The Audio Foundation is pleased to announce its second Artist in Residence for 2016: Fantasing: a collective of Gemma Syme, Bek Coogan, Sarah Jane Parton and Claire Harris

Fantasing have performed live as a band, recorded and released an EP on vinyl, and curated art programs and live shows. The group functions as an intersectional forum for the four members to engage with the crossovers of art, music, performance and life. Sarah Jane Parton is an artist, writer and a lecturer at Massey University, Wellington. Her work has been described as “beautifully nuanced, tender solo portraits that cleverly play off and askew popular role modelling of women in film”. Often taking on the persona of the ingenue, Parton frequently references her childhood, adolescence and Cook Island background. Gemma Syme’s time-based works take a cheeky attitude towards ideas of gender and sexuality and play along the fine line between objectification and empowerment. Claire Harris is moving-image artist working in live and web-based performance. Through rituals of fan adoration and attempted therapeutic projects, her work investigates devotion, endurance, humour, bodily experience and the performance of the self. Bek Coogan is constantly renewing her vows to the cosmos. She has performed and exhibited nationally and internationally as a solo artist (Sheville, Oona Verse) and in a number of bands (Cortina, Full Fucking Moon).

The Audio Foundation is excited to host Fantasing and looks forward to enabling new work and research.

For further information or to contact the artists please email admin@audiofoundation.org.nz

This programme is generously supported by the Auckland City Council Regional Arts and Culture Grants Programme, and gives an artist or group of artists the opportunity to work and develop projects over a two week period at the Audio Foundation in Auckland.