PARNELL ROAD Parnell INK. A curated programme of 10
street-based art projects will occupy the length of Parnell Rd.
Featuring performance, moving image, installation, and outdoor
painting productions from Michelle Beattie, Dagmar
Andres-Dahmen, Kevin Capon, Meighan Ellis, Yolunda Hickman, Shannon
Novak, Michelle Osborne, Clinton Phillips, Alissa West and
The Cut Collective.
12 March, 6:00pm - 11:00pm
Parnell Road
parnell.net.nz/whitenight
Performance work includes The Fieldman Academy of
Love and Kindness: How to make a tissue parcel from
Michelle Osborne who takes a participative experiment to the street
to involve people in a communal act of labour and peaceful
resistance (7.30-9.30pm). Clinton Phillips' 2m wide (and fully
playable) polystyrene Violin Bridge will provide on-going
performances during the evening with passing viewers able to
participate in the sound-making.
One of the most ambitious projects will be the highly-visible a
moving image projection After Mere Kururangi from esteemed
artist / photographer Kevin Capon. The work takes its form from an
ancient Maori meditation in Poi, which is projected to a monumental
size on the side of a building; like a ghost, it appears only for
the duration of White Night, disappearing at sunrise the next day.
A more intimate alley-way viewing experience will be Meighan
Elliis' confronting DVD projection The Absent, which
creates an uncomfortable, voyeuristic view into portrait
sitting.
Students and alumni of Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design
(Parnell's resident art school) occupy dedicated spaces on Parnell
Road. The unique forum of the street provokes fresh and unexpected
responses to the work of these emerging artists. Large-scale
installations will be featured from Yolunda Hickman (with
Moon), Alissa West (with Lions) and Dagmar
Andres-Dahmen (with an as-yet untitled site-specific installation).
Moving from the monumental to the miniscule, Michelle Beattie's
Landscape provides a portal to a Lilliputian world in
which a single viewer can loom over her constructed tableau.
The Cut Collective - six like-minded individuals with varied
personal histories in art making - will also paint a production
directly on site on Parnell Rd. Cut Collective's aim for the
project is to develop a new aesthetic direction for the collective
that trades on flat, bold colour and iconic references to elements
recalled from childhood.
Parnell INK was Curated by Jane Sutherland and Kylie Sanderson.
Visit the web page www.parnell.net.nz/whitenight for more
information, updates and a full location guide.
Image credit: Michelle Osborne 'The
Fieldman Academy of Love and Kindness. How to make a tissue
parcel.