a folder of mostly unexhibited drawings from the 1970s, while on a social visit to the home of the artist over a year before, eventually bore fruit in the show Adrian Hall - Line Drawings 1971, exhibited at the High Street Project, Christchurch, 15 Oct - 1 Nov, 2008. the catalogue essay is below. it can also be read on the HSP's blog site here.an interview with the

radio acoustic

2008-09-17T19:45:00.017+12:00

under the Borderline Ballroom banner, I organised a special live radiophonic simulcast from iconic Lyttelton venue The Wunderbar, via local independent radio station Volcano Radio 88:5FM. both I and the artists were interviewed about the initiative by Sage Forest for The Music Mix, a programme on Radio New Zealand, some mention of which can possibly still be found hereA'sides for Betaville's

Tao Wells' THE SILENCE of NOT BEING FAMOUS, LISTEN

2008-09-17T19:34:00.008+12:00

as part of Tao Wells' exhibition Art Aristocracy at Christchurch artist-run space the High Street Project (renamed 'The National Gallery' for the show's duration), the artist staged a one night performance with the above title, what he called "the debut of a new visual score for the playing of volume", in which radio cegeste was one of two artists invited to contribute a sound piece. I put

Kim Pieters' 'Wings Caught in the Tears of The Pool', at Bowen Galleries

2008-09-09T15:23:00.005+12:00

Dunedin painter Kim Pieters' show of new works Wings Caught in the Tears of The Pool was exhibited at Bowen Galleries, Wellington, from 8 - 27 September 2008. all of the paintings' titles were taken by Kim from poems written by me, and exhibited with an appropriately non-explicatory catalogue text I wrote for the show. Documentation of the works is viewable on the Bowen's site here -------------

NZ Experimental Film post-Lye at the Otherfilm Festival, Brisbane

2007-11-18T18:09:00.006+13:00

i was invited to give a talk on New Zealand experimental film after Len Lye to the assembled guests of the Otherfilm experimental and expanded film festival in Brisbane, run by the Otherfilm collective (Sally Golding, Joel Stern and Danni Zuvela), on the 17th November 2007. Otherfilm's focus is on the medium of celluloid, in its materiality, history, and the complex and multivariant use by

'jeanne d'arc / acousmatics of a beach, repeating'*

2007-09-22T03:55:00.012+12:00

small unpicked signal sounding among a whiteness of gulls. almost inaudible as (a smile?) as wind noise, a relation to skin that shifts to recall its wall as a doorway this body’s openness closed around its own (function) fiction of warmth the small, mammalian sun which declares an unbroken circle of blood to the line of cold sharpening the grasses with frost & climbing into it’s

'a gap, invisible in the photograph (lover's leap)', and 'field notes for love poems' (0:2)*

2007-05-11T20:29:00.008+12:00

a gap, invisible in the photograph (lover's leap) to hear imperfectlythis bay : opening as grey lines, as colourless light and wide shifting in the body axis : keying an actual sun in forests' verticality : in solar re verberations before such rushed suddenness of field : set the devouring o- zone depleted opening in myriad capillaries, dilating light & wide : at the abandoned port,

Flickering Birds

2007-05-11T14:03:00.017+12:00

[initially conceived as a stylistic exercise in combing an inconsequential moment of time for its detail, treating this moment somewhat photographically as a 'zooming' from a wide to a close focus, while inevitably encountering the hubris of all that cannot be captured and the psychological biases and blind spots of the process of obsessive observation, flickering birds, as it eventually came to

navigation

2006-10-11T16:06:00.003+13:00

'These are pure optical or sound situations in which the character does not know how to respond, abandoned spaces in which he ceases to experience and act so that he enters into flight, goes on a trip, vaguely indifferent to what happens to him, undecided as to what must be done. I do not use pseudonyms, for there is already too much about a name which is fictional. Let’s

2006-08-12T18:19:00.011+12:00

an interview with British-born, then Christchurch-based painter and musician Kit Lawrence was published in Zing Magazine in August 2006.Kit's artist page at Michael Lett galleries is herehis website is here---DANCING ABOUT ARCHITECTURE: KIT LAWRENCE IN CONVERSATION WITH SALLY ANN MCINTYRESM: Kit, you've done many things since moving from London to New Zealand two years ago. You started two bands

SCANZ residency 2006

2006-07-16T02:30:00.001+12:00

the 2006 SCANZ residency and symposium was held at the Western Institute at Taranaki, and from Tuesday July 11th until Sunday July 16th I was there blogging its activities. the July archives of residency weblog the Observatory can be read here

transmitter building, Radio Kiosk, rotate your state

2006-06-25T19:00:00.012+12:00

a Mini FM transmitter building workshop, hosted by The Physics Room Contemporary Art Space in Christchurch on the 5th of June 2006, with New Zealand media artist Adam Hyde at the helm, was organised to coincide with the making of a Mini FM radio station, Radio Kiosk, curated for a public art site in Central Christchurch by the collaborative media and sound art duo ((ethermap (Zita Joyce and Adam

