Please join us at Audio Foundation for an informal discussion with BBQ and beer.

AF will provide some beer, tomato sauce and bread. BYO sausages (If it rains we will still use the porch and performance space)

6 PM with discussion commencing around 6.15

Responding to the DJN performance presented at the “Seeing and Hearing” exhibition opening on Sat 4th Feb and moderated by Stephen Bain, participants John Hurrell, Kristian Larsen and Andrew Clifford will have a discussion around the notions of performance in sound and other contexts.

Stephen Bain began his interest in live performance by way Architecture at Victoria University of Wellington (BBSc 1987 - School of Architecture), furthered by actor training at Toi Whakaari: The New Zealand Drama School (1990 - 1991). He appeared on stage and screen in numerous productions around New Zealand but was quickly attracted to the role of director and designer where he has done his most innovative work. His early productions combined documentary, spatial design and drama, receiving numerous commissions through Creative New Zealand (the NZ arts council) as well as critical acclaim and awards.
His current projects focus on the interface between performer and audience, choosing to create performance in primarily public spaces and most usually combining installation, live performance and audience interaction. Stephen has used unusual performance spaces like shop-windows, disused buildings and the natural environment, he has also been commissioned through local city councils to create performance works that question the relationship between public and private.

Kristian Larsen is an established choreographic performance artist and essayist with a vested interest in rigorous methods of improvisation, performance, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Operating from the self professed position of belonging to a privileged underclass of Western male artists, Larsen meshes an array of materials including movement, sound, and spoken text. Informed by a spectrum of activity that includes Western martial practices, movement and somatic disciplines, academic discourses, and stand up comedy, Larsen continues developing several areas of artistic practice continuously.

Andrew Clifford is a freelance writer and works as Curator and Acting Director at The University of Auckland's Centre for New Zealand Art, Research and Discovery, which administers the Gus Fisher Gallery and The University of Auckland Art Collection. He is currently a board member for the Audio Foundation and co-curated their international experimental music festival, Altmusic, from 2004 – 2007. Recent essays appear in books about Sean Kerr, Reuben Paterson, John Reynolds and New Zealand’s black fashion, and a chapter on invented instruments for Home, Land and Sea: Situating Music in Aotearoa. From 2002-2007 he produced programmes for Radio New Zealand, preceded by 10 years producing and presenting a variety of programmes for 95bFM, including Art on Air.

John Hurrell (b.1950) is a New Zealand art writer, artist and curator who lives in Auckland. Trained in Painting at the University of Canterbury in the early seventies, in the mid-eighties he was art critic for The Christchurch Press and in the mid-nineties the Curator at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth - then later the Curator of Art at the Waikato Museum.He now runs EyeContact, an online forum/ art review site with writers in most New Zealand cities. Besides that he writes from time to time for Australian Art Collector. Recent articles have been on Julia Morison, Fiona Connor and Richard Frater.

"Seeing and Hearing" @ AFHQ.
Feb 4th – 25th
Gallery Hours: Tues - Sat. 12 - 4
Artist and musician DJN presents a selection of drawing, photography and sculpture exploring music, sound production, language and memory.
Suggesting sound in ways other than the sonic.
Stimulating thoughts of sound in the mind of the viewer.Can the experience of listening be translated into visual terms?

2012 sees DJN enter his fourth decade of art and music making.
He has exhibited in NZ, UK and Europe whilst producing/ performing music with DRONE from the mid eighties.
Current projects include a solo album ‘Comm One’, and the debut album from Transcendental Learning Collective.

http://djn.co.nz/