Kerry Ann Lee and Forrest Lau Zine Coop at BOOKED: Hong Kong Art Book Fair 2020. The following is an abridged version of a conversation between Kerry Ann Lee from Red Letter Distro (Aotearoa, NZ) and Forrest Lau from Zine…
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Drawing Interstices
Phil Sawdon Phil Sawdon, I am veiled, 2020, Ink on paper. Image courtesy of the artist. Phil Sawdon, Evaporation, 2020, Pen and ink on paper. Image courtesy of the artist. The Fictional Museum of Drawing still subterranean in a poor…
Quaranzine
Marc Fischer By Friday, March 13, 2020 I felt the full importance of staying home to slow the spread of Coronavirus, and I began to shelter in place in Chicago. Aside from trips for groceries, medication, and the post office,…
Te Moana Meridian
Sam Hamilton Te Moana Meridian is an interdisciplinary project directed by Aotearoa / US artist sam tam ham (Sam Hamilton) in collaboration with Dr. Tru Paraha, Holland Andrews, Mere Tokorahi Boynton, Vaimaila Urale, Clara Chon, a 40-piece youth choir, and…
Mottoes
Jon Field Jon Field, Mottoes 1 – 8, 2020, digital images. Images courtesy Jon Field. In the early seventeenth century, Lady Anne Bacon Drury of Suffolk, England, created a tiny painted room in her massive country house consisting of panels…
On TK Returning to Rotorua
Balamohan Shingade Photo by James Tapsell-Kururangi, 2019. This was the invitation to artists and others for an exhibition at St Paul St Gallery from July 12th to October 18th last year: Let us inhabit How to Live Together as an…
Virtual Eat Chocopie Together Taking a Bite for Global Peace
Mina Cheon The five Chocopie designs by the artist Mina Cheon: EAT, LOVE, PEACE, SHARE, UNITE. “Eat Chocopie Together is about art promoting peace and healing. As the Chocopie has become the cultural symbol of inter-Korean unification efforts, from the…
Negative Mass
Jessica Chubb and Jonathan Kay Jonathan Kay, Negative Mass, 140kg blocks of ice, (2 tonnes ice in total), Takutai Square, Britomart, Auckland. There is a solid stillness to ice. Ice molecules are latticed together in a patterned and steadfast way.…
Bridal Rumour
André Guiboux Bridal Rumor, 2013. All images by and courtesy the artist. Eight staged photographs with remunerated “sex workers”. (Extracts) Wear out any power of the images, with their reversal, of the marginal and peripheral through a loving imaging, both…
Columbus is Dead: Long Live Duchamp!
THEMM! 3 Digital Photomontages, Sizes Variable: June 2020: THEMM! “I threw the bottle rack and the urinal into their faces as a challenge and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty,” so Marcel Duchamp lamented in a letter to…