Artbash review of Simon Denny's 'Old Things' at Michael Lett

2006-03-22T13:51:00.004+12:00

for a while I was posting sporadic comments to the Artbash site, under the name of IBID. this was a the most substantial, and was less a response to John Hurrell's review of Simon Denny's show than an offhand re-situating of some of the gathered fragments of response to shows penned while wandering around Auckland after my internship at the Govett Brewster...the original link is here---some notes

drifting observatories

2006-02-14T17:43:00.005+13:00

Margot Didsbury and Fiona Connor's mobile vernacular photographic project Drifting Observatories included a catalogue essay by me, reprinted below.there's an online record of the catalogue here"The Drifting observatories project, is an investigation on a global scale at an individual level. 15 disposable cameras were sent to a mix of people in America, Antarctica, Australia, Brazil, China,

'from Mini FM to Hacktivists : a guide to Art and Activism' and Mini FM building workshops led by Tetsuo Kogawa at the Govett Brewster Art Gallery

2006-02-05T19:33:00.012+13:00

The Govett Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth's recently arrived curator of Contemporary Art, formerly NYC based art critic Mercedes Vicente, put together an exhibition entitled from Mini FM to Hacktivists: a Guide to Art and Activism as her first contribution to the gallery's programmes. Drawing somewhat on lines of thinking around pre-internet prehistories, in the way so wonderfully set out

i will make time to write a response to a show

2005-12-16T10:10:00.007+13:00

[a catalogue text written for an exhibition at SHOW, an artist-run project space in central Wellington run from 2004-2006 by Jenny Gillam and Eugene Hansen. SHOW was described as having "a focus on exhibiting projects by artists who have established experimental, conceptual and research-based practices". The instructions for the act of writing this particular text were that it must be completed

2005-07-11T19:06:00.004+12:00

the 9th issue of Alison Croggon's online literary magazine, Masthead, included five poems of mine. you can read them hereAlison posted some evocative words about the process of putting the issue together to the [Poneme] list: "I am always surprised by how each issue evolves its own conversation. Thisseems to occur despite me, rather than with deliberate intent. This issue'sabiding themes seem

2005-04-25T14:50:00.002+12:00

I wrote a review of a group show called Breathing Space, shown at the Physics Room, for Christchurch's Presto magazine... ----breathing spaceBekah Carran, Regan Gentry, Shaun Gladwell, Maddie Leach, Nathan Thompson, P. WestbourneThe Physics Room, 6 th - 30 th AprilWandering into a Christchurch winter sans car, my thoughts quickly turn to my umbrella, a svelte and slender creature from the early

2004-10-25T14:11:00.003+13:00

I reviewed the show Ayeion Thales, by James Ormond Wallace, a retrospective show put together by James' friends Nathan Poiho, Robert Hood and Paul Johns, for Presto magazine. a trust has recently been set up in James' name here--- James Ormond Wallace Ayeion Thales SoFA Gallery 19 Oct – 28 Nov 2004 Australian broadcaster and writer Robert Dessaix advises potential

projekt# video art show at the physics room

2004-03-11T18:03:00.004+13:00

a catalogue essay for the video art compilation Projekt# appeared in the Physics Room Annual 2004it is online here---Projekt#.Essay by Sally Ann McIntyreDick Higgins, Fluxus artist and writer, wrote in 1966 that ‘much of the best work being produced today seems to fall between media’. No real coincidence, then, that while having origins in the filmic and radiophonic technological developments of

Audible

2003-08-21T02:53:00.001+12:00

I curated the audio art exhibition Audible for the Physics Room Contemporary Art Space. Artists were Rachel Shearer, Richard Francis, John McCallum, Phil Dadson, r a d i o q u a l i a, and Wendyhouse. A sound show without spatial or imagistic works, the 'listening booths' were especially comissioned for the exhibition, and designed by Valentin Tinc. Audible's works were also broadcast as a

notes for a coastline

2003-05-21T10:17:00.012+12:00

quite soon after meeting documentary filmmaker Zoe Roland on her move from Auckland to Christchurch, she commissioned me to write the script for a short experimental film she was working on, based around the 'bach' (holiday house) culture of the South Island seaside settlement of Gore Bay. This film eventually became Notes for a Coastline, which drew on documentary, oral history, B&W 16mm shot on

DREAMING OF A HAND PAINTED PARADISE - VIEWS OF THE FLAT CITY

2002-05-14T00:09:00.005+12:00

[i was commissioned in late 2002 by Tessa Giblin of the Gridlocked project to write a piece on Christchurch public art, which was published on the project's website with a series of images by Steve Kerr, and is now archived here. further art writing for Gridlocked is here] DREAMING OF A HAND PAINTED PARADISE - VIEWS OF THE FLAT CITY by Sally Ann McIntyreall photographs by

the Forbidden Room

2001-05-21T09:35:00.006+12:00

discussions with devised / media theatre group The Clinic (who were, at the time, much esteemed theatre critics on the Arts radio show Mag:net, which I was hosting on RDU98:3FM) about a project involving their workshopping my writing eventually led to the three act piece The Forbidden Room. This piece was performed at Enjoy Gallery, Wellington, as part of the Wellington Fringe Festival (where it

Otomo Yoshihide in Christchurch

2000-03-10T17:50:00.008+13:00

i interviewed Japanese experimental musician Otomo Yoshihide for radio station RDU98:3FM, during the Christchurch leg of his tour of New Zealand, just before the performance he gave in the foyer space of the Robert McDougall Art Gallery. the interview, eventually transcribed for the Physics Room Contemporary Art Space's journal, Log Illustrated, is archived here, and also made its way here.