Please join us to celebrate the opening of Ain’t you wanna cut it out? Don’t you wanna wait around?, a new exhibition by stalwart of sonic arts landscape, Beth Dawson (aka Ducklingmonster), which unfurls across the living spaces of the Audio Foundation.
In this exhibition, Ducklingmonster’s expanded actions of drawing, sound and video spill into moments of performance and improvisation, densely layering materials and media drawn from overlapping spaces of labour and leisure.
Opens: Thursday 7 March, 5.30pm, with refreshments by Liberty Breweries
Hours: 12 – 4pm, Tuesday – Saturday
Closes: Saturday 30 March
Special events
Artist walk and conversation with Benjamin Ord
Thursday 14 March, 12pm beginning @ Audio Foundation ending @ RM
Live performances by Ducklingmonster, Kraus, Pumice and Indira Neville
Friday 22 March, 8pm @ Audio Foundation
Artist bio:
Beth Dawson aka Ducklingmonster is an audio-visual artist from Onehunga, Auckland | Tāmaki Makaurau, New Zealand | Aotearoa.
She investigates out-of-bounds areas through a range of practices with a focus on community empowerment. Publicly her work has predominantly been in experimental sound performance, most notably in the group The Futurians, and solo as Ducklingmonster. Blatantly and happily ignoring the restrictions of media she works in sound, ink, video, broken electronics, and whatever else takes her fancy. She is a founding member of the art collective Uniform. In 2022 she completed a Masters Of Visual Art at AUT receiving the Head of School award for her practice-based research into elevating and valuing that which is temporary, collective, amateur, and improvised.
She is currently working toward a PhD at AUT that will continue this research.