Performance/Art: Mark Amery, Emma Bugden, Sue Gallagher, Tracey Collins in conversation with Ariane Craig-Smith
What is the role of performance in visual art? Performance art
and performing arts - what is the difference?
The re-staging of Jim Allen's seminal 1974 performance series Contact signals the
strong presence of performance as both theme and method across
several Festival exhibitions.
These include performance design survey Fly-Tower
and group show Alicia
Frankovich / Laresa Kosloff / Ruth Proctor at Starkwhite,
bringing together the work of three international artists who
address the relationship between performative body and artwork
object.
Curator, art writer and former Playmarket Director Mark Amery,
ARTSPACE Director Emma Bugden and the creative team behind
Fly-Tower, Sue Gallagher and Tracey Collins join Festival
Visual Arts Manager, Ariane Craig-Smith to discuss the relationship
between performance and art.
12.30pm - 1.30pm, Wednesday 9 March.
Pacific Crystal Palace Spiegeltent in Festival
Garden.
PHOTOGRAPH: Sam Trubridge and The
Playground NZ Ltd., Sleep/Wake, (2009), Auckland Town
Hall, Auckland Arts Festival (2009), Image Credit: Richard
Robinson, Developed in collaboration with sleep scientist Philippa
Gander from the Sleep/Wake Research Centre, Massey University.