a suite of transmission works collected from the last few years' somewhat consistent low-level preoccupation with narrowcast radio and local seismic activity are to be included in Simulcast, a group exhibition of radio works running at the Audio Foundation's Auckland space from the 7th - 30th of March, also including work by Auckland artists Ivan Masic and Jay Hollows, and a 'radio wormhole' linking Auckland to central Christchurch, a sonic transfer of the everydayness of each locale opened up for the month's duration by Zita Joyce.
at the edges of whatever can be attended to : ordinary sky over
orderly macrocarpa : the lack of perceptive limit, over
this unwalled line of sea stones, as the ear : stacked
against the unending lack of a word, or line of words, is
the edge of whatever can be languaged : they are not (quite)
bricks, & the sky’s lending library, full of wrecked systems (persistent
repetition of cirrus phrases : seeming to fan out from something
prior, indecipherable), admits its gaps without arrogance,
shelves this eye’s openness at mid- air’s deaf
point : to browse, half-Whitmanic, half-shattered
along these introduced avenues, in the green exuberance
this gift is : its space of not-knowing is a mouth :
is, the misc. silences (lengthened, as breath) between
the noon shadows, the memes of stated trees. but whose freedom is it? it is a sky
i do not always know what to do with (how to deal with : as the ship’s
graveyard knows implicitly : the quiet rust into oblivion
within the day’s greater attention, as metal flakes
restate themselves to the ocean’s equal blood-taste)
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[track created 2nd August 2010. location recordings made June 2009, in the grounds of seacliff asylum, dunedin. violin scratch-drone recorded in dunedin in June 2009, edited in wellington August 2010. the poem 'quail island / the sirens have been remaindered', also written in the first week of August, 2010.]
[for janet frame. with thanks to edie stevens and markus gradwohl]
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 series of programmes for Radio New Zealand's Revolutions Per Minute programme, hosted by Matthew Leonard.
the physics room site has a record of the show here
